{"id":13742,"date":"2016-02-22T14:10:26","date_gmt":"2016-02-22T19:10:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mcreativepr.com\/?p=13742"},"modified":"2016-02-22T14:10:26","modified_gmt":"2016-02-22T19:10:26","slug":"junior-league-to-celebrate-50th-anniversary-tickets-and-tables-now-on-sale-for-60s-inspired-affair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mcreativepr.com\/2016\/02\/22\/junior-league-to-celebrate-50th-anniversary-tickets-and-tables-now-on-sale-for-60s-inspired-affair\/","title":{"rendered":"Junior League to celebrate 50th Anniversary; Tickets and tables now on sale for \u201860s inspired affair"},"content":{"rendered":"

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FORT MYERS,\u00a0Fla. (Feb. 22, 2016) \u2013 To celebrate its 50th<\/sup>\u00a0Anniversary, the Junior League of Fort Myers<\/a> will be holding \u201cA \u201860s Coastal Affair\u201d at 6 p.m. on Saturday, April 23 at Barbara B. Mann Performing Arts Hall.<\/p>\n

The \u201860s chic themed event is open to the public and promises an evening full of fun, food, dancing, open bar and a silent auction 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

Sponsors for\u00a0the Junior League\u2019s 50th<\/sup>\u00a0Anniversary include\u00a0Scanlon Auto Group, Guardian Retirement Services, Palm Casual, Barbara B. Mann Performing Arts Hall, Myers, Brettholtz & Company, PA and Harrell, Tolp & Albright Realtors.<\/p>\n

Sponsorships are still available. For more information, email\u00a0events@jlfm.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Early-bird entrance prices are available until April 1 and are $85 per person, $150 per couple, and tables of eight are $575.\u00a0Proceeds from the event will support the Junior League\u2019s work in the community. To purchase tickets or tables, please visit\u00a0www.jlfm.org<\/a>.<\/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 its 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 Junior\u00a0League,\u00a0call\u00a0239-277-1197 or\u00a0visit\u00a0www.jlfm.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

FORT MYERS,\u00a0Fla. (Feb. 22, 2016) \u2013 To celebrate its 50th\u00a0Anniversary, the Junior League of Fort Myers will be holding \u201cA \u201860s Coastal Affair\u201d at 6 p.m. on Saturday, April 23…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,1],"tags":[2590,1366,3569,6268,1053,3688,6110,6269,6270,6272,6273,4355,6271,6279,6274,6275,6277,4360,2403,6276,6278,4738,16,1046,6280,1072,716,2018,672,5428,4217,2595,4294,19,2542,4219,5429,2596],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcreativepr.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13742"}],"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=13742"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mcreativepr.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13742\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcreativepr.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcreativepr.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcreativepr.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}