Warrior Wives Support Opportunity
Warrior Wives
Candle and Yellow Ribbon
Fundraiser and Bake Sale.
Warrior Wives will be holding a fundraiser/bake sale on Saturday, February 13th from 11-3 at Mardels on Battlefield St. in Springfield. We will have specialty baked goods for Valentine’s Day, along with handmade scarves, candles and yellow ribbon car fresheners.
If you would like to have your candles gift wrapped for Valentine’s Day, please let us know prior to the fundraising event and we will provide gift-wrapping free of charge. Included is a picture of the options we have available, along with scent and price lists.
Please pass along our fundraiser information to anyone you know that might support Warrior Wives. For more information about Warrior Wives, visit www.usawarriorwives.org email 1warriorwife@usawarriorwives.org
These are the scents that we have available for BOTH the candles and the Yellow Ribbon car fresheners (Please keep in mind we did not pick the names…but the smells are great!)
*Abercrombie & Fitch
*Love Spell
*Leather
*Margarita
*Butt Naked (it’s fruity!)
The following scents are in candle form only.
*Coconut Lime Verbena-Compare to: Bath and Body Words, Inc
*Hot Apple Pie
*Ocean
*Sweet Home Alabama
*Very Sexy-Similar to Victoria Secrets
The candles are a 6oz. Classic 12 Sided, Single Wick, Burns approx 45-50 hours.
Candles $7 Yellow Ribbon Car Fresheners $3
Combo giftwrapped Free to be picked up Prior to 2/13/2010 $10
Military OneSource Discussions Boards
Are you geographically dispersed?
Would you like to connect with other military family members and Service Members? Military OneSource has the tool for that connection.
Discussion Boards
Deployment. Health and fitness. Money. Whatever your concerns or needs, the Military OneSource community is here for you 24/7. Our discussion boards, moderated chats, and webinars will help to put your mind at ease. Share your experiences and thoughts or search for insightful ideas from other members of the military community in Missouri. For more information about discussion boards, please go to www.militaryonesource.com
To participate in the Missouri discussion boards;
1. Log in.
2. Click on Online Community (blue tab at top).
3. Under Discussion board click on view and join or discussion boards.
4 Scroll down to Missouri.
5. Click on a topic of interest or add new topic.
6 Have fun connecting with other military families.
Tracy Anderson
Military OneSource
Missouri MOS Joint Family Support Assistance Program Consultant
phone: 573-418-0414
tracy.a.anderson@militaryonesource.com
www.MilitaryOneSource.com
Call 1-800-342-9647
You name it…we can help!
To request event support go to: http://jfsap.mhf.dod.mil/request
Four Star Chef – Offered at no cost to Youth from Military Families
Summers @ Mizzou Camps for Youth July 25-29, 2010 UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI COLUMBIA
SUMMERS @ MIZZOU
Teresa Bishop
Do you have an idea you want to turn into your own business? Do you want to move from a
seat in the audience to the Director’s Chair? Do you enjoy eating and preparing different kinds of foods? Do you like helping people? Do you like maps? Do you enjoy helping animals? If any of these apply to you, Summers @ Mizzou is where you should be the week of July 25-29.
Summers @ Mizzou offers six different camps
· Director’s Cut
· Scrub-In to a Health Career
· Build-a-Business
· Dog Days of Summer
· Four Star Chef – offered at no cost to Youth from Military Families
· GeoTech
These camps are offered as residential or day camps. Camps are available for a wide range of ages beginning with 12 year olds; check the registration information for the age range of each camp.
Early registration is due by May 7. For registration and available scholarships, see http://4h.missouri.edu/programs/summers. For those without Internet access, call your local University of MO Extension Office or Teresa Bishop at 573-884-0554 for a brochure.
Speak Out for Military Kids Interactive Theater
Missouri Operation: Military Kids would like to take a team of four middle school and/or high school youth to a fun and unique opportunity at K-State, Manhattan, KS. If you know of some teens and an adult sponsor that would be interested in attending or you would like more information about Speak Out for Military Kids Interactive Theater, contact:
Joan Zeller -zellerc@missouri.edu
Operation: Military Kids- www.operationmilitarykids.org
University of Missouri Extension
4-H Center for Youth Development- www.4h.missouri.edu/programs/military/
Operation: Military Kids is a partnership of Army Child, Youth and School Services, National 4-H Headquarters/USDA, and University of Missouri Extension. Missouri Operation: Military Kids is supported by the 4-H/Army Youth Development Project under Kansas State University special project number 2007-48661-03868.
Military families can use sitter site free
Posted : Friday Jan 22, 2010 18:27:53 EST
The Defense Department now is paying for an Internet service that helps military families find in-home child care, nannies, tutors, elder care providers, pet sitters and other services in their local communities.
Active-duty Army, Navy, Air Force and Marine Corps members and their families, as well as National Guard and reserve members and their families, can receive a free membership to the service, which costs an average of $120 a year. Retirees are not eligible.
You must go to www.sittercity.com/dod to activate your free membership.
Those looking for the services can do it in two ways, through a sitter search or by posting a job. Those looking for child care, elder care providers, pet sitters and house cleaners can use specific search criteria, including geographic areas. The database will pull from more than 600,000 child care provider profiles nationwide. But there are more than 1 million care provider profiles across all five types of care — child, tutoring, senior, pet, and home, said Mary Schwartz, spokeswoman for Sittercity.
The program provides military families with instant access to caregiver profiles, including background checks, pictures, references, reviews, a four-step screening process, and a specialized matching technology to help select the right caregiver. They also are working to include military spouses who provide family child care in their homes, too.
Sittercity.com doesn’t employ the caregivers; it simply helps match them with families. The family hiring the caregiver negotiates the salary or fee with the caregiver.
The site will help increase options for families, including normal weekly and hourly care and care for those who work in excess of a normal duty day or live off-base in remote areas, said Melissa Anderson, head of Sittercity’s corporate division.
“We’re very honored and excited to be part of this program for military families,” Anderson said.
“Because of the mobile nature of military life, trusted community resources are often difficult to identify and locate. These online tools will help service and family members attain the best match between resource and need,” said Tommy Thomas, deputy undersecretary of defense for military community and family policy, in a statement announcing the new service.
The site confirms eligibility through the Defense Enrollment Eligibility Reporting System.
