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Sertoma’s Friday, March 17th Traditional St. Patrick’s Day Feast

Sertoma’s Friday, March 17th Traditional St. Patrick’s Day Feast

Good morning, Everyone

Happy Super Bowl weekend, folks!

I know that I can count on you to mark your calendar for Sertoma’s Friday, March 17th traditional St. Patrick’s Day Feast. We have been working hard to prepare and serve a great dinner (post pandemic) so we hope to see your smiling faces.  Good weather is predicted.

If you would, send a response back to me if you truly believe that you will attend, as this helps with a proper count. No presale tickets.

Pretty PLEASE check our website at:  www.leonavalleysertoma.org  Click on our blog to see what Sertoma has been up to!

I ask that you forward this flyer to family and friends ~  you can even provide my phone number.

I would be remiss if I didn’t promote our open membership J So, know that you are welcome to join us for breakfast @ 8am – at Jack’s Place, 40352 90th St. West, Leona Valley on either a first or third Saturday of any chosen month that is convenient for you.  We would love to meet and break bread with you.

AND, would love to listen to YOUR ideas.

God bless ~ stay warm and well,

Jan (Granny Jan) Clark

661-270-9268 home

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You can scroll down to see the Flyer for this event and I am including its contents here:

Sertoma’s Friday March 17th Traditional St. Patrick’s Day Feast

Mark Your Calendar for Sertoma Fundraiser

Sertoma Hosts and Serves a Traditional Corned Beef Dinner Friday- March 17 ~ 4pm-7pm Leona Valley Community Bldg~8367 Elizabeth Lake Rd.

Adults $12 / Senior’s $10 (55 & older) / Youth $6 (5 & under) Price includes meal, roll & butter, coffee, tea & dessert EXTRA COST: Wine, Beer, Soda, Bottled Water, Jameson Whiskey & Irish Coffee

Proceeds are for Local Scholarships & One AV College Student majoring in deaf studies

Sponsored by: Villa del Sol, Rally Kia, Jack’s Place, Burkey – Cox – Evans & Bradford and Calandri Farms “First Time” Mini Silent Auction

Dine In ~ Eat Outside (weather permitting) ~ Take Out ~ CASH or CHECK ONLY www.leonavalleysertoma.org /

Contact # 661-270-9268 Thank you in advance for your loyalty

 

Sertoma Traditional Corned Beef Dinner - March 17, 2023 - #2 RESPOND

St. Patrick’s Day Dinner 2023

Don’t Miss Our 2023 St. Patrick’s Day Dinner

Mark Your Calendar for this upcoming Sertoma Fundraiser as Sertoma Hosts and Serves a Traditional Corned Beef Dinner.

Date: Friday- March 17 ~ 4pm-7pm
Where: Leona Valley Community Bldg~8367 Elizabeth Lake Rd, Leona Valley, CA
Cost: Adults $12 / Senior’s $10 (55 & older) / Youth $6 (5 & under)
Price includes meal, roll & butter, coffee, tea & dessert
EXTRA COST: Wine, Beer, Soda, Bottled Water, Jameson Whiskey & Irish Coffee

Proceeds are for Local Scholarships & One AV College Student majoring in deaf studies

Sponsored by: Villa del Sol, Rally Kia, Jack’s Place, Burkey – Cox – Evans & Bradford, and Calandri Farms

“First Time” Mini Silent Auction!!!

Dine In ~ Eat Outside (weather permitting) ~ Take Out ~ CASH or CHECK ONLY

Contact # 661-270-9268 with any questions and SEE FLYER AT BOTTOM OF PAGE.

Thank you in advance for your loyalty.

www.leonavalleysertoma.org

When St. Patrick’s Day rolls around, I cannot help but think of John Seymour. He was our St. Patrick’s Day meal John Seymour on the job for St. Patrick's Day dinner.coordinator, chef and mentor for as long as I can remember. He and Lana were a team / the “dynamic duo”.

I wrote the following for John’s memorial and want to share it with you today.

“A Little Bit” of John Seymour

It’s not easy to write “just a little” about a man who has been and will always be a pillar and a gift to our Leona Valley Community. On behalf of Sertoma, John Seymour gained the respect of men, women and children alike. Pertaining to Sertoma, John filled his niche and accomplished many tasks that included organizing the “Welcome to Leona Valley” book, screening scholarship applications for local and Antelope Valley College students, past Sertoma president and up until his passing was our Board Chairman (CEO). His biggest claim to fame was being the “top notch” cook and director for our annual St. Patrick’s Day dinner. I swear he hugged every portion of corned beef and vegetable that went into the boiling pot and reveled in the satisfaction of our guest’s faces when they took their first bite. Oh, YES, John knew it was a job well done and he truly felt the success of it all. You could tell by the twinkle in his blue eyes that matched his blue shirt.
John was a contributor, a patriot and a person who gave everything the best that he had ~ he was a soul who cared ~ he represented “Service to Mankind”.
With love and remembrance, Every Sertoma Member ~ Written by: Jan Clark

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Antelope Valley College and Leona Valley Sertoma Scholarships

Antelope Valley College and the Leona Valley Sertoma’s Scholarship Program

On January 7, 2023 our Leona Valley Sertoma club had the honor of hosting speaker, Emily Moulton who specializes in and organizes foundation scholarships. Emily shared that Antelope Valley College began in 1929 when they jointly combined with Lancaster Union High School with only an attendance of 100 students.

Charlene Moore and Emily Moulton in front of the Leona Valley Sertoma banner. Emily was the guest speaker about Antelope Valley College.
(L to R) – Charlene Moore, Sertoma President & Scholarship Chairperson and Emily Moulton, Scholarship Foundation Coordinator (Photograph by: Shirley Kraft)

To fast forward, regarding some of the Antelope Valley College history, the attendance extensively exceeded to more than 18,000 students in 1990 with a campus size of 135 acres. AND, as told by Emily Moulton, the enrollment will continue to grow in 2023 with an expected increase of 8,000 more students.

Thanks to a wonderful woman named Sandi Rogers, who was in charge of coordinating the scholarship foundation in 2013, Leona Valley Sertoma was introduced and invited to join the scholarship “giving” program. Our first $1,000 recipient was Yesinia Reyes who followed our criteria to major in deaf studies. Leona Valley Sertoma was the very first club to request this type of major. Up until this very day we are proud to have awarded $8,000 to special applicants. Our Scholarship Committee is preparing to screen our 2023 applicants, which will help us award that one deserving person the opportunity to broaden their educational experience under the leadership of Charlene Moore, Scholarship Chairperson and club President.

We encourage our local graduating students to check our website’s Scholarship Program that covers Green Valley, Elizabeth Lake, Lake Hughes, Three Points and Leona Valley. You will soon find a new 2023 entry form to be filled out that will explain ALL the required criteria. Our website is: www.leonavalleysertoma.org

Please remember that Leona Valley Sertoma hosts an 8am breakfast meeting on the first and third Saturday of each month. It is held at Jacks Place – 40352 90th St West in Leona Valley – we always have an open membership enrollment and would love to meet you. I am positive that you would love our “Service to Mankind” mission.

Respectfully written by: Jan Clark

April Rock – Sertoman of the Year 2022

April Rock – Sertoman of the Year 2022

April Rock moved to Leona Valley in mid-2020 and immediately began looking for a place she could go to participate in local events and help the community. Having previously been the PTA vice president for her daughters school, Girl Scout troop leader, organized a study pod for homeschooling during the pandemic and has spent many hours assisting at Muttville, she is no stranger to volunteering.

April Rock, Sertoman of the Year 2022.A native of the Antelope Valley, she has held many jobs in exciting and interesting places. Retail sales management while living on Maui, yacht insurance in downtown Seattle, and 15 years in the specialty food distribution market, managing customers all over the western United States. A creative person at heart, she started a business making handcrafted resin jewelry and has been marketing her products via craft fairs, pop-up markets and the internet.
To say April loves to travel is an understatement. Utilizing the unique opportunity the pandemic caused, she purchased an RV and traveled the country with her daughter and visited 27 states. She has backpacked through Thailand, spent a week in Malta, and many trips to Europe, including Ireland, France, Denmark, Holland, Sweden, Italy and Greece.

April has run the Dublin marathon, rode a bike from San Francisco to Los Angeles, completed many mud and obstacle runs, Ragnar, color run, and hiked and backpacked all over the state.

She is knowledgeable in many fields from design, to marketing to management. When she finds something she wants to do, she excels at it and doesn’t quit until she sees it through. She makes any organization she joins, better.

If you, like April, are looking for a place to volunteer and being part of a group of people interested in making a difference in your community, then you are encouraged to learn more about Leona Valley Sertoma. They meet at Jack’s Place on the first and third Saturdays of each month, at 8a.m., and welcome anyone interested in discovering what Sertoma is all about.

Leona Valley Sertoma Serves Up A FREE ~ Traditional Holiday Dinner

Leona Valley Sertoma Serves Up A FREE ~ Traditional Holiday Dinner

Leona Valley Sertoma hosted about 75 senior guests, 55 and over, (plus delivered more than 20 dinners) for the nonprofit service organization’s FREE Senior Dinner on Sunday, December 4, 2022. As always, our annual event provisions covered Green Valley, Lake Hughes, Elizabeth Lake, Three Points and, of course, Leona Valley. Due to the Covid 19 Pandemic, we had to cancel a couple of senior dinners. Needless to say, this year, the house was “rocking” and the fellowship was fabulous.

Our menu included turkey, ham, meatloaf (Juanita Kirkpatrick’s famous recipe), green beans, mashed potatoes & gravy, sweet potatoes, stuffing, cranberries, assorted desserts, coffee and punch.

Believe it or not, it took approximately 54 people that consisted of Sertoma members, community residents, 4-H Racketeers and the Leona Valley Queens who helped create a most successful holiday dinner. In other words, it didn’t take a village to get the job done, IT ACTUALLY TOOK A GRAND PORTION OF OUR COMMUNITY to get the job done!

In the past, Leona Valley Sertoma usually paid for the entire meal out of our members pockets ~ however, NOT THIS TIME. This year, from newly acquired grants and sponsorships from Cal Water, Smart & Final and Ashley Furniture, the entire expense of our meal was paid for.

Always remember that Sertoma’s main purpose is to focus on the hearing impaired, and we are committed to just that, and more. For the last eight years our group has provided a thousand dollar scholarship to one Antelope Valley College student who is majoring in deaf studies to pursue a career in helping the hearing impaired.

Three members, including two founding member, of Leona Valley Sertoma, pose for a photo at the Leona Valley Sertoma Holiday Dinner.
(L to R), Bev Brownfield, Shirley Kraft, Juanita Kirkpatrick.

This year it seemed most appropriate to honor two very important members who were the originators of Leona Valley Sertoma which, according to Bev Brownfield, was chartered in 1997. Both Juanita Kirkpatrick and Bev Brownfield engaged in a recent AV Press interview that provided so much of our original club’s foundation. Juanita stated that our club originally consisted of only men (the originator being Bob Mallicoat who acquired 25 men) and the women were later included.

Leona Valley Sertoma invites you to please visit our web site at: LeonaValleySertoma.org to better understand and visually enjoy the many events that we have provided to our community and public.

We encourage folks to join us on either a first or third Saturday of any month for an 8am complimentary breakfast at Jack’s Place ~ 40352 90 St. W., Leona Valley. WE WOULD LOVE TO MEET YOU!

ALL of our members are most grateful for EVERYONE’S continued support and generosity. WE wish you a wonderful Holiday Season. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.

Jan Clark