Saturday, September 20, 2014

Announcements

Upcoming Activities...

Wednesday, Sept 24th - Project Night at Jan Welling's 7:00 pm.  We will be making wreaths, see here (money is due Sunday 9/21). Or bring your own project and socialize with the other sisters.

         Saturday, Sept 27th General Women's 
Meeting  
See this invite 

Oct 4-5 General Conference

Wednesday, Oct 8 - Budget Class at Marty Rozeski's at 7:00 pm. The Maugers will be teaching.

Saturday, Oct 11th 
Super Service Day 
Quail building10:00-2:00. Lunch at noon  
Ages 8 and up are invited to attend. 
Nursery available from 10am - 12pm. 
Service activities include:
• Assembling hygiene kits to donate within our community.
• Making no-sew fleece blankets for Project Linus.
• Clipping expired coupons (up to 2 months expired or less) for military families overseas.
• A clothing swap where the leftover clothing will be donated to the Jeffco Action Center.
• Tie-dying t-shirts and collecting pillows for Overture, a program for the disabled.
• Sewing hats and scarves to be donated to Fitzmorris Elementary.
• Collecting canned food items for the Arvada Food Bank Backpack program.
• Decorating paper bags for Project Angel Heart.

Donation items we are in need of to make
Super SERVICE Saturday a SUCCESS!
Hancock fabrics in Wheat Ridge is having a 70% off sale right now, almost all fleeces including really cute prints are $3.30/yard. The sale ends Wednesday September 24th. JoAnn's is also having a sale, solid fleece for $5/yard.
• We need donations of 1 1/2 yards of fleece to make no-sew blankets for Project Linus
• We'll need donations of 1/3 yard of fabric to sew hats and scarves for Fitzmorris Elementary students.

Arvada Food Bank Backpack Program:
• Cereal bars, Oatmeal packs, Pop tarts, peanut butter, canned chicken, canned tuna, mac and cheese, canned fruit, canned corn, granola bars, fruit cups, pudding cups, raisin packs, microwave popcorn.
• We're also collecting Plastic Grocery Sacks (ie, King Soopers, Walmart, Target bags) for backpack program.

• We'll be assembling hygiene and need travels size/or small sizes of:
toothpaste, toothbrush, mouthwash, lotion, shampoo, conditioner, body wash, bar soap.

• Gently Used Clothing (all gender and ages) for the Clothing Swap. Leftovers will be donated.

• We're collecting coupons from the Sunday inserts (SmartSource, Red Plum and P&G). Coupons should be no more than 2 months expired. They'll be donated to American Legions and will go to military families.

• XL Plain White T-Shirts for tie-dying for Overture residents.

• New, unused pillows to be donated to Overture residents along with the pillowcases that 3rd Ward RS sewed back in April.

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