Thank you to everyone who participated in this year’s parade! Everyone did an amazing job and we truly enjoyed the evening.

1st ELBY BRASS Band
2nd Mountain View Marching Band Band

1st Brandonbilt Foundations Commercial Float (Business)
2nd Hartwood Presbyterian Church Commercial Float (Business)

1st Spotlight Dance LLC Dance/Gymnastics
2nd Tiger Martial Arts Academy Dance/Gymnastics

1st United Horsemen’s Association Equestrian
2nd Marriage, Carriage and More, LLC. Equestrian

1st Dixie Royals Majorette (Sr)
2nd The Tri-County Star Lights Baton Group Majorette (Sr)

1st Dixie Royals Majorette (Jr Ages 3-12 years)
2nd Dynamic All-Stars Majorette (Jr Ages 3-12 years)

1st Moncure Elementary Blue Beat Percussion Group Novelty
2nd The Virginia Renaissance Faire Novelty

For your scaring pleasure we have revamped our Annual Haunted House into a nightmarish walk through Downtown Fredericksburg.  A “Nightmare on Caroline Street” will bring your worst nightmares to life on Saturday, October 15th and will continue to haunt your dreams every Saturday, through Halloween weekend.

Click here to find us out on Facebook for sneak peaks and up to date information.

Stay tuned for more information as we finalize details. Scare ya later!!

This year’s Fredericksburg Jaycees Christmas Parade will be held on Saturday, December 3, 2011. This year’s theme is A Hollywood Christmas. Packets have been emailed out, and entries are due back to us by November 1st. Please click on the Fredericksburg Jaycees Christmas Parade page on this website for complete information and a link to this year’s entry form.
See you in December!

Join us for ourAnnual Easter Egg Hunt being held on Saturday, April 16th, at Kenmore Park in Downtown Fredericksburg. Each year we kick off the Easter season with an egg hunt, which is free for all who attend. Little ones come out, dressed in their spring outfits, and enjoy finding eggs and getting a picture with the Easter Bunny.

Interested in volunteering for this fun and rewarding event? Great!! We will need volunteers to arrive around 11:00 am to help put out the eggs for the kids to find. The hunt will begin at 12:30 and we should be wrapped up by 1:30. Please email Community Development Vice President Jen Adkins to sign up to volunteer.

The Fredericskburg area is surrounded by history, and the Fredericksburg Jaycees have a great way for YOU to come out and discover all the fascinating historical events that have happened in, and around, our area over the years.

On March 26th, we will have our very first Historical Scavenger Hunt!! Teams will travel through the City of Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania Counties completing pre-assigned tasks, having fun and discovering all the history that surronds us.

All teams will receive a t-shirt and the winners are awarded bragging rights…well,at least until the next Scavenger Hunt! Teams will convene, and reconvene at The Greene Turtle, located at the back of the Spotsylvania Towne Centre. The hunt begins at 11 am, so show up early to get your team signed up! New to the area and don’t know anybody, but still want to participate? NO PROBLEM, we will be pairing up teams at The Greene Turtle. And did I mention…Registering is FREE!!

This is a family friendly event, so grab the kids, some friends or even a stranger or two and let’s discover history!

Please click here to sign up for this great event.

Our first monthly membership meeting is tomorrow at The Green Turtle. Happy hour begins at 6:30, with the meeting beginning promptly at 7:00. The Green Turtle is located on the back end of Spotsylvania Town Center (for directions and more information please go to www.greenturtle.com).

We are excited to share our plans for 2011. Our new home at the Green Turtle is a great place to present our 2011 budget and calendar for membership approval. We have lots of exciting projects, events and programs for next year. I hope everyone gets to share in our ‘Journey To Greatness’.

And just to kick things off, I would like to announce our Membership Drive Incentive for this year: The first 20 new members who join in 2011 get their $65 initiation fees WAIVED!

That’s right ladies and gentlemen, if you want to save yourself $65, meet us at the Green Turtle on Tuesday, Jan 11 @ 6:30 and be one of the first 20 to join the greatest organization in the area!

Jason Adkins
President
Fredericksburg Jaycees

P.S. Regardless of the weather, we will be holding tomorrow night’s Membership Meeting.

Did you know that the Fredericksburg Area Food Bank can feed a family of 4 for 7 days with grant money raised by 2 hours of a volunteers time?? That’s a pretty amazing program and the Fredericksburg Jaycees would like to help volunteer OUR time so that others less fortunate then us can eat.

This month’s volunteer opportunity comes from the Fredericksburg Area Food Bank’s Food for Life program. The Food For Life program delivers boxed lunches to the elderly in our area. This Saturday, January 8th we will be headed to the Food Bank, to sort donations, organize lunch materials and pack lunches, from 9 – 12.

The Food Bank relies on individuals, such as YOU for their manpower and support. Please come out and support this worthy program on Saturday, January 8th from 9 -12.

Family and friends are welcome (Don’t forget 1 person can feed a family of FOUR for just TWO hours of their time), however the Food Bank does not allow children under the age of 10 to volunteer, due to liability issues.

Please email Jen Adkins to volunteer to make a difference in someone else’s life. We need to RSVP to the Food Bank so please email me ASAP with the time’s YOU are available to make a difference (2 hours of YOUR time not only supports our areas elderly, but your hours help others less fortunate eat for a week!).

The Community Development portfolio will be bringing you a monthly Volunteer Opportunity each month (duh!). This is your chance to get out in the community and make someone else’s life better because YOU volunteer 3 hours a month of YOUR time. We will be sending you emails at the end of each month letting you know how you can make a difference in the following month, so be sure to keep your eyes open.

This month I leave you with the following nuggets of wisdom: “Snowflakes melt alone – but together they can be traffic stoppers!” – Anonymous

“The moral test of a society is how that society treats those who are in the dawn of life. the children; those who are in the twilight of life. the elderly; and those who are in the shadow of life. the sick, the needy and the handicapped.” – Hubert Humprey

Jen Adkins
Fredericksburg Jaycees
“We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give” – Winston Churchill

Click for more information on the Fredericksburg Area Food Bank?