Sonny Geraci Concert at Jones Crossing

A Message from Jones Crossing Banquet Center ~

Please attend our first ever entertainment event on Saturday, May 23, 2009. 

The Headliner is Sonny Geraci, “The Voice” of “The Outsiders/Climax” with hits, “Time Won’t Let Me” and “Precious and Few”, with special guests Jackson Stone Blues Band and Heather Dawson. The tickets are $50 for Prime Rib and Carved Steampship Pork Roast with greenbeans, baby carrots and buttered new potatoes with cheesecake selections and chocolate covered strawberries. Of course, the bar will be open to satisfy  the needs of all. Call 727-7165 to reserve your seat or table today!!

Click here for tickets and to hear Sonny Geraci!

20th Annual Mooresville Victorian Christmas

PRESS RELEASE – NOVEMBER 13, 2008

COMMUNITY CALENDAR INFO

20th Annual Victorian Christmas Celebration
Saturday, December 6th, 2008
10:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.

Live holiday music, history displays, tinsmithing, quilting, a petting zoo and gingerbread house display are just a few of the things you will see when you visit Mooresville, Indiana on Saturday, December 6th for the 20th Annual Victorian Christmas Celebration.  Meet magician extraordinaire, Professor Rodney and visit with Ebeneezer Scrooge at the Government Center where you can also attend the Lion’s Club Pancake Breakfast beginning at 8:30 a.m. and see a performance of “Rat-punzel” presented by Klingel-Engel Puppets.  Take a free carriage ride in downtown Mooresville or hop on the free trolley to visit other Victorian Christmas activities throughout town.  Delight in the sounds of fiddlers and carolers and perhaps catch a glimpse of Father Christmas.  This event is brought to life by the Mooresville Revitalization Group.  Free Admission.  For more information contact Lori Cole at 317-831-7817 or Rosemary Rogers at 317-437-0102 or visit www.mooresvillerevitalization.com.

MOORESVILLE REVITALIZATION GROUP, INC.
P O BOX 668     MOORESVILLE  IN  46158

Mooresville Kiwanis Golf Outing

The annual Kiwanis Golf Outing is scheduled for Wednesday June 18 at Eagle Pines Golf Club in Mooresville. If you are interested in being a hole sponsor, please contact John Ehrhart: jehrhart@lincolnbank.biz.

Mooresville Kiwanis Meeting Minutes-May 27, 2008

Written by Kari Mann:

I would like to thank those in attendance at today’s Kiwanis meeting. We were excited to have two gentlemen from the new Walmart in Heartland Crossing to update us on their future plans and their ability to help our community fundraising efforts.

We were missing quite a few people from our roster today. As a club, we have been blessed to have wonderful speakers to educate us on our community and new programs in and around our area. I would love to be able to show our presenters that Kiwanis is the strongest club in the area, but we can’t do it without your support. The Mooresville Kiwanis Club is 52 members strong and will be celebrating it’s 34th year as a club in June. Please help us offer our speakers the opportunity to present to a wide group of people by making it your goal to attend at least 3 meetings a month. If you have not been in a while and have questions, concerns or issues, please feel free to email me so that we can be certain that the Mooresville Kiwanis Club is helping to deliver the opportunities that brought you to the club originally.

Over the next several months we have many opportunities. I am pleased to announce that I will be serving as Lt. Governor for Circle City Division. I would love to be able to promote my home club as one of the best in the area, if not the state. We definitely have the personality and talent to be an even greater provider to our area. In this transition, we are looking for someone who would like to step up and lead the club as President. In addition, we are also looking for a Vice-President/President Elect for 2009-2010. I would be happy to discuss more information about either of these roles with you. I would like to thank BJ Pendleton for agreeing to serve as Secretary and Jeff Pipkin for continuing his role as Treasurer during the 2008-2009 year.

Our service clubs have really taken off over the last year. Donna Stutler has really worked hard to keep our Aktion Club involved in activities. Dennis Ward and Lindy Scott have worked diligently to rejuvenate the Key Club at the High School level. Our newest addition to the Kiwanis family is the North Madison K-Kids club, this club has worked hard to fundraise and complete various projects in our community. For more information on this club, please contact Meredith Bowling or Tiffani Bailey. Bri Spaulding, the 2007-2008 President is now looking ahead to Junior High and beginning a Builders Club at that level. Kelly Overton has volunteered to assist Bri with this project.

June 3rd will be our board meeting at 11:15, then our meeting among us will begin immediately following. We are incredibly blessed to have Jared Overton visiting that day. Please come out and show your support for one of our local servicemen home from Iraq.

On June 6th and 7th, the Kiwanis Club will host a camp site at the Morgan County Relay for Life. This is a great opportunity to get out and show your support while raising money for a very good cause. All of our lives have been touched by cancer in one way or another- this is a great way to honor those whose lives have been lost, those who are currently fighting the battle and those who have conquered cancer. It’s also a fun way to support your fellow Kiwanians as they travel around the track. This year’s theme is “FORREST GUMP”. Please contact Melissa Taylor if you are interested in giving some time for this event, it can be as little as an hour or you can come spend the night.

June 18th is the 21st annual Curry Overton Golf Classic. This is a great tradition that was started to fund the Mooresville Kiwanis Scholarship Fund. Each year a scholarship is given out to a Mooresville High School student to help with their college expenses. It takes a lot of people to make this outing a success and we need your help. This outing is by far the best deal around. Please contact Donna Stutler or John Ehrhart if you are interested in volunteering your time on the day of the event, assisting with the securing of sponsors or golfers or donating a door prize.

July 10th the Mooresville Kiwanis Club will be traveling to Camp Atterbury for a full day tour. This is an opportunity to understand and support those who defend our freedoms. For more information on this event, please contact Melissa Taylor.

In August, Kiwanis members and their immediate families have been invited to tour LUCAS OIL STADIUM. This is a once in a lifetime opportunity to explore behind the scenes the home of the 2012 SuperBowl.

October 9th, the club will host it’s 4th Annual Taste of Mooresville. This has been an excellent fundraiser for us. However it takes A LOT of support from our membership. Last year over 20 restaurants participated, over 120 items were auctioned off and more than 30 businesses sponsored this event. We really need your help to pull this off. Please contact me for more information on how to get involved in this event.

Over the next several months, we will also be looking at community service projects to get involved with. Kiwanis is a strong proponent of “Prevent Child Abuse” and “Read Across America”. These are only a couple of possibilities and we are certainly looking for ideas or suggestions on how our club can better serve the needs of our area.

I’m looking forward to a great year of growth, not necessarily in membership, but in attendance and volunteerism. The Mooresville Kiwanis Club has an amazing history and it takes past members, current members and future members to continue the tradition of success. Please mark your calendars for Tuesdays at 12:00 at Ponderosa. I hope to see you there!

Sign Up Now for the Mooresville Community Day!

It’s coming

When: Saturday, July 12, 2008 1:00-5:00 p.m.(youth participating in the Lemonade Stand Competition arrive at 12 Noon)
Where: Uptown Mooresville-Citizen’s Bank Main Office Lot

Who is invited: Everyone!

Please join us!
School aged children: Get your friends and family together, form a team of 5 or 6 people with a maximum age of 18 years old to compete in our Lemonade Stand Competition! Build your own stand before the day of the event and bring it in or use the materials that we will have present to build your own before the competition starts. You will be given one hour to build the stand as well as make your lemonade if you opt to do so on the day of the event.

Beginning at 1:00 p.m.: Lemonade Stand competitors will be “open for business”. Lemonade “business owners” will sell lemonade to customers that are attending the Community Day. Prizes will be given based on the levels of creativity expressed, amount of profits, as well as team work displayed.

Profits raised will be donated to the Boys & Girls Clubs of Morgan County. The Lemonade Stand Competition is designed to teach the youth about business ownership and entrepreneurship while raising community awareness.

Local non-profits are welcome to set up a table at the event at no cost! Come out and recruit new volunteers and members!

Local businesses are welcome as well! There is a $25 fee for for-profit businesses.

Food vendors are encouraged to set up booths to provide refreshments and gain exposure. There is no fee for food vendors to attend.

For more information, please check out our website: www.morgancountycommunity.com.

Lemonade Stand teams and all others wanting to participate in any way, please submit an email to morgancountycommunity@gmail.com or click the RSVP link on the website no later than June 20, 2008.

Thank you for your support!

Martinsville Community Day-May 10, 2008

It was Saturday, May 10, 2008. Over a dozen local organizations, and several children and parents gathered around the courthouse square in Martinsville, Indiana. Nearly $3,000 worth of gifts and prizes were donated to the event for the participants. All proceeds from the Martinsville Community Day went to the Boys & Girls Clubs of Morgan County. There were also 11 successful units of blood donated in the Indiana Blood Center’s Bloodmobile!

Join us at the Mooresville Community Day on July 12, 2008 in Uptown Mooresville, Indiana! For additional information, please visit the website. If you are a school aged person under the age of 18 years, a food vendor, performer, non-profit organization, or a local business and would like to participate, please contact us at morgancountycommunity@gmail.com. It is free for youth, food vendors, performers, and non-profits, and $25 for the for-profit organizations to take part. Volunteers and donations are needed to make these efforts a huge success! All profits will go to the Boys & Girls Clubs of Morgan County.

Hello Morgan County!

Hi! I am Nicki Laycoax. I have been a Morgan County resident since I was 10 years old; since 1988. My parents ran the Hall Store & Deli from 1988 until the doors closed in 1996 due to lack of business. I think that my passion for business and this great county that I live in, comes from my responsibilities as a child in the old store… What great lessons I learned during those 8 years. It helped me develop my awareness of the importance of excellent customer service as well as the trials and tribulations of being a business owner.

Since my days in Hall, I’ve gotten to experience life outside Morgan County. I have worked in Indianapolis for Community Health Network and the Department of Workforce Developement for the State of Indiana. I’ve met many, many great people along my path. One of which is my partner, George Roots. We are in business together providing web services doing business as our company, Squish Designs.

Being that my main role in Squish is Marketing, I am always looking for new and effective ways to network. Along my path in my quest for such, I discovered Smaller Indiana. This is an online community that has been growing at a very exponential rate. In March the 1,000th member was celebrated, and just two months later, May 2008 we have over 2,000 members! The reason that I am writing about Smaller Indiana, is that this was the start of the Morgan County Community Days.

I met Jon Speer of Creo Quality through Smaller Indiana. Jon’s company, Creo Quality, my company, Squish Designs, and Jill Hardings company, Boundless Designs, are the founders of these events that are being organized to revitalize Morgan County. We have created a website for everyone to view and get more information: morgancountycommunity.com. The proceeds from these events are being donated to the Boys & Girls Clubs of Morgan County.

This blog will not only be updated with information on the Community Days and all that they are doing for our youth and our community, but also, notable accomplishments and events that are taking place in Morgan County!

If there is something that you’d like to have included in this blog, feel free to contact me! nlaycoax@squishdesigns.com