2013 Photo Contest A Success!

Best of Show Winner

Thank you to all who entered our 5^th annual Amateur Photography Contest. We had so much fun we are already looking forward to next year.

The weather was perfect and the Spring Daze crowds enjoyed looking at all the wonderful submissions.

The winners were:

Adult  Animals 1st Place  Leona Long
Adult    Animals    2nd Place    Cyndi Goetcheus Sarfan
Adult    Animals    3rd Place    Ashley Hutchinson
Adult    Landscape    1st Place    Cyndi Goetcheus Sarfan
Adult    Landscape    2nd Place    Julie Bradley
Adult    Landscape    3rd Place    Edward Wenzel
Adult    People    Best of Show    David Brown
Adult    People    2nd Place    Cathy Przekaza
Adult    People    3rd Place    Melissa Vanwey
Teen    Animals    1st Place    Jonathan Canfield
Teen    Animals    2nd Place    Kelsey Hinton
Teen    Animals    3rd Place    Katlyn Hinton
Teen    People    1st Place    Manon Scorneaux
Teen    People    2nd Place    Zoe Groves
Youth    Animals    1st Place    Natasha Verplank
Youth    Animals    2nd Place    Natasha Verplank
Youth    Animals    3rd Place    Quinn Groves
Youth    People    1st Place    Sydney Cook

By popular vote, the winner of the People's Choice Award was Saskia Leary.

2013 Photo Contest Now Open!

Calling all shutterbugs!  The Cary Jaycees are hosting the 5th Annual Amateur Photography Contest as part of Cary's Spring Daze Festival.  Categories include People, Animals, and Landscape and is open to all age groups.  Winning photographs will be awarded prizes/ribbons.  Entries must be postmarked/received by April 19, 2013 and will be on display for viewing at the Boat House (Bond Park) during Spring Daze on April 27th.  Find out more, including how and where to submit entries, click here.

Leadership Board and Hearts Expanded

At our February General Membership Meeting, Charles Krupinski, was sworn in as a general board member. Charles is also a member of the Raleigh Jaycees. We are very excited to work on Charles’ great ideas and that our board isn’t all women anymore! Charles has been in many Jaycees leadership and chair positions.

We stuffed a van full of donations for the Boys and Girls Home of North Carolina. The Boys and Girls home provides a loving foster environment for children who have been abused or neglected. Representative Gary Green from the home filled us with inspiration by telling us about some of the residents of the Home and the excitement of the Charter School they are working on. It is one thing to raise funds or collect donations, but it is even more awesome to see those things at work!

Welcome to the Board, Charles!

Spreading Some Love

The Cary Jaycees enjoyed getting together to make Valentines for the residents of the Cary Health & Rehabilitation Center. Co-chairs Karen and Jamie supplied craft items and several members and their families spent Sunday afternoon pasting, cutting, and being creative. The Valentines were hand delivered by the co-chairs and their families on Valentine’s Day.

Thinking of Christmas 2013 Already?

Thank you to everyone who participated in and attended the 2012 Christmas Parade. We all had a wonderful time and the weather was perfect. Details and registration for the 2013 parade will be posted in August. Please contact us if you are interested in serving on the planning committee.

We’d also like to thank the Town of Cary Solid Waste staff and Spruce Volunteers.  A total of 15 volunteers worked 30 collective hours to collect 16 bags of trash and 9 bags of recycling. That’s amazing!