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Members Claudell Migle, Mary Ruiz, Dorothy Wilhelm and Pat Surrett in action!

Capitol LaSertoma "Coats for Kids"  (Austin TX)


 

Coats for Kids is an annual project. Austin LaSertoma works alongside many other members of the community to sort and distribute coats to those in need. Coats are collected and cleaned by a local dry cleaner before distribution.

 

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Another BIG project for the club is the Quiet Pleases poster contest which involves third grade classes in many Austin elementary schools. Posters are judged and each school that participates received an award. The 2007-08 poster contest at twenty schools recently completed resulted in 1700 posters that club members sorted through to identify the top winners at each school. First and third (tie) place winners at Kiker, Clayton and Cowen schools are pictured here. Baronov school took second place.

 

Capitol LaSertoma also has a NEW sponsorship: A hole in the Austin Sertoma Golf tournament is sponsored with the proceeds going to the Texas School for the Deaf for a putting green.  Members George Ruiz and Claudell Migl worked 10 to 12 hours each on this project. Claudell Migl is pictured at "our" hole. 
 

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Winter Haven Florida Fallfest.  Another annual event!  
LaSertoma Pumpkin Patch at Polk Community College, Winter Haven Campus is held on the third Saturday of October. (Next one is October 18, 2008 from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.) The club held several other fundraisers such as pecan, poinsettia and rummage sales, and a Tasters Tea with a white elephant sale.

This busy LaSertoma club has contributed to Adopt-a-Highway, Cancer Resource Room, Family Emergency Services, the blood bank, Sertoma Camp Endeavor, Friends of the Library, Salvation Army, LaSertoma Scholarship, Memorial Youth Service Award and their Endowment Fund. They also collect medicine bottles, cell phones and printer cartridges.
 

Jaycees Club House was the site for the March meeting of the Winter Haven Area LaSertoma Club where new officers were presented for the 2008-09 term. Marilyn Pearce presented the officers to the club. Presiding for this term is chairwoman of the board Thelma Henry. The other officers are President Terri Hobby, Vice President Billy Sue Bourland, Secretary Sandra Weis, Treasurer Sondra Cole and Sergeant at Arms Rosemary Staskus.

Donna Maitland became the club's 30th member and was inducted by Thelma Henry. Katie Bicker, Tanya Whitaker and Joan Provencher distributed secret pal gifts and, continuing with the silence, the secret vote for the LaSertoma of the Year also took place at this meeting.

The evening's program was presented by club member Cindy Shoemaker, who gave a presentation about her participation in the Susan G. Komen Foundation's three-day walk for breast cancer. Shoemaker also gave an elaboration on how the foundation was formed and included extensive history and operations information.

The Adopt-A-Highway volunteers from the club, Vicki VanSteenburg, Laurice Beck and Terri Hobby, reported cleaning up a portion of U.S. 17, and Renie Duell and Marilyn Pearce reported their attendance at the Salvation Army volunteer appreciation luncheon. They brought back two Certificates of Appreciation for the club from the work with the Christmas stocking and Christmas angel programs that LaSertoma did. Since the beginning of the year these local LaSertoma members have collected and donated 34 cell phones and 51 ink cartridges for charity.

For more pictures see: http://www.pbase.com/rjphotos/2007_lasertoma

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The Dayton LaSertoma Club held their forty eighth annual banquet at the Presidential Banquet Center on Feb. 20, and recognized thirty-two senior students from public and private high schools for service to their school and community. A former president of Dayton LaSertoma, Gladys Malone, conceived the idea of honoring our youth for their service and from that early beginning in 1960, the award program has grown to be a progressive award throughout the United States, Canada and Mexico.  The award recognizes those youth who through outstanding volunteer service contribute to the community at large. Each fall, the club contacts county high schools in their local area and requests that each school select a senior student that best exemplifies the criteria for community service set by LaSertoma.