Womanless Beauty Pageant

The Clay County Livestock Club will be hosting a “WOMANLESS BEAUTY PAGEANT” – Saturday Night, August 14th at 6pm at the Lineville Elementary School Auditorium. $5 per person admission. All proceeds go to help the Clay County Livestock Club.

COME HEAR ABOUT PROGRAMS OFFERED BY THE NORTHEAST ALABAMA COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION

Open House for Parents

Tuesday July 6, 2010 6:00-7:30pm
(Old Ashland Housing Authority Building) 44 Runyan Court Ashland, AL

For more information contact our Ashland office at 256-354-0252 or our Anniston Office at 256-235-8018.
You can also email us at nealabamacdc@att.net.

• Project ALERT & Relationship Smarts- Summer Drug Prevention and Social Intervention Program sponsored by Northeast Alabama CDC. Grades:7-12 July 7-28 weekly. Call 256-354-0252 for more information.
• NANA VOLUNTEERS: Looking for energetic Nanas to help with preschool and youth programs at a local non-profit. Call 256-354-0252.
• HIPPY ENROLLMENT: Home Instruction for Parents of Preschool Youngsters (HIPPY) is a parent involvement, school readiness program that helps parents prepare their three, four, and five year old children for success in school and beyond. The parent is provided with a set of carefully developed curriculum, books and materials designed to strengthen their children’s cognitive skills, early literacy skills, social/emotional and physical development. This is a free program offered through Northeast Alabama Community Development Corporation. Call 256-354-0252.

Clay County Saddle Club Horse Show

The Clay County Saddle Club second horse show of the season is on June 12th at 2 pm. We are sponsoring Breast Cancer Awareness. For each entry, the Saddle Club will donate $1.00 per entry to the cure. If we raise $1000, our club president will make a lap around the arena on his horse in a pink dress. Come out and enjoy a great day of family fun. For more info, contact Lynn Williams  at 256-618-2565 or claycosaddleclub@yahoo.com.  If you wish to make a donation, mail to:

CLAY CO. SADDLE CLUB
P.O. BOX 1573
ASHLAND, AL. 36251

The Clay County Arts League invites you to a spring performance of The Clay County Women’s Chorus.  The program will be presented at 7:00 on Thursday, May 13, 2010 at the First United Methodist Church of Ashland.  The Women’s Chorus will be singing a variety of music including spirituals, gospel, show tunes, and folk songs.

A full chorus of men and women, as well as a men’s barbershop/gospel quartet and a trio will also be singing.

The Chorus will perform under the direction of Linda Rochester. A reception will follow.  Please come out and enjoy a wonderful evening of music.

2nd Annual Spirit Of The Wolf Pow Wow and Annual Kiowa Gourd Dance

May 28th, 29th and 30th, 2010

Hosted by: First Nations Outreach Project, A Native American 501 (C) 3 Non Profit Organization

Enitachopco Ceremonial Grounds
Ashland, Alabama

Host Drum: Sparrowhawk
Guest Drums interested should contact Jana Bland at 256-786-9821 to assure space availability.

Coordinator Jana Bland 256-786-9821 or email jana@wolfgardens.org
Assistant Co-coordinator Kim Powell 256-354-3070 or email kim@wolfgardens.org

To learn more about schedule of events, admission prices and hotel reservations, visit http://defendthewolves.org/blog/

The Clay County-based organization Citizens Protecting Constitutional Rights (CPCR) will hold its annual meeting and a political rally on Thursday 29 April at 6:00 P.M. at the Clay County Farmers Market.  After a brief business meeting and report on the status of the organization, there will be a political rally.  All candidates for county and area political offices have been contacted and invited to speak on their platforms.  Free hot dogs and soft drinks will be provided afterwards.  For more information, contact Rosemond Shannon at (205) 763-7280 or (256) 315-1123.

It has been said that you can never go home again.  Not so, because the Lineville High School Aggies are returning home for the day.  On the afternoon of June 12, 2010 from 1 to 5 pm,  all LHS classes from years 1960 – 1967 plus those from later classes who are members of the LHS Alumni Web Site, are being invited to join the Class of ’66 for an afternoon of great fun.  The return is called “Blast From The Past”.  If you are interested in organizing your class to attend “The Blast” then please visit the website Lineville High School Alumni website at http://lhsaggies.com/ and then click on June Blast in the main menu bar.

There is a link to downloadable document with all details – top left – right under the Ram head.

See ya there!

Youth Entrepreneurship Club Yard Sale and Bake Sale
Sponsored by The Clay County Children’s Policy Council and the Clay County Chamber of Commerce

Where: Clay County Farmer’s Market
When: Saturday, March 6th 7am – Noon

The goal is to teach our youth about entrepreneurship.
There will be youth from grades 1st – 12th and they will set up their own stores with LOTS of goodies from their rooms, mom & dad’s house, the garage etc. There will be something there for everyone it will NOT be just goodies for kids. We encourage you to come out and support our youth. We will be teaching the youth how to sell, market and set up a store and the youth get to keep the money they make from their own store.

Mandatory Meeting

On Monday, February 22nd at 6pm at the Clay County Farmer’s Market. All parents and youth MUST attend this meeting. This is to inform you about Saturdays Yard Sale. There will be guest speakers to talk to the youth about entrepreneurship. This is going to be a lot of fun and the youth will be learning at the same time.

For more information call Mary Patchunka-Smith at the Clay County Chamber of Commerce 256-396-2828 or e-mail claychamber@centurytel.net

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The Girl Scouts of North-Central Alabama needs your help to send Girl Scout Cookies to soldiers stationed overseas in Iraq and Afghanistan!  Anyone can purchase Cookies for Troops from a Girl Scout during booth sales at your local retailers.  GSNCA will coordinate the effort send to different units overseas. “Our goal is to send 10,000 boxes to troops overseas,” Hilary Perry, Director of Communications and Advocacy, states.  “Soldiers write back often and tell us how Girl Scout Cookies are a ‘little taste of home.’” People can still purchase Girl Scout Cookies from a booth sale (February 12-March 6) or go to their local service center. To find booth sales, people may visit www.girlscoutsnca.org starting February 1st and click on a link to find cookies. Or, they can email cookies@girlscoutsnca.org, and we will put someone in contact with you.

About Girl Scouts of North-Central Alabama

Girl Scouts of North-Central Alabama is a United Way community partner and serves more than 14,000 girls, ages 5-17, and an additional 5,000 in special programs across 36 counties, who are developing crucial life skills that help them grow courageous and strong so they can make wise choices in today’s world and beyond. For more information, call 800-734-4541 or log on to www.girlscoutsnca.org.

This brief history of programs of the Clay County Alabama Arts League has been provided by Linda Rochester, our Membership Vice President, in hopes that you will consider becoming a member this year.

VISUAL ARTS
Do you know some of these names:  Nina Faye Bonner, Alma Browning, Barbara Bryan, Carrie Lou Campbell, Mrs. L. D. Clark, Alice Cowan, Phil Cornelison, Robert Duke, Judith Hornsby Jordan, Mrs. Homer Hyche, Eleanor Mattox, Barbara Pace, Mrs. Avery Phillips, Mrs. Walton Phillips, and Bill Wilson.  These are some of the ground-breakers who brought the arts into Clay County in 1971 with an art gallery on the square of Ashland and plays in the county schools.  The foundation was laid to encourage and support our county’s artists.  Judith Jordan was the director of many of these early events.

“Through the Artist’s Eyes” has been showcasing local artists, for the past five years, as they exhibit their work at the Clay County Health and Wellness Center. Clay County has talent – painting, pottery, photography, wood working, glass sculpting!!  Exhibitors are: Dannielle Aldredge, Jennifer Alam, Frank Andrus, Dyla Carson Corinne Cox, Shirley Dawkins, Geneva Finley, Frank Foster, Jim Gasser, Toni Grossman, Jack Hadder, Danny Heard, Patsy Ingram, Pat Jenkins, Judith Jordan, Gordon Kendrick, Lori McCain, Tommy Moorehead, Jean Morgan, Ron Newsome, Dee Perkins, Nanette Perry, Kay Robertson, Sydney Saxon, Sarah Sparks, Carol Spivey, Launa Stan, the Robert Steele family, Bonnie Wheeles, and the 4-H school children from Ashland and Lineville. Dee Perkins is chairperson for this program.

DRAMA
Do you remember all of those plays and events put on over the past twenty years?  Here are a few:  A Christmas Carol, Purlie, The Wizard of Oz, The Lion The Witch and The Wardrobe, Peter Pan, You’re a Good Man Charlie Brown, South Pacific, Grease, The Music Man, Wolf  Tales, Smoke on the Mountain, Covering Dish, Friends Forever, A Mid-Summer Night’s Dream, That’s Entertainment, Aladdin and His Wonderful Magic Lamp,  Off-Broadway, a Gala Celebration for the Arts, The Rosa Parks Story, Through the Years Follies, The Great Southern Satire, Caroling on the Square, Made in the U. S. A., and Rumpelstiltskin.  Ken Yates, Diane Giddens, Linda Rochester, Vicki Birdsall, Sheryl Bonner, Chris Carr, Kathy Murphy, and Lori Steele are some of the directors of these stage productions.

The Seasoned Performers, a senior adult theater group from Birmingham that has performed for the past two years at The Historic Ashland Theatre, will return in the spring. Elizabeth Moore has been the chairperson of this event.

MUSIC
Summer Sizzle has been entertaining Clay County with free outdoor concerts on Thursdays in July since 2004. The music ranges from gospel and big band swing to local mariachi and country! Even fireworks are provided after the program closest to the 4th of July. April Ice and Barbara Pollard have been chairpersons of this event.

The Arts League joined with the Clay County Chorus in 2008 in order to bring mixed choral music to the forefront of Clay County life.  Ken Yates directed the Clay County Chorus in a winter performance of Christmas music and a spring performance of Broadway tunes. In December of 2009, the Clay County Women’s Chorus, under the direction of Linda Rochester, presented a program of Christmas music. Plans are underway to combine the men and women again in the near future.

ARTS PROGRAMS FOR CHILDREN / TEENS
We have been educating our children in the arts through Arts Camp since 1995.  We specialize in training young minds to love, cherish, and participate in the arts.  Some of the classes that have been offered are in singing, drama, music, pottery, drawing, painting, and even cooking! Murals completed by local artists and the children have been created and left behind as gifts to local schools. Many children attend Arts Camp every year on scholarship. The number of scholarships available depends on grants and donations received from the community. Kim Crist is the current chairperson for the camp. Tommy Moorehead, April Ice, Jennifer Alam, and Linda Rochester have also been chairpersons of our Arts Camps.

The Arts League has partnered with the school system on several occasions to bring theatre and visual artists into the county’s schools.

Scholarships have given by the Arts League to high school graduates who exhibit artistic ability and are entering further education in visual or performing arts.

If you have been a participant in one or more of our events or if you have been a part of our audience, you already know that we are in a continuous attempt to reinvent ourselves.

We have four meetings a year; the first is in October. All meetings are open, and we welcome your involvement.  The location of all Board meetings is in the Arts League Office in the Ashland Water Department Building. As a member, you may bring suggestions and business before the Board by contacting President Barbara Pollard.  Please consider attending our events and supporting the Clay County Arts League with your membership.  Dues for this year are $15 for individuals and $25 for families and businesses.  Your membership is important, because every dollar we raise locally is a dollar that can be matched for grant funding purposes.

Please don‘t let this opportunity pass. Join today! Mail your donation to P.O. Box 696, Ashland, AL 36251. This is one organization that has worked hard to earn your support.