One Hundred Good Women - The Spirit of Community Altruism

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September 28, 2008

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One Hundred Good Women is a non-political and not-for-profit community of women and men embodying the spirit of altruism. We believe service creates strong community.

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Maggie and Richie Backus Family Benefit Celebration August 17 at Liberty Hall Friends of Maggie and Richie Backus are joining together to organize a benefit concert and celebration to be held August 17, from 6-9 p.m., at Liberty Hall in downtown Lawrence. A community of friends from near and far wish to help Maggie with her fight against cancer and to offer love and support to her and her family. Billed as the Maggie and Richie Backus Family Benefit Celebration, the show will include a large number of musicians and a variety of local bands, with the focus on the music of Neil Young and Lucinda Williams. Maggie will speak briefly on cancer awareness. Light fare will be provided as well as a variety of activities geared towards younger people with a silent auction of both real and imaginary items! Everyone is invited. Besides a grand celebration we also hope to raise enough money to help offset the costs of Maggie's treatment. A twenty dollar donation is suggested (kids at half price) but all are welcome regardless. Anyone wishing to participate or be more involved please contact us through BackusBenefit@yahoogroups.com. Or you can email Jane Patrick directly kansashousewife@sunflower.com. New Website Feature! We are going to try and send One Hundred Good Women members an announcement or reminder each month of a community service or community need. We will also spotlight this community need on the website. Click on our new Spotlight Need link (in the black border on the left, under Upcoming Events) to check out this month's community need! Resource Sharing Open House Ever wonder what others are doing to promote compassion, or to bring awareness and collaboration for empowering women, or to address our local and global social and emotional well being in our community? One Hundred Good Women and Women Speak are wondering too... Join us for this NEW Women Speak Event Sunday, September 28, 2008 3-5 pm Steve's Place Individuals and organizations are invited to display projects promoting a sense of community involving the social, emotional and environmental support of children, women and families. Booths will be set up to display projects, share information woman to woman, and provide opportunities for dialogue. The event also includes a potluck sharing of snacks and finger foods plus fun and socializing for women and families. EVERYONE is welcome - members, non-members, family members, friends, and children of all ages!!! Bring your favorite potluck snack, your friends and family, and come learn and share! What this is NOT: We're not having a craft fair and no craft items will be included, no items will be for sale. We are sharing ideas and resources. ... more Thanks to all who attended and helped with the March Membership Gathering and Clothing Exchange! This event had grown substantially over the past couple of years and has become a great fundraiser for our organization. We had a huge turnout and was able to make a sizeable donation of clothing to Penn House as well. Make plans to attend again next March... bringing your gently used clothing and accessories on hangers and pick up new to you items for a buck. With the explansion of this fun event, we ask that you think about helping on one of the Clothing Exchange committees - We'll have a set'em and rack'em up committee and a breakdown and haulitout committee.... We'll contact the membership next year. Enjoy those new to you items! A HUGE Thank You! to Vic Cagan and the Women Speak, Lunafest committee for their outstanding work in bringing us the LUNAFEST Film Festival this year. Lunafest is inspiring, emotional, fun, touching, and informative films for women about women sponsored by Luna Bar. LUNAFEST was a great success with proceeds going to The Breast Cancer Fund, scholarships for women students in the KU Department of Theatre & Film, GaDuGi Safe Center, and WTCS. A warm thank you to all of our special sponsors that helped One Hundred Good Women and Women Speak host this event. ... And a very special thank you to Treanor Architects, P.A. for their sponsorship. Did you know? ....One Hundred Good Women will now accept your donated credit card reward certificates or un-used gift cards! We keep them on hand for folks and families in need. Its another great way to help those in our community! Contact Jennie Washburn or call, 841-0200. Don't forget our local food banks need your support! Check out our current Requests for pantries in our area. Check out the new Special Needs Fund Blog from The Arc of Douglas County. ARC is an advocacy and support organization promoting community acceptance for children with developmental disabilities. Knit for Peace! Would you like to work for peace, one stitch at a time? Join Lawrence knitters and crocheters who are knitting afghans, socks, mittens, hats or vests for the children and families of Afghanistan. Afghans for Afghans collects the knitted gifts and sends them to be distributed directly to Afghan women and children. The next deadline is coming up soon--around Mother's Day. Go toafghansforAfghans.org for pattern directions and instructions and designs to avoid (no images). Ann Kuckelman Cobb has offered to collect and send for the Lawrence group. Contact Ann to participate.
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Gas and Food Cards ... the sign of the times We are listing portions of 3 requests we have recently received. The economy is starting to take its toll on everyone and gas cards are needed as well as food. Please review each on our Requests Page - and if you are able to help in any way, no matter how big or small, please do... Help Mom with New Baby Care We received a call from Douglas County Aids Project about a young mother who has AIDS. The mother is 19 years old, and just had a baby. The mother is not well and we are looking for people to help care for the baby. If you wish to volunteer to help with this, please contact Kelly Evans at kb4ku@yahoo.com or at 766-5827. One funding for services is in place, Trinity In-Home Care will provide staff for the family - but that could take a while. Parents of Premmie Need Rides to NICU We have a young family that can't go to the NICU to see their premature baby as they do not have a car. Would anyone - or anyone you know - be willing to give the mom and/or dad a ride to and from Overland Park Regional Medical Center? They live in the southern part of Lawrence. They expect the baby to be in the hospital for a long time and although its possible Medicaid may provide rides, it won't be until July 1. If you are interested in helping with rides, please contact Diane Pope at the Douglas County Health Dept at 843-0721 or dpope@ldchealth.org and she will help coordinate with the parents. Mom needs Double Stroller We are searching for a double stroller for a mom with 2 young children. Let Jennie know if you have one at jennie@sunflower.com or call 841-0200. Annual Member Events October Book Exchange and Chocolate Potluck March Clothing Exchange Are your Dues Due? We don't send a notice... we just ask that you kindly remember to give your $10 per year dues. Feel free to print and mail our Membership Renewal form and mail your dues .... or .... you could just bring your 10 bucks with you to the next 100 Good Women event! Thank You !!!! Our 2008 Holiday Family Drive was a great success. We filled every wish on our list! ...and then some! Incredible!

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