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August 21, Newport Dunes Beach
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Peggy Roberts and Robin Workman at our Cancer Awareness Training on August 18,
2005.Peggy passed away peacefully on September 11th surrounded by her
loving family and friends. Peggy will be remembered for her selflessness and
dedication for the caring of others. We will all miss her very much. Robin continues her battle with this ugly disease.
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This quilt was made by Jaye Donato and 'The West Coast Quilters' for The Foster
Care Auxiliary of Orange County. To obtain opportunities to win this quilt
contact kharvey@socal.rr.com . Winner will be drawn at the December 8 Quarterly Meeting and Auction
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Shirley Jandron won the quilt at the Cancer Awareness Training and Quarterly
Meeting. Shirley is a great asset to our organization and is always
lending her helping hands and heart to us. The
Orange County Board of Supervisors commends foster parents and child welfare
staff and proclaims the month of May 2005 as "Foster Care Month" in Orange
County. Foster Parents asked to accept the Proclamations on May 24 were: |
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| May 21,2005 |
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| We had our own little ribbon tying tree to celebrate National Foster Care
Month! |
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We
all had a wagon ride tour of the farm, and all the kids got a strawberry
picking hat and bandana picked a container of strawberriesto take home. Our 'guide' taught everyone how to properly pick a strawberry in addition to
how different vegetables and fruits grew.and the end of each bit of information came with a real
live, fresher than ever taste! |
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May 7, 2005 Orange County Foster Parent Conference.'Sailing the Waves of Change'. Our table stayed busy and there were many who had never heard of us or our
resource and distribution center before. Please help us to spread the word
to ALL Orange County Licensed Foster & Kinship Families |
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Christine Cano won the Quilt Drawing at the County Conference where it was displayed next to Robins which was available for those who wanted
to sign it. Christine had the guests for her newly adopted twins sign the
quilt she won at their christening the following week. |
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| Our April Quarterly Meeting consisted of a special
presentation on the new Pride pre-service training by Cynthia Roe. |
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| Robin has been
diagnosed with Leiomyosarcoma, a rare cancer. |
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Peggy Roberts, our Board Social Services Rep has been diagnosed with Pancreatic
Cancer.
She continues to work with her port and low dose chemotherapy
pump. Send her your good
wishes for a speedy recovery. |
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| Winner of Quarterly Quilt is Debbie Gutierrez! |
Auxiliary8/images/quilt pics.doc Click here to see Robin at her first Chemo Treatment.
Have you signed her quilt yet?
It will be on display at the conference on May 7th, along with
the one that you
can buy a chance to win. Come on over to the Foster Care Auxiliary
Table
and include your good wishes on Robin's quilt, buy a chance to win a quilt and
pick
up a pen while you are saying hi. See you there! |
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| The Auxiliary was
pleased to be able to help in the procurement and distribution of toys for the
children in our foster parent member families for the holiday season. |
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| The quilt for
the November Quarterly raffle was won by Nancy Eyskens. Thank you to Robin
Workman, Christine Cano, Peggy Roberts and Deborah Thompson who will be selling
tickets for next quarters quilt. Make sure to help them out and buy a ticket or
two.or three! Contact me if you have a group of friends or acquaintances who
might be interested in buying tickets from YOU! kharvey@socal.rr.com |
| Sept. 25, 2004. Foster Family Picnic at Irvine Regional Park |
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| Jerry and Joanne Noyes were presented with the first ever Lifetime Membership in
the Foster Care Auxiliary of Orange County....We WON'T let them quit! |
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Jack Silberstein of Grove Harbor Pharmacy was awarded with our Friend of Foster
Family Award as was Miguel Cuerva (not pictured) of Hometown Buffett, both for
making a positive difference in the lives of our foster children. |
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Ready to start the day.
The heat seemed to melt the balloons, but our wonderful volunteer DJ, David
Barrios http://bbcband.tripod.com/index.htm kept the crowd lively despite the
heat. |
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The picnic owes its' success to our members who planned, organized and worked,
to Orangewood Children's Foundation, to our many volunteers who manned booths,
painted nails, supervised games, and to the staff of Orange County Social
Services who made sure everyone was signed in and stood over a hot stove to cook
and serve hundreds and HUNDREDS and HUNDREDS of hot dogs and
hamburgers..... |
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and especially to those who come year after
year to enjoy the picnic! |
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Sept. 23, 2004. Appreciation Dinner for Jerry and Joanne Noyes at Claim
Jumper Restaurant in Fountain Valley. The Auxiliary presented Jerry and
Joanne with a clock for their new mantel in Texas with a heartfelt engraving on
it and a Memory Book that Bonnie McInerny put together. It's hard to think
of the Auxiliary and its' Thrift Store without thinking of Jerry and Joanne. They are an integral part of the Auxiliary and the entire foster care
community...They will leave a giant hole with their departure. I'm sure we
will all flounder around trying to do what they have done...but because of them,
we will keep trying, because of them...WE KNOW IT CAN BE DONE!!! |
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| Sept. 18, 2004. 'Jerry and Joanne Day' at the Thrift Store. |
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A Whale of a
Time!
About 20 foster families
got together and had a warm and wonderful day at Newport Dunes on August 15.
Butch Smith cooked burgers and hot dogs for everyone as Miguel found himself
unexpectedly in the hospital. Many thanks go to NCL for the entertainment and
donating to our Auxiliary allowing us the funds to reimburse our families
parking fees. We even had hula dancers! |
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Nina
Yamasaki is a large part of the organization and volunteer co-ordination for our
events. She does a wonderful job and puts in many hours. Wait till you see
what she has lined up for the picnic! |
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We had a Quarterly Meeting on August 19 and were able to provide training on the IEP process with the outstanding contribution of Elaine Keeley who was kind enough
to fill in at the last minute. She did an exceptional job of informing us on
the latest updates in the IEP procedure. Elaine took the quarterly quilt with
her when she left as the winner turned out to be her fellow NCL member Kathi
Vogal. Congratulations and thank you to all NCL members for supporting the
Auxiliary in our efforts. |
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On June 25th we had our quarterly meeting where Jerry's impending departure and Robin's
willingness to keep the foster care distribution center open was announced.
There were prizes from Bingo.I believe everyone won at least one game.. And we
had a few new faces at our meeting which was wonderful. Desserts were shared
and everyone took home a gift in appreciation of our foster dads. |
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The
opportunity drawing for the Moses Bed was won by ME! (I am sooo happy. I only
invested $20. in tickets for this wonderful baby basket.It is worth hundreds!)
Check out the web site for J.C.Lamb www.jclambbaby.com they are offering a discount to foster parents! And
make sure you get the opportunity to win the next one! They really are wonderful .. even if you don't have a baby, you must know someone who does.
What a lovely gift it would make. |
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The
Quarterly Quilt was won by Karen
Templeton. A wonderful new quilt top has been donated by Sharon Hritz & Ginger
Fajack.to be quilted by me..check my web site where a picture will be posted on
the 'win' page as soon as it's completed. www.sweetrelishquilting.com
An investment of $1. for the opportunity to win one of these quilts goes toward
all the good things the Auxiliary does for you. Won't you please dig into your
spare change and help me with this project?
Also at the meeting we distributed the
tickets for the 2004 U.S. Olympics, Men's Finals for Gymnastics donated by
Arrowhead Pond. It was a great opportunity to be a small part of the Olympics.
And although the seats were in the nosebleed section..the ushers kindly moved us
to unused seats that were only about 10 rows back from the action! |
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Be sure to check your email regularly (and
make sure you are on our email list) as this is the
way we will let you know
when we have access to something special like this. Many times,
we have a very
limited time to distribute donated items for a particular date and email seems
the best way to 'get the word out' |
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| Tanaka Farm and Strawberry Tour. May 1, 2004 |
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| Boarding the tractor for a tour of the farm. |
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Our guide provided us with details on how his plants grow and picked samples to demonstrate just how good FRESH vegetables are! |
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| Friendly scarecrows guard Tanaka Farm. |
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Our last stop on the tour was the strawberry field. The kids all picked a container full to take home and we each ate our fill of the most wonderful,
mouth watering, FRESH strawberries ever! |
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Linda Darden along with Joanne Noyes and Karen Templeton organized, shopped,
prepared and hosted our annual Social Worker Appreciation Brunch.
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| Over 200 social workers were able to enjoy our brunch. |
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Ginger Fajack donated this 42" x 50" quilt for our March quilt raffle. It
was won by Patti Talanca. |
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The above pictures were taken at the March 19 quarterly meeting. Pat Smith
organized the Mardi Gras theme, What A Lot A Pizza donated dinner, training
credit was given for viewing an interesting video, the winner of the quarterly
quilt drawing was determined and an auction was held, with a Moses Bed donated
by J.C.Lamb Co drawing the highest bids. There will be a quarterly drawing
for these beds in the future along with Kathy's opportunity quilt. |
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January 25,
2004. Tumbleweed Tom invites members to challenge his chili recipe.
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| Joanne Noyes is ready to begin the official chili tasting. |
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Bonnie and Diana Fossum's recipe out-tasted Tumbleweed Tom's. Visit the
January '04 newsletter to view their recipe. |
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| Tumbleweed Tom (aka Bill) and Joanne Davey won the January quilt raffle. |
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Auxiliary Board Members Diana Suber, Karen Templeton, Gail Hallman, and David
Reger along with the rest of the board want to wish you the happiest of holidays and extend our wishes for a New Year filled with pleasant surprises. We also
want to take this opportunity to thank you for caring for children other than
your own. We know first hand that it can be a tough job but comes with many
rewards. |
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| The winner of the October '03 quilt raffle was foster
parent Laura Nelson. |
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Nancy Ota was presented with the 'Friends of Foster Families' award by Sharon
Dooley of the Foster Care Auxiliary of Orange County at the SSA 2003 Holiday
Dinner & Training..Sally Wurth also had a presentation for Nancy.
If you would like to suggest someone who has made a positive difference to the
foster care
community and is a 'friend of foster parents' for consideration of
this award contact me and
I will take your suggestion to our next board
meeting. kharvey@socal.rr.com |
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Auxiliary
Member, Sylvia Hunter taking advantage of our monthly member shopping. Notice
all of the items that Sylvia picked..how much did it cost her???? NOTHING!!! One of the wonderful benefits of belonging is our member shopping days. |
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| Picnic... pics and fun for ALL foster families |
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Steven and Kathy Harvey awarding Dr. Osburn the 'Friend of Foster Families'
Award.
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