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Winning Charity September 5th

Greetings Ladies,

Thank you to all of you who were at the meeting last night and listened to presentations from our recipient from May and the charities vying for this meeting’s donations.

Thank you to Shirley from Niagara Children’s Village who let us know what our donations were used for at the Children’s Village.

Congratulations to our winning charity from last night, The Brain Injury Association of Fort Erie & South Niagara. Thank you Jonna for your great nomination and presentation for this charity.

Brain Injury Association of Fort Erie & South Niagara

In 1987, Jackie Denham and Shirley Athoe founded the Brain Injury Association of Fort Erie (BIAFE), one of Ontario’s earliest BIAs (Brain Injury Associations), out of sheer necessity and compassion. Inspired by their son’s journey with acquired brain injuries and the absence of local support networks, Jackie and Shirley took it upon themselves to create a community where individuals facing similar challenges could connect, share experiences, and provide vital support to one another. The vision wasn’t just about their family’s needs but also about fostering an inclusive environment where all families impacted by brain injuries could find solace and assistance. Through their initiative, they not only established hope but also laid the groundwork for countless others to find understanding and solidarity in their journey toward recovery and acceptance.

Our mission is to provide unwavering support, advocacy, and resources to individuals and families affected by brain injuries. We strive to enhance understanding and acceptance while promoting resilience and empowerment.

We envision a future where every person affected by a brain injury receives compassionate care, comprehensive resources, and opportunities for recovery and participation in society.

BIAFE continues to be a beacon of hope for our community.

To donate: https://www.canadahelps.org/en/dn/60301

Charity Number: 127049484RR0001

Please use the donate button above and where it asks “In Honour of” please put 100+ Women Niagara so we can keep track of our donations.

If you wish to do cash or cheque please message me and we can arrange that as well.

Thank you ladies for your continued support of our organization. Together we can grow to more than 100+ Women. Changing Niagara 1 meeting at a time!

See you in November!

 

Blessings,

Debbie Pine

 

 

 

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September 5, 2024 Meeting

Hello Ladies. I hope everyone is enjoying their summer and this beautiful weather that we have been having.

Our next meeting will be on Thursday, September 5th. The doors will open at 6:30 pm with the meeting starting at 7:00 pm.

Please ask a family member or friend to join you and let’s grow this organization together.

We will hear from “The Children’s Safety Village” for a few minutes on where your monies were spent.

Looking forward to seeing everyone and hopefully lots of new faces.

Any questions or concerns please reach out to me by email or text me at 905 321 2261

Cheers
Debbie Pine
100+ Women Niagara Chairperson

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May 2 Winning Charity

Greetings Ladies,
Thank you so much for coming out to our resurrected 100+ Women group last night. It was so nice to see some familiar faces and some new faces too.
I am so excited to see where this will lead. I am thankful and grateful for all your help and support.
A huge thank you goes out to the Grantham Youth Optimist Club for allowing us to use their space for our meetings. Thank you Jonna Wolfenberg, for all your hard work securing this space. We will be meeting here for our meetings in the future.
Last night we heard from these amazing charities, Niagara Safety Village, Red Roof Retreat and Heart Niagara. The winning charity chosen was Niagara Safety Village.

What is Niagara Safety Village?

The Niagara Safety Village is an interactive education centre with a miniature village located on site. The instructors are police officers, auxiliary police officers, firefighters, paramedics, and emergency management team members. The goal is to teach personal safety and injury prevention to school-age children. Students get the chance to participate in different activities, demonstrating all they have learned inside the classroom. The children learn to have fun while being safe!

Safety and Fun

There safety activities for everyone all year long! Some of the activities include:

  • Traffic Safety
  • Personal Safety
  • Bus Safety
  • Bullying
  • Drug and Alcohol Awareness
  • Internet Safety
  • Fire Prevention
  • Disaster Ready Tips
  • Holiday Fun
Safety Village
Thank you to the ladies that left their donation last night. Below is the online donation link. When you click on the link and donate, please make sure you include 100+ Women Niagara in the remarks.
Please feel free to share this email with any family and friends that may be interested in joining us. Together we can make a difference.
Any questions or concerns please feel free to contact me directly at 905 321 2261.
See you in September.
Cheers
Debbie Pine
Chairperson
100+ Women Niagara
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100+ Women Niagara is being Resurrected!!

Greetings Ladies,

I have great news to share! Finally, after lots of hurdles/roadblocks we are starting up 100+ Women Niagara again. We are a small but powerful group of women and I am praying and hoping everyone is able to come back and continue to grow our organization with their support.

I am asking you to grab a friend or 5 and come out to our first meeting of 2024 in May.

We have secured space for our meetings. It will be the same place each time. Meetings will be held at the Optimist Youth Centre located at 188 Linwell Road in St. Catharines. Meeting will start at 7:00 pm with doors opening at 6:30 pm.

Give us an hour of your time (for four times a year), commit $100 each meeting, and see how we are impacting the lives of people of Niagara. Please share this with all the women you know and together let’s make 100+ Women Niagara the BEST ever. The organization needs you!

We will be meeting on Thursdays on the following dates for the 2024 Session:

May 2, 2024

September 5, 2024

November 7, 2024

May 6, 2025

Any questions please call me at 905 321 2261. I look forward to seeing you and many new faces as we embark on this next chapter.

 

Cheers,

Debbie Pine                                                                                                    Chairperson                                                                                                                      100+ Women Niagara

 

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Winning Charity – September 28

Greetings Ladies,
Thank you to everyone who attended our last meeting. A big thank you to Amanda from Women’s Place of South Niagara who provided us with an update on the last meeting winning donations. Another great organization who we were able to help.
This meeting’s winning charity was Victoria’s Quilts presented to the members by Nancy Cook & Marty Hatfield/. Thank you, ladies.
Here is a little about Victoria’s Quilts from Beverley Bellingham.
I again just want to say Thank You so much. Any donations received will be used locally to purchase backing and batting to make the quilts that we deliver to individuals who are living with cancer.  As you know this is a completely volunteer run organization so donations like this are so important for us to be able to continue to supply these quilts to individuals.
If anyone has any questions I would be more than pleased to answer them and I encourage individuals to check out the website and if they know of an individual living with cancer and want to sent them a “warm hug” please don’t hesitate to fill out a request form
Thanks again.
PLEASE READ THE INSTRUCTIONS BELOW AND FOLLOW THEM SO THE NIAGARA BRANCH RECEIVES ALL THE MONIES DONATED BY 100+ WOMEN NIAGARA.
Individuals just need to hit the “donate now” button and then where it says “fund” there is a drop down screen and the individuals will need to pick “Hamilton/Niagara branch”. If that isn’t chosen the money will go to the National account instead of being transfer to our branch locally.  Also if they put 100+ Women Who Care Niagara, in the message box we will then know that it is from the wonderful women in this group who are supporting us.
https://www.victoriasquiltscanada.com/

Thank you again ladies…..please help me to grow this chapter back to our 100+ members.
Hopefully, November’s meeting will be in person….trying my best!!
Mark your calendars, the next meeting will be:
Wednesday November 30, 2022 
Thank you and have a fabulous day.
Cheers,
Debbie Pine
Chairperson

100+ Women Niagara

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September 28th Meeting

Welcome to our Fall session for 100+ Women Who Care Niagara.
I hope everyone had a nice summer season and are ready for a gorgeous Fall season….Sweaters & Boots…my favourite time of year 🙂
Our September meeting will be Wednesday, September 28, 2022 at 7:00 pm. via Google Meets. We will start registration at 6:45 pm. Below is the link.
If you can, please invite family and friends, and please share the link.
Let’s grow our numbers this year. I know we have lots more than 100 women in Niagara who care about local charities and would love to be part of our amazing group. You can also share the website www.100womenniagara.com

If they want more information about who and what we are. We have a awesome group of women here and I hope everyone spreads the word about the fabulous work we do.

Last meeting Women’s Place of South Niagara was our winning recipient so we will be hearing from Amanda with an update.
Please send your nominations for the meeting as soon as possible. Much appreciated.
I have tried several locations to do an in person meeting but no one will donate a space for us….so our meetings will continue in google meets for now. Still hoping for the November meeting to be in person….if anyone has a contact for space please let me know….
Here is the link to the meeting:
      meet.google.com/izo-ynkr-tsg
      Dial-in: (CA) +1 226-315-8721

PIN: 628 887 759#Mark your calendars, the next meeting will be:

Wednesday November 30, 2022 
See you Wednesday!
Thank you and have a fabulous day.

Cheers,
Debbie Pine
Chairperson

100+ Women Niagara

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May 25th Winning Charity

Greetings Ladies,
Thank you to all of you who attended the meeting last night.  It was awesome to see so many new members and many more ladies on the call.
We heard from Devin McDowell from Niagara Falls Community Outreach Soup Kitchen who explained to the ladies where our donations were spent. Thank you, Devin. Great information.
Also, as I stated last night our next meeting on September 28, 2022 will be in person….woohoo….location TBD
We had presentations from 3 amazing organizations last night…..
Horse Cents for Children brought forward by Suzanne Pellerin
Women’s Place brought forward by Anna Petrie
Victoria’s Quilts brought forward by Nancy Cook
All three charities did heartfelt presentations, it was really difficult to choose one….but in the end Women’s Place was our chosen recipient.
Please follow the link and make your donations today.
Here is the link to donate:
https://de.womensplacesn.org/donations/donate
Please use the drop down menu and state 100+ Women Niagara so we can track our donations.
Any questions or concerns please feel free to reach out to me.
Thank you for your time and have a fabulous night…. and we will see you in September.

Cheers,

Debbie Pine

Chairperson,

100 Women Who Care Niagara

905 321 2261

www.100womenniagara.com

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May 25th Meeting

Greetings Ladies,
Our next scheduled meeting is Wednesday, May 25th starting at 7
The link has been emailed for the meeting.
Currently we have 3 nominations for next week. They are:
Horse Cents for Children brought forward by Suzanne Pellerin
Women’s Place brought forward by Anna Petrie
Victoria’s Quilts brought forward by Nancy Cook
If you would like to nominate a charity please email me and let me know and I will add.
Hopefully, the next meeting will be in person, although some members are still reluctant to come in person. I will see what we can do.
Last meeting’s winning charity was Niagara Falls Community Outreach Soup Kitchen and was presented by Kim McDowell. We will be hearing from them about where our donations were used for.
Hopefully everyone can attend and invite a friend or two.
Any questions or concerns please feel free to reach out to me.
Have a fabulous day and we will see you next week.

Cheers,

Debbie Pine

Chairperson,

100 Women Who Care Niagara

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February 23, 2022 Meeting

Greetings Ladies and welcome to a brand new year. We will have our first meeting on Wednesday, February 23, 2022 staring at 7:00 pm. We will begin registration at 6:45 pm. I hope to see you all there.
Our last winning recipients Community Crew & Foster Festival will update us about where your donations were used.
Please invite family and friends and let’s grow our numbers this year. The link will be sent to members via email so please check your emails and join us on Wednesday.
We are going to be trying to meet in person at least twice a year so hopefully we will see more members join in.
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Winning Charity for November 2021

Hello Ladies,

Thank you to all who attended our meeting.

The Foster Festival will be presenting next meeting as there was a conflict with them meeting last Thursday with us.

Congratulations to this meeting’s winning charity…. Community Crew. Thank you to Bobbie Corcoran for her nomination.

Community Crew started at Edith Cavell school in Western hill, St. Catharines in 2013 when teachers noticed children coming to school without lunches and they wanted to help. Today over 1500 children in 26 schools within the Niagara Region receive a boxed lunch from Community Crew three days a week. Community Crew continues to expand with a Fort Erie branch just opening this month.

Community Crew is run by a volunteer board of directors and employs five staff. Staff are responsible for sourcing and purchasing food, sourcing and working with corporate donors as well as school boards, school principals and teachers. Principals from schools within Niagara identify children in their schools that are in need. The full time staff and volunteers prepare the lunches and volunteers deliver them to the schools. Students within the school sort the lunches by classroom and deliver the lunches to the children in need making them feel special. Extra care is taken to ensure this is a positive experience for the children. One school even has their grade eight students dress in dark pants and a white shirt like a restaurant server to deliver these special meals.
A lunch usually consists of a wrap, a protein like a chicken finger, piece of ham or a hard boiled egg, carrots, cucumber, a piece of fruit and a snack. The lunch is packed in a good grade box that is recycled and no plastics are used. Some food is purchased and some is donated by local farmers or associations like the Canadian Egg producers. Notes of encouragement are made by volunteers and included in the Tuesday lunch packages.
Covid has increased demand with some schools now requiring double to triple the number of lunches pre COVID.
For the past two years the annual fundraising ball has not taken place although a virtual ball was held last year.
Community crew is dedicated to providing nutritious lunches and hope to children that need it the most. Children that go hungry can’t concentrate so they don’t learn and by providing lunch we are helping students get the education they need to establish a successful life.
Currently an anonymous donor is matching all contributions made up to $60k. To date over $12k has been donated so our donations will be matched dollar for dollar. So our donations will be matched!
To make your donation online go to https://www.communitycrew.ca/ and click on the “Make a donation today” button. To track the donations made by 100+ Women enter “100+ Women Who Care” under the company name.
Upcoming meetings will be:
Wednesday, February 23, 2022 (Zoom Meeting)
Wednesday, May 25, 2022 (We are going to try to meet in person and/or by Zoom, whichever you are comfortable doing. Details to follow)
Wednesday, September 28, 2022 (We are going to try to meet in person and/or by Zoom, whichever you are comfortable doing. Details to follow)
Thank you again for all your continued support and bringing new members to join!
Have a safe and joyous holiday season. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! See you in 2022!

 

 

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