The People of Praise annual St. Patrick’s Practice Party is set for this coming Sunday, March 14, 2010. Be sure to wear something green!

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What’s the old saying about March coming in like a lion? The cold weather and strong winds that came with the start of March should be subsiding. That’s good news as we have plenty of things up coming in the branch!

• Stahl’s are hosting their annual pot-luck lunch in Bradenton onSaturday March 6. Right now it appears that 10 people from the Tampa branch will be there enjoying the food and festivities. If you want to come, but need a ride down, let us know!
• Branch meeting on Sunday March 7 is at the Folvarciks at 2:30pm
• Women Leaders Conference is March 10-14 in South Bend
• St Patrick’s Practice Party is on March 14 at Brophy’s from 5pm on.

God bless!

During the past few weeks, we have been discussing at our branch meetings the 2010 Auction fundraiser, which is set for Saturday May 1st, 2010.

At today’s meeting, we distributed Volunteer forms and ”Save the Date” postcards for POP members to use. We also handed out copies of the Donation Forms and Cover Letter to be completed by businesses and individuals who are donating items to this year’s auction.

We announced that last year’s 2009 Auction not only set a new attendance record, but both our gross and net profits from last year’s auction surpassed our prior two years. And this all occurred during last year’s economic downturn!

Finally, we have completely revamped our Auction for Action website (www.tampa-action.org) and all of the documents we handed out today are available for downloading and printing.

As we mentioned at last week’s branch meeting, the 5th annual Auction for Action is scheduled for Saturday May 1st.

To get things kicked off, check out our updated web site for the auction at www.tampa-action.org!  We have plenty of things to add to the web site in the next couple of weeks.  One recent update: we do have the Valerie Gillespie jazz group scheduled to perform once again at our auction. So, start spreading the word and it’s not too soon to start asking for donation items!

Can it really be that we only have a few more days left to February? Just a few reminders … branch meeting this Sunday (Feb 28) is at CTK.

Then looking ahead to the month of March, the branch meeting on March 7 will be at the Folvarcik’s house. The women leaders will be attending the Conference for Women Leaders in South Bend from Mar 10-14. And then we the annual St Patrick’s party coming up on March 14th!

And that’s only for the first half of March!