{"id":13360,"date":"2015-11-06T12:50:13","date_gmt":"2015-11-06T17:50:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mcreativepr.com\/?p=13360"},"modified":"2015-11-06T12:50:13","modified_gmt":"2015-11-06T17:50:13","slug":"13360","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mcreativepr.com\/2015\/11\/06\/13360\/","title":{"rendered":"Junior League announces 50th Anniversary Golden Jubilee; Event to take place Saturday, April 2, 2016 at JetBlue Park"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Print\"<\/a><\/p>\n

FORT MYERS,\u00a0Fla. (Nov. 6, 2015) \u2013 To celebrate its 50th\u00a0anniversary, the Junior League of Fort Myers, Inc.<\/a> will be holding a Golden Jubilee celebration at 6 p.m. on Saturday, April 2, 2016 at JetBlue Park at Fenway South.<\/p>\n

According to Golden Jubilee Chair Amelia May, the event is open to the public and promises an evening full of fun and food, as well as a historical look back at the Junior League\u2019s 50 years of volunteering and making a difference in Southwest Florida.<\/p>\n

A cocktail hour will be followed by a silent auction and dinner, a celebration of the League\u2019s charter members and past presidents, as well as live music and dancing.<\/p>\n

The theme is coastal chic.<\/p>\n

\u201cThink vintage Palm Beach and Trina Turk,\u201d May said. \u201cGentlemen should feel free to wear their fedoras, linen and seersucker suits.\u201d<\/p>\n

Sponsors for\u00a0the Junior League\u2019s 50th\u00a0Anniversary Gala include\u00a0Scanlon Auto Group, Guardian Retirement Services and Myers, Brettholtz & Company, PA.<\/p>\n

Sponsorship opportunities are still available. For more information, email\u00a0AmeliaMayJLFM@gmail.com.<\/p>\n

Individual tickets are $125 each, and tables of eight are $1,000 each.\u00a0Proceeds from the event will go to support the Junior League\u2019s work in the community. To purchase tickets or tables, visit\u00a0www.jlfm.org.<\/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),\u00a0Teen 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\u00a0Junior\u00a0League\u00a0of\u00a0Fort\u00a0Myers,\u00a0Inc. is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit\u00a0organization 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 through out 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.\u00a0For\u00a0more\u00a0information\u00a0about\u00a0the JLFM,\u00a0call\u00a0239-277-1197 or\u00a0visit\u00a0www.jlfm.org.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

FORT MYERS,\u00a0Fla. (Nov. 6, 2015) \u2013 To celebrate its 50th\u00a0anniversary, the Junior League of Fort Myers, Inc. will be holding a Golden Jubilee celebration at 6 p.m. on Saturday, April…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,1],"tags":[29,5693,80,284,663,4355,5694,5695,5696,5697,3088,5698,664,4360,2403,1178,1382,16,1046,1072,672,4217,19,2542,2649,4219,2596],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcreativepr.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13360"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcreativepr.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcreativepr.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcreativepr.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcreativepr.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13360"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mcreativepr.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13360\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcreativepr.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcreativepr.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcreativepr.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}