JAYCALL the Official Newsletter of the Raleigh Junior Chamber of Commerce Serving the Community Since 1932 OCTOBER 2008 F Is for Fall
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THE RALEIGH JAYCEES JAYCALL The Official Newsletter of the Raleigh Junior Chamber of Commerce Serving the Community Since 1932 OCTOBER 2008 F is for Fall... By: Melissa Taylor 2008 Ways and Means VP P.O. Box 20244 F is for...fall, fried food, fresh air, Raleigh, NC 27619 frights, friends, free fair admission… Office Location: Anyone who is anyone is going The Flagship Building to be out at the Turkey Shoot 4332 Bland Street Raleigh, NC 27609 and Haunted House this month! Tel: (919) 713-0031 Perhaps you are like me and Fax: (919) 713-0032 start pulling out all of your black and orange clothes as soon as www.raleighjaycees.org October hits. The thought of scaring children and adults is thrilling and you can hardly wait for the Halloween parties to start. Then you need to In this Issue: join us at the Haunted House from October 17-November 1st. It promises to be a chilling Chapter Survey 2 experience filled with frights, friends and food. There are big roles, small roles, roles in the dark and roles when you never have to leave the light! Contact Laura Gelburd at Membership Corner 2 [email protected] and let her know which dates and times you are available. Waus and Means is HOT! 3 If the thought of scaring people scares you, then you might prefer crisp fall weather, fried Blackout Party 2008 3 food and free fair admissions. When you volunteer at the Turkey Shoot at the State Fair you will not only be spending time with your Jaycee friends, but you can experience every USJC National Convention 4 bit of the fair. There are plenty of ways to help out at the Turkey Shoot from October 16- th State Director Report 4 26 . Contact Lisa Rowland at [email protected] and let her know which dates and times you are available. ID Update 5 Fall is also for Free, Fun, Fall Party!!!! That’s right, work any two or more operations shifts Mutt Strutt 5 at the Turkey Shoot and Haunted House and you will be invited to the Blackout Party! Plus Goodfellows Chaperones 5 for every shift you work you will earn points towards raffle prizes. Earn 100+ points and get an exclusive VIP invite to the pre-party! Winter Excursion 2009 6 Jaycee Spotlight Jennifer Trivette 8 Jaycall Art Gallery 8 Jaycee Spotlight Andy Samaniego 9 Project Chair Tips 9 What’s Happening! 9 Jaycee Week Press Release 10 Calendar of Events 11 Board of Directors 12 1 Chapter Fall is My Survey Favorite Season... By: Paul Hoover, IV By: Ali Houchin Raleigh Jaycees Membership Development President Vice President [email protected] [email protected] As you heard all about in the State of the Chapter meeting last It’s true. I have always loved the fall because it brings cooler month, our chapter and countless other civic groups are facing weather, beautiful scenery, the state fair and of course we a challenge. To continue to achieve the great things this chapter celebrate Halloween. Really, I was a serious fair junky while accomplishes, the organization must make sure we are working growing up in Raleigh and loved dressing up for Halloween; to meet the desires of our membership and the needs of our so when I joined the Jaycees, imagine my excitement that we changing community. participated in such a big way in both events! The social world around us is also changing rapidly. For the I am not going to talk you into working the Turkey Shoot and majority of our existence, our chapter communicated by snail the Haunted House…but to give you an idea of how much I mail and phone trees. Getting information out to all of our enjoy being a part of them I will refer to an earlier article I members could take days. Today, it can happen in seconds. wrote where 3 of my 9 favorite Jaycee moments involve our fall projects: What people hope to achieve and expect in an organization like ours is also changing. More and more social interactions are • Learning how to build an outhouse when truly you shouldn’t! now happening online. Eight years ago, I met the woman that Or laughing at the person who just covered the left side of was to be my wife online. At the time, dating someone from their body in black paint…as karma hits you and you step in the internet was considered to be borderline crazy. Her friends the same black paint. and family certainly seemed to think so and prepped her for • Getting into the fair for free to become a carnie for a day our meeting with warnings of “What if he is an axe murderer?” while you scream the safety speech to people who can’t focus Luckily for Sally, I turned out to be okay. Finally they came to because they’re high on funnel cake and deep-fried air. see that it is just the way things are headed in our society. Now • Losing…then (very important) finding people in the maze at online dating is not only common, entire social communities are the Haunted House. online. Have a great October and I hope to see you out! With all of the changes going on around us in our lives and in our rapidly growing community, we must take time to reevaluate the needs and desires of our membership. We want to make sure we are keeping up with the times. Please Help Welcome to our New Members… We need your help to make this happen. We have are working on a survey to find out what you want out of this organization. Jen Radzik, Tina Lewis, Maggie If you did one of these in the past 4 years, I have recently read O’Neill your thoughts. We have taken from those and come up with a more thorough review. This is a bit longer than ones you have seen in the past. Thank You to Our Renewing Members… To encourage you to participate and to thank you for doing something that is a great benefit to your chapter, we will be Dave Underhill, Dave Crutchfield, Alicia Nathison having a drawing for an IPOD nano. Please help your chapter and the incoming board by telling us what you want to see in this chapter. Happy Birthday to our October babies! Randall Keen, Erin Dale, Anna Mangum, Steve Ragland, Chip Bright, Chris Hardee, Katy Green, Ali Houchin, Rick Suter, Will Stanley, Danny Miller, Karen Ray, Nader Sreyo, Robin McCall, Korey Kubacki, Sue Scott, Deidre Albert, Christine Bauer, Sonya Shearon, Beth Worsley, Dave Gill 2 Ways and Means is Sizzling HOT! Blackout Party 2008 By: Melissa Taylor By: Leah Breckstein Ways and Means 2008 Blackout Party Chair Vice President [email protected] Blackout Party – November 15th – Location TBD That’s right, the weather outside may be cooling off, but We’re doing things a bit different this year. So please read all the Ways and Means area is on fire! We run many fabulous the way through. projects in our chapter, but a few make a really big impact and take a sizzling hot effort from our members. Thanks to You don’t have to earn a whopping 100 points to get into the the great success of PONY 2008, the proceeds made from this Blackout Party for free. No sir-ee! You only need to work two year’s Turkey Shoot and Haunted House will go to our Chapter’s operation shifts between the Turkey Shoot and the Haunted priority projects: Goodfellows, HOBY, Duke Comprehensive House to get in for FREE. That’s ANY two operation shifts of Cancer Center, Jaycee Burn Center, and The Boys and Girls your choice. It couldn’t be simpler. We’ve made it so simple Home at Lake Waccamaw. So gather your friends, come out this year, that the only way to get in is for FREE and the way and get involved! Here are just a few ways you can get involved to do that is by working two operation shifts. now: But wait, there’s more... Turkey Shoot at the NC State Fair – October 16th-26th: It’s time once again for The Raleigh Jaycee’s Turkey Shoot. The Have a significant other of friend that’s not a Jaycee that Turkey Shoot has been a part of the NC State fair for over 50 wants to attend? Any member can donate 2 operation shifts years. It is also one of the longest running and most popular they worked to a non-Jaycee to attend the Blackout Party. Jaycee projects each year. There are shifts everyday of the Better yet, they are welcome to volunteer and work two Fair weekdays, evenings and weekends. Remember, you get operation shifts on their own. free admission for the day that you work a shift. No experience is necessary and all volunteers will receive training on site. All But wait, there’s more... shifts can be found on the Jaycee Calendar. For every 10 points you earn, you’ll receive a raffle ticket Contact Lisa Rowland [email protected] at 919-270-9040 for fun and exciting prizes. You’ll even get to choose which if you are available to help! We will have signup sheets at all prizes you are interested in by placing your raffle ticket(s) GMMs in October. You can also view sign up sheets on Google into individual prize buckets. Point values are below. Spreadsheets by going to http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?k ey=pWlGKRot520BGYA2WJ5a9GA.