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Pizza Party
Starting at 5 p.m. on Tuesday, April 8 at Flatbreads Company on Congress St. in Portsmouth. |
Mamapella
7 p.m. on Friday, April 11 at Christ Church, 43 Pine St. in Exeter. |
| If you'd like to sponsor a fund-raising event on our behalf, in your home or elsewhere, we look forward to hearing from you. E-mail us. |
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DECEMBER |
Thanks to Sole Sistahs who raised $4,000 for WOGS! |
Like the Womenade organization itself, friendship translated into helping neighbors. A local group
of runners, the Sole Sistahs,
donated almost $4,000 to Womenade of the Greater Seacoast in December. Many of the Sole Sistahs team members were struck by the positive and encouraging friendships that had been forged through running.
They decided to organize an all women's Reach the Beach Relay team,and at the same time raise money for Womenade, because they wanted to do something in
their community they all felt
strongly about. |
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Thanks to the generous sponsorship of Exeter Hospital, all 14 Sole Sistahs were able to donate their entry fees for the annual event. Some of the team members also raised additional
funds by sending out letters and getting individual sponsors, with
Helene-Marie Collins leading the way. The finally tally on this effort was more than $3,900! "The experience was rewarding and supportive on so many levels," Sole Sistah Emily Kerr wrote in an e-mail that it was
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great example of how groups and individuals
can pull together
to make a difference in their communities. |
Front: Patty Pangan, Emily Kerr, Helene-Marie Collins, Debbie Kane, Amy
Hage.
Back row: Jaye Carr, Holly Greenston, Nancy Potter, Cathleen Toomey, Lisa
Cochran,
Dee Dee McCarty, Heather Wheeler, Kathleen Babcock, Jendiss
Frizzell. |
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Wednesday, Oct. 10: Third Annual Comfort Soup |
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The company was as warm and comforting as the delicious home-
made soups served at the third
annual Comfort Soup fund raiser
for Womenade of the Greater
Squamscott. And soup tasters
were also generous. Womenade
raised nearly $1,500! |
Thank you to all who attended and
donated. Thanks also to Caroline Robinson of Berry Hill Farm
on Stratham Heights Road, who welcomed Womenade to her
barn for the third year in a row.
Hope to see you and your friends
at the barn next year! |
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Left to right: Kim Gardiner, Kittery, Maine, Mary Donovan, Board
member,
Sandy Roginski, both of Stratham, Susan Drinker, Board
member, Exeter
and Jen Hubbell, also of Stratham, enjoyed warm soup
and company at
he third annual Comfort Soup event at Berry Hill Farm
in Stratham. . |
Martha LaPerle, Cooperative Middle School nurse, has helped
many students and their families with assistance of Womenade |
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Tuesday, Aug. 23: Sunflowers for Womenade |
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Tuesday, Sept. 11: Craft Fare |
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Many of you came out for our Sunflower event, which raised roughly $1200 for Womenade. Special thanks to Amy Frye, Lena Natola, Susan Drinker, Paul Ford and Bud from Memories Photography Studio for making this event such a success! The picture, courtesy of Memories, features Paul Ford,
principal
of the Main Street School with the Board
of
Directors for Womenade of Greater Squamscott. Click the following for more info and photos on the event
:In the news. |
The evening of crafts t in
Stratham raised more
than
$2,600 for Womenade.
Thank
you to all our vendors
and shoppers.
We hope you
had
fun
and left with beautiful
gifts. Hope to see you all
again next year! |
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About 45
women
helped
Womenade
of Greater
Squamscott celebrate its
second anniversary at Elements, a new fitness center for women in Exeter. The results of the
last two years have
been impressive.
Karen Monaco, treasurer
of Womenade,
reported that since the organization's
inception, $42,000 had been raised and
given back to the community.
“We thank you for allowing us to allocate it,”
she said.
Other members of the Board related
stories about how the money has helped |
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people in the area, like the homeless family
in need of food and a security deposit. Womenade also financed car repairs so
that an
area
resident would
be able to
drive to
the hospital
for dialysis. Attendees
also honored Kari Lazarowich,
who has stepped down from the board.
She has been integral to the success of Womenade since its inception.
“Every
design, every invitation, every piece of
paper that has to do with Womenade
was
Kari’s creation, and we can’t thank her
enough,” said Mary Jane Keene,
board member. |
Cady Taylor and former Womenade Board Member
Katy Langhorst joined many other women
at
Elements
in Exeter to celebrate the
second anniversary of Womenade.
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Friday, Feb. 16: Potluck Fundraiser at Women Supporting Women Center |
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Womenade Board Members joined founder and director Claire Houston at the WSW
center
for good food and warm company along with other Exeter area women.
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E-Mail Womenade if you would like to host a fundraising
event
to help us help your neighbors. |
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Friday, Dec. 31: Benefit Recital |
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Linsey-Jean Moretti
Tufts,
a UNH
Voice student,
gave a New Year's Eve
concert and donated
the proceeds to
Womenade of Greater
Squamscott |
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Thursday, Nov. 2: ADE Groups Join Forces |
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New Hampshire's own queen of comedy, Cindy Pierce performed "Finding the Doorbell," her story about her intimate
hunt for an "owner's manual to the place where we all came from„" for 300 women and a handful of men at the Frank Jones Center in Portsmouth.
Grown men were laughing so hard
they were crying," one audience
member said. |
"As for the women, well, she had them
at the doorbell."
Womenade of Greater Squamscott,
Womenaid of Greater Portsmouth,
Womenade of the Hamptons
and Oyster River Womenade hosted
the event. Together the ADE groups
raised $10,000.
Nearly $2,200 of that
amount came back to help families living
in the Greater Squamscott community. |
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October: Second Annual Soup Tasting |
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Wednesday, Feb. 1: First Birthday
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Caroline Robinson donated the use of her barn in
Stratham for the annual soup-tasting event, which
raised more than $6,600 in two years. The crisp fall
air was filled with mouth-watering aromas of the
first and best comfort food -- homemade soup. |
The First Anniversary of Womenade
of Greater Seacoast was celebrated
at the Stratham Community
Church with a cake tasting event. |
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