Alliance News
Ilene Bosscher, MA, MDiv, LMFT, LPCC
GLMSA President
[email protected]
T
he Alliance will ring in the New Year
on January 31, 2014 - the Chinese
New Year of 4712, the year of the
Horse that is! As Chinese legend explains,
Buddha asked all the animals to meet him on
New Year’s Day and named a year after each
of the twelve animals that came. The animals
in the Chinese calendar are the dog, pig/boar,
rat, ox, tiger, rabbit, dragon, snake, horse,
sheep, monkey, and rooster. Also according
to legend, people born in each animal’s year
have some of that animal’s personality traits.
To celebrate this holiday we will gather at
August Moon: Chinese Bistro (2269 Lexington Road) at 6:30 p.m. for cocktails and be
treated to a four course dinner beginning at
7 p.m. Please mark your calendars and plan
on joining us for an exciting evening. For
more information or to RSVP for this event,
please send an email to [email protected]
The next day we will have our January
Outreach, Shop and Share, which will take
place on February 1, 2014. This event is held
on ‘Superbowl Saturday’ every year to benefit
the domestic violence centers across our
state. This will be the second year we have
participated in this event. We are planning
on going to the Kroger that we are assigned
and helping collect the can goods from the
Shop and Share Wish List and cash donations. Please reserve some time to volunteer
or shop for this outreach or donate some
cash to this worthy cause. To sign up to volunteer or pledge a donation for this outreach,
email the Alliance at [email protected]
December was quite busy for the Alliance
as we traveled to Lexington on December 3rd
to attend their Annual Christmas Bazaar.
We had a lovely lunch and enjoyed meeting others from the Lexington Alliance. The
proceeds of their event will go for health
grants for students who are seeking a career
in a health care field.
The December outreach was held for the
benefit of the Center for Women and Families. We collected cash donations and gifts
cards for the Center’s Christmas event totaling over $700.00. I had the pleasure of meeting The Center’s President and CEO Marta
GLMS Alliance
Upcoming Events
January 23 – Book Club
January 31 –Chinese New Year
February 1 - Outreach, Shop & Share
Miranda who is
very inspiring, very
talented, and has the
background experience that makes her
such a wonderful asset to lead the Center.
I also met Jeanine Triplett, Vice President
for Development & Communications, there
who explained that we could also benefit the
Center by designating our Goodwill donations with CWF. Triplett explained that The
Center would receive credit from Goodwill
in the form of Goodwill Vouchers. The Center can then in turn give these Goodwill
Vouchers to their clients to shop at Goodwill
Stores. This is a great way we can benefit others with our year end donations to Goodwill!
The best is yet to be! Looking ahead, the
rest of our year is full of events you won’t
want to miss! From the Technology Coffee
and the Gilda’s Club Outreach in February,
our Annual Opening Night at the Track in
April to benefit our own Health Grant Fund,
the Annual Doctor’s Day in March where we
honor all the doctors of Jefferson County
and one in particular, Our Annual Meeting
in May, to the events of the AMAA Southern Regional Meeting at the Brown Hotel in
March - we have lots to look forward do. It
is not too early to RSVP for these events as
well at [email protected].
Clubs: The January meeting of the Book
Club will take place on Thursday, January
23 at 10:30 a.m. at Heine Brothers on 119
Chenoweth Lane. The book to be discussed
will be Lean In by Sheryl Sandberg. Contact Carol Lambert for more information
at [email protected]. For information on the
Bridge Club please contact Arlene Redinger
at (502) 775-9109 and for Health and Wellness Club information please contact Dominique Hendren at (502) 592-6067. LM
GLMSA President Ilene Bosscher, KMAA President Rhonda Rhodes, and Lexington Medical Alliance President
Jessica Ragland at the Annual Christmas Bazaar
(left to right) Millicent Evans, Jenny Jacob, Ilene
Bosscher, Dominique Hendren, Rhonda Rhodes, Barbara Cox, Karin Sonnier, Frazia Kamber, and Chitra
Kayerker at the Annual Christmas Bazaar
Note: Contact Ilene Bosscher at alliance@
glms.org or (502) 552-7319. To contact the
Men in the Alliance Committee, email
[email protected].
Ilene Bosscher presenting Marta Miranda,
President and CEO of the Center for Women
and Famil Y\