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October 2011
What does Kids in the Kitchen have to do with Halloween?
Not much. KITK programs typically take place in the spring. Halloween, well, you know. KITK focuses on helping children make healthy choices about food and nutrition. Halloween, well, you know.…
Breast Cancer Awareness Month
The month of October, now recognized around the world as Breast Cancer Awareness Month, brings to the forefront of our minds an illness that has touched each and everyone of…
Do we really need a national Food Day?
Well, we have one now. October 24 is the first annual Food Day in the United States. Sponsored by an advocacy group called Center for Science in the Public Interest,…
“Read Across California” Resolution Becomes Law!
On September 6, 2011, Assembly Concurrent Resolution 62 (ACR 62) Read Across California was chaptered into law. This resolution was sponsored by the Junior League of Los Angeles and authored…
Sandra Day O'Connor – Living a Life of Civic Leadership
It may be difficult for women who weren’t there at the time to understand, but Sandra Day O’Connor’s swearing in as a Justice of the Supreme Court of the United…
Bringing Diapers to Babies in Need
How high is a pile of 226,559 diapers? We don’t really know, but that’s how many disposable diapers 26 Junior Leagues collected in the first year of Kimberly-Clark’s Huggies® Every…
Are You Ready for the Holidays? (We Are.)
Junior Leagues have, for decades, created and run some amazing projects addressing big problems like childhood obesity, women’s health, illiteracy, alcoholism and foster care. So it’s ironic that many community…
Women, War & Peace. And You.
Those are big topics. And you are invited to participate. It’s a concrete demonstration of the collective power of the more than 155,000 members of The Junior League that the…
Does what we do really make a difference?
That’s a question many people who volunteer their time and talent have asked, at one time for another. In answering that question, at least at The Junior League, you need…