KCOJ bloglines: "Laurita Winery"

Friday, October 28, 2011

Funnel cakes & wine? You bet!

So how did you spend last weekend? A few of us sold about 500 funnel cakes as a fundraiser at the Laurita Winery's 2011 Harvest Festival. Saturday was clear and cool, Sunday was on eof the best weather days one could ever hope for!

So who helped out? Lou & Clair, Dan, Fran & Diane & Pearl & Sam, Laura, Donna and me.

Great jazz. Great wine. Great funnel cakes. And I'm so glad for Randy & Ray: great crowd! And everyone had a great time.

A slideshow of photos taken by Pearl, Sam and I can be found on by Flickr site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/22036136@N07/sets/72157627875696847/show/

Thursday, May 28, 2009

An Interclub with Daybreak at Laurita Winery

We had a great visit with the Daybreak club this evening at Laurita Winery. Nick led us on a tour of the winemaking process and Fran presented a check from our club to Kimball Medical Center's Craig for the second chair we committed to. Not to be confused with Monty Python's comfy chair ("Nobody can resist the comfy chair!"), the chairs we donated funds for will be used by patients undergoing treatment at the hospital.

About KCOJ

The Kiwanis Club of Jackson just celebrated its 25th birthday. We organized February 7, 1991 and since then we have raised funds for scholarships, we have sponsored youth programs, worked with other local community service groups and donated $200,000.00 to eliminate Iodine deficiency disorders and neonatal tetanus, and co-fund the expansion of Children’s Specialized Hospital.

We have presented nearly 100 scholarships to graduating Jackson high school seniors and dozens to other students in the state.

We have sponsored four Key Clubs, which are service clubs for high school students that are a vital part of our Kiwanis family. We also sponsor two Builders Clubs for middle school students.

We have worked with other community groups like The Rotary Club, The Jackson Food Pantry with the Jackson Women of Today, the Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts, the Jackson PBA, The Handicapped Commission, the Fossils, the Ocean County Library, and Habitat for Humanity.

Our activities have included our annual Breakfast with Santa, our annual Police Officer of the Year dinner, helping the homeless, highway cleanup, cleanup of the Holmanville Church cemetery, health fairs, bike rodeos, and we hosted several community dinners.

Our favorite activity, though, is cooking for other groups like Sandy Relief, Chariot Riders, the annual PBA picnic, National Night Out Against Crime, the homeless, the Jackson and Lakewood branches of the Ocean County Library, and the Black Cowboys Association.

We have also made an impact on the world in large and small ways. We have donated farm animals to impoverished people. We have donated to put a smile on children’s faces.

The Kiwanis Club of Jackson aims to “improve the world one child, one community at a time.”

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Friday, October 28, 2011

Funnel cakes & wine? You bet!

Thursday, May 28, 2009

An Interclub with Daybreak at Laurita Winery

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