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What's Up?
June 25, 2012 | Issue 12-011
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SJAC: Beach Party |
Beach Party July 14
St. James Activities Committee is looking forward to seeing you beach lovers once again Saturday, July 14, for its second summer beach party on the sands at the St. James Beach Club.
Listen to music from the Party of Two and socialize with your friends from 5:30-8:30.
Bring a hearty appetizer or dessert for 20 (easier in disposable containers), your chairs, plates/silverware/napkins, and your beverage of choice. This event is free, so how much better can that get! Questions: Call Mary Kremkau 847-712-6357. |
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St. James P.R.I.D.E. |
 Join your eco-minded, beach-loving neighbors and help St. James P.R.I.D.E. with its Clean the Beach program. The date is Saturday, July 14.
What will our volunteers do that day? Remove litter from the Beach Club parking lot, access streets, and beachfront. We'll also remove vegetative debris and dump it behind the dunes. A few of us will pick up those pesky, toe-stubbing rocks.
Dress is beach casual and followed immediately by a pizza party. Clean-up time: 9-10:30 a.m.
Please pre-register for this event so we can order the right number of pizzas. P.R.I.D.E. also supplies bottled water and limited tools. Plan to bring your own work gloves and rake. To register to help contact either Sandy Cherry (sandy.cherry@gmail.com) or Steve Cherry (scherry3@ec.rr.com) or call us at 910-253-9022 with questions. |
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SJAC: Dinner for 5/6 |
Have you signed up for Dinner for 5/6? There's still time! Registration for the fall series closes August 1. Meeting new people has never been easier. Just send your name, address, phone number, and e-mail address to Ann Day at joeday@atmc.net or call her at 253-8550. Participating couples will be sent a schedule and list of couples shortly after registration. Subs are also needed. |
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| Veterans Memorial Brick Sale | |
 We had several inquiries about being able to purchase bricks, so the St. James Armed Services Memorial Fund, Inc. will open up brick sales until September 1 for the last time this year. This will allow anyone to purchase bricks that forgot someone or did not purchase a brick last year.
Order forms are available at the town website www.townofstjamesnc.org. Click the online information tab and download the memorial order form, or contact me at wdadetto@aol.com for a form. New bricks should be placed in the memorial before Veterans Day.
Thank you,
Wayne Dadetto (910-253-3397) |
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Military Appreciation Day |
 The annual St. James Military Appreciation Day golf tournament, sponsored by St. James Properties LLC, will take place Saturday, Sept. 8. All proceeds go to support Operation at Ease and the Richard H. Stewart Jr. American Legion Post 543.
The four St. James golf courses will be in use. Format: Reserve & Players clubs - 2 person teams, 1 best net ball. Founders & Members clubs - 4 person team scramble. There will be a shotgun start at 8:30 a.m. Prizes will be awarded.
Sign up as a team or as an individual. Club members can sign up on Golfnet through August 25.
Residents who do not have Golfnet access can sign up in person at the Reserve Club pro shop with Steve Elkins or by calling Steve at the Reserve Club (253-5100, x200). Golf will be followed by a family style picnic at Woodlands Park. The fee for golf members is $60, which includes golf, picnic and entertainment (members not on the cart plan will pay the applicable cart fee). Non-golf member fee is $110, which includes golf, cart, picnic and entertainment.
Picnic-only attendees are welcome for a $20 fee. Call Steve Elkins at 253-5100 x200 to purchase picnic tickets. The menu includes barbeque, chicken and side dishes. The picnic will begin at 2:30 p.m. Mike's Garage band will provide the entertainment. There will be a live auction and raffle.
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Medical Ministry International Needs You |
 We are hoping to recruit much needed volunteers, medical and non-medical, to go with us on our surgical mission trip with Medical Ministry International (MMI) to Vallejuerlo, Dominican Republic in September. The project will be for only one week, Saturday, Sept. 15-Saturday, Sept. 22. We would love to have nurses, med-surg. as well as OR nurses, scrub techs, those active as well as retired, go with us. Also general helpers, folks with no medical or surgical experience at all, will be most welcome. Our Dominican team will have arranged safe and healthy room and board for us.
The cost is $895 for room and board, plus air fare (approx. $600).
Please visit the MMI website, www.mmint.org for general information about MMI. Please contact us for specifics regarding the mission trip at jas3@inmind.net, 910-253-9254 (home), 409-9324 (Jimbo cell), or 409-9325 (Ruth cell).
Please join us for an experience of a lifetime. You are needed.
Thank you,
Jimbo and Ruth Smith |
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Calling All Connecticut Yankees |
 Once again, the St. James Connecticut transplants will be holding their annual party at Waterway Park Saturday, Sept. 15 (rain date Sunday, Sept. 16) at 4:30 p.m. Come feast on lasagna, eggplant parm, green salad, mostaccioli with sauce, sausage and peppers, meatballs, Italian bread, and sweet yea. BYOB or other drinks you prefer. Be the prize-winning table in Connecticut trivia or maybe win a door prize! St. James' own D.J. Dan will entertain us throughout the evening.
Please drop off checks payable to Roger Nejes for $18/person, in an envelope, at one of the following locations. On the envelope, please put your names as you want them written on your nametags, the name of the twon you are from in Connecticut, and a contact phone number and email address.
Drop off locations:
Roger Nejes: 2846 St. James Drive
Holly and Bill Meiners: 2803 Irwin (intersection of Irwin and Members Club Blvd).
Sonia and Bernie Smith: 3701 Fairfield Way (in Players)
Registration deadline is September 4, but sign up early to reduce your stress and help our caterer plan for this event.
Any questions? Call Holly Meiners at 253-9642 or Cindi Neumann at 253-9819.
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SJSC: Removal of Patriotic Bows & Flags |
 Patriotic bows and flags have adorned our mailboxes for the past two months and have added some sparkle to St. James. But they are beginning to look a little tired, so your neighborhood representatives will be removing them in the next few days. They will dispose of the bows but leave the flags in your newspaper slots for you to enjoy some other way. If for some reason your bow and flag are still up after July 9, please remove them. Operation At Ease, in conjunction with the St. James Service Club, sincerely appreciates your support of this very important fundraiser. At least six military families are visiting St. James every month now through October, so if you see them around the plantation please introduce yourself and give them a big welcome! |
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St. James Pool League |
Yes... the Pool League in St. James is alive and well. Currently composed of 10 teams, we are entering into our 3rd year.
The game is 8 ball. It is an open format with 9 games played each night. We play in the homes of pool players that have tables. You do not have to have a table to play but new tables are always welcome.
Games are held Thursdays. Team members will not play on every scheduled date as we rotate team players as needed. The league runs from October-April. Men and women are invited to play.
President Frans Kuipers remains adament about keeping the games friendly but still competitive. Everyone in the league agrees that win or lose, the objective is to have some fun around the
pool table.
We are currently looking to expand the league. If you are are interested, call Scott Baldwin at 253-1497 or Frans Kuipers at 454-0933. |
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Hope Harbor Home | |
Food for Thought
Hope Harbor Home, Brunswick County's only shelter for victims of domestic abuse and sexual assault, has recently had its funding from FEMA cut. Brunswick County is no longer poor enough for Hope Harbor Home to qualify for emergency funds for food from FEMA for the women and children it shelters.
Domestic violence is not the pretty picture we want to think about in this beautiful place we have chosen to call home - but it exists.
Mary Page, John Goldsworth and I are all St. James residents and Hope Harbor Home board members.
CARDS FOR CARING is a program that we have devised to help make up the $7,500 deficit left by the lack of FEMA funds. A gift card from Lowe's, Food Lion, Wal-Mart, HT or wherever you shop and in any amount that is comfortable will make a difference. These cards will be used by shelter management to purchase food only for our clients.
During the month of July you can drop your cards at the home of Mary Page at 3659 Wingfoot Drive or with me at 3315 Sparkleberry Court. Thanks you in advance for your caring.
I consider myself lucky to call St.James home.
Respectfully,
Nita Robertson
Board President, Hope Harbor Home
Hope Harbor Home is a private nonprofit 501(c)3 organization.
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St. James Service Club | |
School Supplies Collection: August 1-12
The St. James Service Club will again be collecting school supplies for needy students in Brunswick County beginning August 1. Please place your donations in the labeled boxes in the St. James Community Center. Donations are gratefully accepted through August 12. All school supplies (backpacks, pencils, standard and scientific calculators, poster display boards, pencil cases, pens, erasers, glue sticks, 24 pack crayons, inch/cm rulers, highlighters, notebook dividers, 3-ring binders, marble composition books, wide-rules paper, and tissues) are gratefully accepted. Specific lists for the individual schools will be posted in Wal-Mart and you are welcome to use these lists. Thank you for your generosity.
Take advantage of TAX-FREE shopping for school supplies August 3-5!
Fall Bow Fundraiser Needs Your Help
In order to assure this new fundraiser is successful, we need lots of neighborhood volunteers, who can:
* distribute flyers to assigned neighbors between August 28 and September 2;
* collect orders and checks/cash on front porches in early September; and
* put up the bows on neighbors mailboxes between September 29 and October 4.
Please help us if you can. To sign up as a neighborhood volunteer, please e-mail co-chairs Bonnie Westbrook (jimbonw@msn.com) and Stephanie Macaluso (smacaluso06@yahoo.com) with your name, street address, e-mail and telephone number. The time commitment is minimal - just a few hours over several weeks!
Money raised will support Brunswick County nonprofits that focus on children like Waves 4 Kids, Matthew's Ministry, CIS, and others determined by the executive committee of the Service Club.
 Football 501 - Save the Date
Get your team jerseys and hats out. The St. James Service Club is getting ready for the 5th Annual Football Extravaganza (aka Football 501) to be held Thursday, October 4, starting at 5 p.m. at the St. James Community Center. This year we are going to include a catered BBQ dinner and cash bar to enhance our pigskin party atmosphere.
Our resident professor, Chuck Priefer, a long-time coach with the Green Bay Packers, San Diego Chargers, Detroit Lions and Denver Broncos, will lead the discussions. Denny Marcin, a veteran coach with the N.Y. Jets and Giants, and Joe Novak, a former head football coach at Northern Illinois University, will join Chuck to round out the panel discussions on interesting topics on today's NFL. Dick Maxwell, our retired NFL senior director of broadcasting and instant replay consultant, will be returning for another fun-filled night. There are no holds barred with these gentlemen! Upcoming Events
Welcome Tea: Sept. 10
Football 501: Oct. 4
Tip Toe Through the Tables: Oct. 17
Angel Tree: Oct.-Dec.
White House Ornament Sale: Oct. through Dec.
Fall Fashion Show: Nov. 13
Holiday House Tour: Dec. 6-7 |
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First, a thank to the St. James Community for its support of the Rally for the Cure. For the past 13 years the tournament has been held in July. We've made a change, setting the 2012 date for the event during Breast Cancer Awareness Month. This year the Rally for the Cure will be held Tuesday, October 16.
Let's also Rock for the Cure. Mike's Garage Band will be playing for your listening and dancing pleasure on the evening of Saturday, October 13, to benefit this breast cancer fundraising effort.
The planning committee will soon begin its work. Anyone who would like to support this project by giving time, goods, or services is asked to contact Carol Kidd at 253-3532 or carolskis@earthlink.net.
Watch for more details coming soon.
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