I Need Your Help: Junior Achievement Bowl-A-Thon

I am excited to be supporting Junior Achievement's economic education programs as a Bowl-a-thon participant.

It is estimated that about half of our young people leave school without the knowledge or foundation required to find and hold a job. The main reason is that they lack hope. Junior Achievement programs show our youth how they can take advantage of the many opportunities that are available to them through the free enterprise system and how to prosper in it.

If you would like to make a donation please visit my website.
For more information on Junior Achievement follow the link to the right under Recommended Links.
Thank you for your help...if you have any questions, call me!

Alessia Andrae

I Lived In My Backpack!

Calling all Ivie employees ...
IVIE CARES BACKPACK DRIVE '08!

We all had one; that glorious protector of our stuff from a strange & confusing world, that place where only we could go: our backpack. Old tater tots, the math homework we thought we didn’t do, gym shorts, somebody’s phone number that fate never let us find again. When we thought we might have forgotten something, our backpack picked up the slack (unless we forgot your backpack, but that is another story).

IVIE CARES in cooperation with GRACE is asking all IVIE employees to once again step up and give a kid something that will make their day just a little easier. These children desperately need to have successful educational experiences to make a change in their lives, and carrying books around with papers sticking out, and supplies falling out of their pockets just won’t cut it.

Be a part of the IVIE CARES BACK PACK DRIVE ’08!
Monday, August 4th-Thursday, August 14th.
NEW BACKPACKS are needed for kids Pre-K – 12. Our goal is 500.
We need a variety of colors, but recommend people sticking to solid colors and to stay away from cartoon characters.

For those in Flower Mound, donation bins will be located in the upstairs & downstairs lobbies. For those in the field, please use the reference "IVI 118 Backpack" to ship all donations to arrive in Flower Mound no later than the morning of Friday the 15th. Please keep it to 1 shipment so we can keep our costs down.

Cash/check donations are also welcomed.

IVIE HAS CLASS!! BE COOL, HELP A KID GET BACK TO SCHOOL!

For more information, please contact CINDY FLENAR (XT.5265 cindy.flenar@ivieinc.com) or CHRIS RAY (XT.5377 chris.ray@ivieinc.com).

JC Penney’s, Kohl’s and Walgreens have had recent backpack sales. Please check back here for updates on major dept. store specials.

For more information on GRACE please follow the link to the right under Recommended Links.

Outcome of the Dog Days Event

Thank you to everyone who donated and helped with the Dog Days fundraiser for Kindred Spirits. In particular, I want to thank Leala Ulrich, Tami Pace, Meagan Vaughn, Linda Miller, Laura Avila and Bonnie Lacombe for their help organizing and planning the week's events.

We raised $664 for Kindren Spirits which is outstanding. If you are interested in more information about Kindred Spirits they can be reached at kindredspiritsresq@sbcglobal.net.

Cutest Pet Contest Winners
Cutest Pet - Oliver
(Owner: Bekah Randolph)



Cutest Cat - Mia
(Owner: Chris Ray)



Cutest Dog - Oscar
(Owner: Meagan Vaughn)



We also want to mention that Oliver, the Cutest Pet Winner above, as well as Dobie (below) were chosen to be in the Sam's Holiday Catalog.

Dobie
(Owner: Bonnie Lacombe)



Raffle Winners
1 month covered parking - Jerry Raign
Mary's Q.'s famous strawberry cake - Kevin White
$35 gift certificate for grooming at Trinity - Leala Ulrich