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Friday, September 10, 2010
Wow for Y-Teens Registrations!!
The Y-Teens membership registrations for this school year are coming in! If you haven't done so already, fill out your Y-Teens Membership Registration Form Online to get:
Saturday, September 4, 2010
Sign Up for Sunday!!
The first Y-Teens Sunday of the Fall is next weekend!! We'll be making plans for the year and Tracia Cloud is going to come and give us tips on stress & time Management! Email Mary Alice Varga at mvarga@ywcaknox.com to sign up!
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| Tracia Cloud |
Thursday, September 2, 2010
Volunteer Opportunity with the Special Olympics
Note from the East Tennessee Special Olympics Coordinator...
I'm looking for at least 2 people to help referee the Special Olympics Regional Flag Football event on Sept. 11 at Mayor Bob Leonard Park in Farragut. We have 9 high school and adult teams registered to participate. The entire event will be from 10:00 am - approximately 3:00 pm. If someone is only available in the morning or afternoon we could use you, but I am particularly looking for assistance in the afternoon. Since flag football is a new sport for Special Olympics, the morning will be conducted as scrimmages with the emphasis on training rather than competition. In the afternoon, teams will be divisioned and play actual games.
We have a lead referee for each field but the expected assistance has not materialized. Even if you are not a referee but have played flag football, understand the general rules, and are willing to help out, I'd like to hear from you. If you haven't played flag football but understand football, can move up and down the field with the play, and are interested I'll send you the rules so you can look them over and decide if you can help.
Special Olympics plays 5 on 5 and uses a 40 x 25 yd. field, plus the end zones.
If you can help, please let me know. Even if you can't volunteer for the event, come out and support the athletes on September 11.
Terry
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Terry Brewer
East Tennessee Coordinator
Special Olympics Tennessee
2117 Cottage Row Lane, Knoxville, TN 37922
(865) 966-8286 (h)
(865) 604-1551 (c)
(865) 966-8254 (fax)
Terry Brewer
East Tennessee Coordinator
Special Olympics Tennessee
2117 Cottage Row Lane, Knoxville, TN 37922
(865) 966-8286 (h)
(865) 604-1551 (c)
(865) 966-8254 (fax)
Thursday, August 26, 2010
Be a Part of Big Read!
The YWCA Knoxville is excited to be participating again with The Big Read Program, a program of the National Endowment for the Arts to inspire more reading in our communities.
Over the years, Y-Teens have participated in The Big Read by reading the selected book and hosting Discussions, volunteering for events, etc. If you or your club or interested in being a part of The Big Read program, check out the YWCA Knoxville Big Read website and email Mary Alice Varga at mvarga@ywcaknox.com for more information and updates!
Over the years, Y-Teens have participated in The Big Read by reading the selected book and hosting Discussions, volunteering for events, etc. If you or your club or interested in being a part of The Big Read program, check out the YWCA Knoxville Big Read website and email Mary Alice Varga at mvarga@ywcaknox.com for more information and updates!
Tuesday, August 24, 2010
SCHOLARSHIP ANNOUNCEMENT
The Tennessee Economic Council on Women will offer six $1000 scholarship, two from each Grand Division of the state, in October of this year at the Tennessee Women's Economic Summit. Three of the Scholarships will be given to 2011 high school seniors and three will be given to women who are re-entering college. The guidelines and applications are online at www.womenseconomicfoundation.org.
Application deadline will be September 27, 2010. Questions should be addressed to tecscholarship@comcast.net.
Friday, August 20, 2010
Thanks to our Y-Teen Hostesses!!
Yay for Y-Teen Hostesses at the YWCA Tribute to Women event last night!
Wednesday, August 18, 2010
Craft Day at the YWCA!!
September 19th 3-6pm at the YWCA
Come spend Craft Day with the residents at the YWCA! There are several ways you can get involved:
We are encouraging residents to bring their own things to work on or join us in activities! We also will be keeping a few things on hand for residents who may not have anything to bring to work on and aren’t interested in the activity we are doing. That way everyone can participate!
For more information or to donate items, email Mary Alice Varga at mvarga@ywcaknox.com today!
Come spend Craft Day with the residents at the YWCA! There are several ways you can get involved:
- Come join us!
- Volunteer to teach a 1-1 & 1/2 hour craft.
- Donate craft items such as drawing paper, pencils, glue, scissors, and things to make cards and scrapbooks!
- Tell your friends about our Craft Day and encourage them to donate craft items or teach a craft!
For more information or to donate items, email Mary Alice Varga at mvarga@ywcaknox.com today!
Saturday, August 14, 2010
Welcome New Y-Teen Volunteers!!
Great Volunteer meeting!! Welcome our new Y-Teen volunteers - Tara, Sharon, and Dominique!! :)
If you are a former Y-Teen or someone interested in volunteering with youth, tell them about volunteering with Y-Teens!!
If you are a former Y-Teen or someone interested in volunteering with youth, tell them about volunteering with Y-Teens!!
Friday, August 13, 2010
Volunteer Meeting Tomorrow Afternoon!
Friends in Community wanting to volunteer with Y-Teens... we're meeting tomorrow at 1:30pm at the YWCA! Email mvarga@ywcaknox.com if you're interested in attending!! :)
Thursday, August 12, 2010
Wednesday, August 11, 2010
Y-Teens Membership Online Registration is Open!
Click here to register online to be a YWCA Y-Teen!
Why be a Y-Teen?!
Annual dues are $12 and your membership officially recognizes you as a YWCA Knoxville Y-Teens. This means you:
Why be a Y-Teen?!
- Get to come to all Y-Teens Sundays events including meetings, pool parties, speakers, etc.
- Are considered a member of the YWCA and invited to all YWCA events
- Invited to all volunteer & community service projects hosted by the Y-Teens and the YWCA
- Receive the Y-Teens monthly newsletter and the YWCA monthly newsletter
New Y-Teens Year, New Y-Teens Website!
Check out the new Y-Teens Website and let us know what yout think!!
HoLa Hora Latina Sponsors High School Essay Contest
In celebration of Hispanic Heritage Month, HoLa Hora Latina in Knoxville is sponsoring an essay contest for high school students.
The topic for submissions is "A Hispanic person I admire," and students can write 300-500 words in English or Spanish. The deadline for essay submissions is Sept. 9, and the top three essays will receive prizes. Submit via e-mail at holahoralatina@yahoo.com.
HoLa Hora Latina is a volunteer-based art, culture and education not-for-profit organization whose mission is to help encourage a sense of place among Latinos in the city and to strengthen relationships between Latinos and the community at large.
For more info, visit www.holafestival.org.
The topic for submissions is "A Hispanic person I admire," and students can write 300-500 words in English or Spanish. The deadline for essay submissions is Sept. 9, and the top three essays will receive prizes. Submit via e-mail at holahoralatina@yahoo.com.
HoLa Hora Latina is a volunteer-based art, culture and education not-for-profit organization whose mission is to help encourage a sense of place among Latinos in the city and to strengthen relationships between Latinos and the community at large.
For more info, visit www.holafestival.org.
BINGO Prizes Needed for the Seniors Network Program!!
As the senior program begins preparing for the Fall session, we are in need of bingo prizes. Lotions, wallets, gift cards, picture frames, etc. If you have any items you would like to donate, email Mary Alice Varga at mvarga@ywcaknox.com or call 865-523-6126!!
Monday, August 9, 2010
Volunteer Meeting this Saturday!
Do you know someone interested in volunteering with Y-Teens?! Whether it's a lot or a little, we have many opportunities to get involved! Volunteer meeting this Saturday! Email Mary Alice at mvarga@ywcaknox.com for more information!
Friday, August 6, 2010
Women's Equality Day and League of Women Voters 90th Birthday
Relive the Celebration! Invitation from Jamey Dobbs, President of League of Women Voters Knoxville-Knox County...
We invite you to celebrate the 90th anniversary of the 19th Amendment and the League’s 90th birthday in a special joint presentation on Saturday, August 7 from 10:30-12:00 noon at Market Square in downtown Knoxville. It's a perfect time to bring your mom, your daughter, your neighbor's daughter, a girlfriend, or grandmother to celebrate and share our exciting history. Afterward, have lunch together and enjoy more activities in the afternoon as part of the East Tennessee History Fair in neighboring Krutch Park. We invite you to wear white in the spirit of our celebration, or come in period-style costume for our contest, or just come as you are!
Woman's Suffrage Coalition leader Wanda Sobieski, and League of Women Voters president, Jamey Dobbs will kick off the event at 10:30 on Market Square stage.
We will have ample seating in front of the stage. For this event, the Coalition is sponsoring a new musical play by Candace Corrigan – the Nashville producer of the movie, “How Southern Women Won the Vote. Corrigan’s new play, "A Vote of Her Own", brings the three Tennessee suffragists in the Suffrage Memorial Statue on Market Square to life, with dialogue taken from their own witty, entertaining, and bold writings, much of it set to original music. The 20 minute musical play will be performed at 11:20, 2:00 pm and 4:30 pm (the 2:00 performance takes place at the Krutch Park music stage). Prior to the play, members of the League will announce the winner of the new Making Democracy Work award, given to a nominee who shares the suffragists’ commitment of strengthening democracy in our own community.
After the play, we will give a prize for the best-dressed suffragist and share a large birthday cake and lemonade. After lunch, visit the League and Suffrage Coalition booth in Krutch Park, with a living "tableau" of suffragists who were jailed for their beliefs will talk to visitors behind bars. Young students will be "living statues," who come alive to tell you the story of a famous character in the Suffrage Movement. You can also have your photo taken with a wonderful re-enactor of the famous suffragist and lawyer, Inez Millholland (profile here), who dressed as Joan of Arc while leading a parade on Washington, and helped win legal battles on the way to the vote.
At 3:30 pm, see a showing of Candace Corrigan’s How Southern Women Won the Vote inside the East Tennessee History Center. This is the musical movie donated to all Knox County public schools and libraries, along with a free curriculum, by the League of Women Voters and four top women business owners. It’s a high quality one-hour film, first shown on public television. Don’t miss this great chance to hear the stories of the passionate and courageous women from our own state and learn about the victorious campaign for women’s voting rights here in the South.
Parking: Parking is free on Saturdays in City lots. The Market Square lot with entrances on Walnut and Wall St. will fill quickly that morning due to the Farmer's Market and Fair. The Farmer's Market starts at 9am. The State Street lot and the Walnut/Clinch lot will have spaces and are both within a short walking distance of Market Square.
Questions? Contact event coordinator Jamey Dobbs, League President, at 548-0818.
Notes from the playwright Candace Corrigan:
On Market Square in Knoxville, Tennessee stands a monument to all the Tennessee women who gave their time (and their money) in support of amending the U.S.
Constitution, granting women the right to vote. Three women, representing all three grand divisions of Tennessee, stand cast in bronze; Elizabeth Avery Meriwether, from Memphis, Tennessee, author, suffrage lecturer, and first woman to vote in Tennessee, Lizzie Crozier French, from Knoxville, Tennessee, teacher, activist, and first woman to address the Tennessee State Bar association on the subject of women's rights, and Anne Dallas Dudley, socialite, and nationally recognized suffragist from Nashville, Tennessee.
On August 7, 2010 these women will be joined by National Woman's Party's founder, Alice Paul, in a new play entitled "A Vote of Her Own", a short one act play based on all of these women's writings and speeches. "It will feature excerpts of speeches and interviews of all four of these women and will also feature music of the suffrage movement, and some of it is quite funny. The actresses will be in period costume, and, in effect, will be stepping out of the statue, and coming to life," says Candace Corrigan, playwright and writer/producer for the public television special 'How Southern Women Won the Vote'. Candace says it will be very entertaining, as well as inspiring.
We invite you to celebrate the 90th anniversary of the 19th Amendment and the League’s 90th birthday in a special joint presentation on Saturday, August 7 from 10:30-12:00 noon at Market Square in downtown Knoxville. It's a perfect time to bring your mom, your daughter, your neighbor's daughter, a girlfriend, or grandmother to celebrate and share our exciting history. Afterward, have lunch together and enjoy more activities in the afternoon as part of the East Tennessee History Fair in neighboring Krutch Park. We invite you to wear white in the spirit of our celebration, or come in period-style costume for our contest, or just come as you are!
Jamey Dobbs, President
League of Women Voters Knoxville-Knox County
jameydobbs@yahoo.com
(865) 548-0818 cell, (865) 691-6728 home
www.lwvknoxville.org
The League of Women Voters, a nonpartisan political organization, encourages informed and active participation in government, works to increase understanding of major public policy issues, and influences public policy through education and advocacy.
We invite you to celebrate the 90th anniversary of the 19th Amendment and the League’s 90th birthday in a special joint presentation on Saturday, August 7 from 10:30-12:00 noon at Market Square in downtown Knoxville. It's a perfect time to bring your mom, your daughter, your neighbor's daughter, a girlfriend, or grandmother to celebrate and share our exciting history. Afterward, have lunch together and enjoy more activities in the afternoon as part of the East Tennessee History Fair in neighboring Krutch Park. We invite you to wear white in the spirit of our celebration, or come in period-style costume for our contest, or just come as you are!
Woman's Suffrage Coalition leader Wanda Sobieski, and League of Women Voters president, Jamey Dobbs will kick off the event at 10:30 on Market Square stage.
We will have ample seating in front of the stage. For this event, the Coalition is sponsoring a new musical play by Candace Corrigan – the Nashville producer of the movie, “How Southern Women Won the Vote. Corrigan’s new play, "A Vote of Her Own", brings the three Tennessee suffragists in the Suffrage Memorial Statue on Market Square to life, with dialogue taken from their own witty, entertaining, and bold writings, much of it set to original music. The 20 minute musical play will be performed at 11:20, 2:00 pm and 4:30 pm (the 2:00 performance takes place at the Krutch Park music stage). Prior to the play, members of the League will announce the winner of the new Making Democracy Work award, given to a nominee who shares the suffragists’ commitment of strengthening democracy in our own community.
After the play, we will give a prize for the best-dressed suffragist and share a large birthday cake and lemonade. After lunch, visit the League and Suffrage Coalition booth in Krutch Park, with a living "tableau" of suffragists who were jailed for their beliefs will talk to visitors behind bars. Young students will be "living statues," who come alive to tell you the story of a famous character in the Suffrage Movement. You can also have your photo taken with a wonderful re-enactor of the famous suffragist and lawyer, Inez Millholland (profile here), who dressed as Joan of Arc while leading a parade on Washington, and helped win legal battles on the way to the vote.
At 3:30 pm, see a showing of Candace Corrigan’s How Southern Women Won the Vote inside the East Tennessee History Center. This is the musical movie donated to all Knox County public schools and libraries, along with a free curriculum, by the League of Women Voters and four top women business owners. It’s a high quality one-hour film, first shown on public television. Don’t miss this great chance to hear the stories of the passionate and courageous women from our own state and learn about the victorious campaign for women’s voting rights here in the South.
Parking: Parking is free on Saturdays in City lots. The Market Square lot with entrances on Walnut and Wall St. will fill quickly that morning due to the Farmer's Market and Fair. The Farmer's Market starts at 9am. The State Street lot and the Walnut/Clinch lot will have spaces and are both within a short walking distance of Market Square.
Questions? Contact event coordinator Jamey Dobbs, League President, at 548-0818.
Notes from the playwright Candace Corrigan:
On Market Square in Knoxville, Tennessee stands a monument to all the Tennessee women who gave their time (and their money) in support of amending the U.S.
Constitution, granting women the right to vote. Three women, representing all three grand divisions of Tennessee, stand cast in bronze; Elizabeth Avery Meriwether, from Memphis, Tennessee, author, suffrage lecturer, and first woman to vote in Tennessee, Lizzie Crozier French, from Knoxville, Tennessee, teacher, activist, and first woman to address the Tennessee State Bar association on the subject of women's rights, and Anne Dallas Dudley, socialite, and nationally recognized suffragist from Nashville, Tennessee.
On August 7, 2010 these women will be joined by National Woman's Party's founder, Alice Paul, in a new play entitled "A Vote of Her Own", a short one act play based on all of these women's writings and speeches. "It will feature excerpts of speeches and interviews of all four of these women and will also feature music of the suffrage movement, and some of it is quite funny. The actresses will be in period costume, and, in effect, will be stepping out of the statue, and coming to life," says Candace Corrigan, playwright and writer/producer for the public television special 'How Southern Women Won the Vote'. Candace says it will be very entertaining, as well as inspiring.
We invite you to celebrate the 90th anniversary of the 19th Amendment and the League’s 90th birthday in a special joint presentation on Saturday, August 7 from 10:30-12:00 noon at Market Square in downtown Knoxville. It's a perfect time to bring your mom, your daughter, your neighbor's daughter, a girlfriend, or grandmother to celebrate and share our exciting history. Afterward, have lunch together and enjoy more activities in the afternoon as part of the East Tennessee History Fair in neighboring Krutch Park. We invite you to wear white in the spirit of our celebration, or come in period-style costume for our contest, or just come as you are!
Jamey Dobbs, President
League of Women Voters Knoxville-Knox County
jameydobbs@yahoo.com
(865) 548-0818 cell, (865) 691-6728 home
www.lwvknoxville.org
The League of Women Voters, a nonpartisan political organization, encourages informed and active participation in government, works to increase understanding of major public policy issues, and influences public policy through education and advocacy.
Tuesday, August 3, 2010
10 Tips for The Rest of Summer...
Is summer really almost over?! WOW!! Check out these 10 tips to finish your summer strong!
Friday, July 30, 2010
Interested in Volunteering with the Y-Teens Program?!
Are you or someone you know interested in volunteering with our YWCA Y-Teens Program? Are you a graduated Y-Teen still wanting to be involved?
The YWCA will be hosting a Volunteer Meeting on Saturday, August 14th from 1:30-3:00pm at the YWCA Knoxville Office and we hope that you can attend.
This will be an opportunity for volunteers to meet the YWCA staff, meet other volunteers, learn about the YWCA and the Y-Teens program, and how to get involved. Light snacks and refreshments will be provided.
If you are interesting in attending, please email Mary Alice Varga to RSVP by Monday, August 9th at mvarga@ywcaknox.com
Please share this information with anyone who may be interested! If you have any questions, please contact Mary Alice at any time.
We look forward to meeting you!
The YWCA will be hosting a Volunteer Meeting on Saturday, August 14th from 1:30-3:00pm at the YWCA Knoxville Office and we hope that you can attend.
This will be an opportunity for volunteers to meet the YWCA staff, meet other volunteers, learn about the YWCA and the Y-Teens program, and how to get involved. Light snacks and refreshments will be provided.
If you are interesting in attending, please email Mary Alice Varga to RSVP by Monday, August 9th at mvarga@ywcaknox.com
Please share this information with anyone who may be interested! If you have any questions, please contact Mary Alice at any time.
We look forward to meeting you!
Attend Tribute to Women for Free!!
Y-Teens! Buy your tickets to Tribute to Women for $75.00.... or volunteer as a hostess and see the awards ceremony for FREE! :) There's a limited number so email Mary Alice at mvarga@ywcaknox.com to sign up ASAP!
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