{"id":12695,"date":"2015-06-24T14:04:21","date_gmt":"2015-06-24T18:04:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mcreativepr.com\/?p=12695"},"modified":"2015-06-24T14:04:21","modified_gmt":"2015-06-24T18:04:21","slug":"junior-league-awards-members","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mcreativepr.com\/2015\/06\/24\/junior-league-awards-members\/","title":{"rendered":"Junior League awards members"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Diane Snyder & Sasha Warren<\/p>\n

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Danielle Lucht & Shavon Chester<\/p>\n

FORT MYERS,\u00a0Fla. (June 23, 2015) \u2013 The Junior League of Fort Myers, Inc.<\/a> recently announced its 2015 member awards at its annual dinner in May.<\/p>\n

The Rising Star awards for new members went to Diane Snyder and Kerry Pirrone. The Junior League\u2019s Outstanding Service awards were presented to Leah Armstrong, Jessica Steinberg, Amelia May, Alex Hamley and Carol Feskanin. Shavon Chester received the President\u2019s Award, and Sandra Raak was awarded the Sustainer Impact Award. Special Committee Recognition went to the 32nd<\/sup>\u00a0Annual Taste of the Town committee for its outstanding performance in 2014.<\/p>\n

Since 1966, the Junior League of Fort Myers, Inc. has contributed more than one million volunteer hours to community projects and programs.<\/p>\n

Since its founding in 1901 by social activist Mary Harriman, the Junior League has evolved into one of the oldest, largest and most effective women\u2019s volunteer organizations in the world, encompassing 150,000 women in 292 Leagues in four countries. Its mandate has remained the same: to develop exceptionally qualified civic leaders who collaborate with community partners to identify a community\u2019s most urgent needs and address them with meaningful and relevant programs and initiatives that not only improve lives but also change the way people think.<\/p>\n

Through the decades, the JLFM has made major contributions to Southwest Florida to support a wide variety of community needs including founding the Calusa Nature Center and Planetarium (1973), the Volunteer Service Bureau \u2013 Volunteer Action Center \u2013 now known as Volunteer Center (1992),<\/p>\n

Teen Court (1992) and the Women\u2019s Resource Center (1996). It has also been active in feeding the hungry in the five-county area through the food drive at the annual Taste of the Town, mentoring teenage girls in foster care, supporting self defense for women, preparing women to re-enter the workforce, creating a listening library for cancer patients, preserving historic architecture, supporting the Ronald McDonald House, distributing holiday food baskets, organizing holiday gift drives, providing gender-specific programming to teenage girls in juvenile justice, supplying backpacks to children in Harlem Heights Community and more.<\/p>\n

A\u00a0member\u00a0of\u00a0the\u00a0Association of\u00a0Junior\u00a0Leagues\u00a0International,\u00a0Inc., the Junior League of Fort Myers, Inc. is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit\u00a0organization founded in 1966 and made up of\u00a0women\u00a0committed to promoting\u00a0voluntarism, developing the potential of\u00a0women\u00a0and improving\u00a0the\u00a0community\u00a0through the\u00a0effective\u00a0action\u00a0and leadership of\u00a0trained volunteers.\u00a0Its\u00a0purpose\u00a0is exclusively\u00a0educational and\u00a0charitable.\u00a0The JLFM is also a granting organization, providing mini-grants to organizations throughout Southwest Florida\u2019s five-county area to programs that create better life outcomes for our area\u2019s youth. JLFM memberships are open to all women aged 21 and older of all races, religions and national origin who demonstrate an interest in and commitment to voluntarism.<\/p>\n

For\u00a0more\u00a0information,\u00a0call\u00a0239-277-1197 or\u00a0visit\u00a0www.jlfm.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Sasha Warren & Jessica Steinberg<\/p>\n

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Sasha Warren & Amelia May<\/p>\n

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Sasha Warren & Alex Hamley<\/p>\n

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Leah Armstrong & Sasha Warren<\/p>\n

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Kerry Pirrone & Sasha Warren<\/p>\n

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Danielle Lucht & Sandra Raak<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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