ShawsVegas Casino Night 2013

ShawsVegas Casino Night
April 20, 6-10 pm
The Meadowbrook Center

DEAL YOURSELF IN!  Tickets are $50 in advance or $60 after April 15.   There’ll be:

MORE ACTION! Win $10,000 in the Putting Contest ( split 50/50 between the winner and Mountain Valley Charitable Foundation

MORE AUCTION PRIZES! Win a week in fabulous Las Vegas or a barbecue for 25

MORE BLING! Win .5-carat diamond in champagne glass from Kent  Jewelers in Blacksburg

PLUS! Best Casino Costume Contest, Blackjack, Poker, Craps, Roulette, and Horse-Racing

Dinner catered by the Meadowbrook Café.  Wine from David and Allison Dunkenberger’s Firefly Hill Vineyard

Tickets can also be purchased at the Waldron Family YMCA, 540.268.1623 or by emailing cmhawes@verizon.net.

Thanks to all of our sponsors!

Casino Night Blue Chip Sponsors–$1,000 (to date)

Partners in Financial Planning, LLC (James E. Pearman, Jr.)
Karen Waldron & Shawn Ricci
Dr. and Mrs. George R. Smith, Jr.
Shawsville Pharmacy (Scott Fauber)
Kent Jewelers

Casino Night Red Chip Sponsors–$250 (to date)

Adams Construction
Dell and Dawn Armour
Alec and Sarah Bradford–Leaping Waters Farm
Carilion Clinic–Shawsville
Marty and Sue Childress–Childress Insurance
Cook Siding and Window Company
Mike Cronin
Dominion Hair Systems
Mark and Ditto Driscoll–Hanging Rock Orange Market
Tom and Rebecca Dunkenberger
The Dunkenberger-Waskey Group at Morgan Stanley Smith Barney
Ray Epperly
Harvey and Marie Goodwin
Scott and Barbara Jean Hagood
Hall’s Construction
Dale Mull
New River Bank–Tom Loflin
Lorene Pearman
Progress Street Builders
Ellen and David Ryan
Sisson & Ryan Quarries, LLC
George and Melinda Smith
Tina Smith
Clarence and Ora Taylor
Macon and Candace Sammons
Danny and Judy Sisson
Doug and Angie Sisson
Phillip and Georgette Wickham
Spencer and Dayle Winfrey

The Mountain Valley Charitable Foundation’s mission is to enhance the quality of life in eastern Montgomery County.  It is a non-profit 501(c)(3) organization; all contributions are deductible for federal income tax purposes.

Board of Directors, Mountain Valley Charitable Foundation

Thomas M. Dunkenberger, Sr., President

(540) 268-2467

tdunksr@verizon.net

 

James E. Pearman, Jr., Vice President

(540) 380-2559

james@partnersinfinancialplanning.com

 

George R. Smith, III, Secretary

(540) 268-2702

mrbanjo111@aol.com

 

Ellen S. Ryan, Treasurer

(540) 268 2369

elryan@verizon.net

 

Dale R. Mull

(540) 268-2756

dalemull@comcast.net

 

Dorothy S. King

(540) 268-2261

dotking30@yahoo.com

 

Melissa M. Pilkington

(540) 268-1495

thepilkingtons@aol.com

 

Lauren M. Tate

(540) 268-1338

bltate4@gmail.com

 

Spencer S. Winfrey, Jr.

(540) 268-5290

cabindwler@aol.com

Mountain Valley wins $75,000 grant from AEP Foundation​

American Electric Power Foundation has awarded a $75,000 grant toward Mountain Valley Charitable Foundation’s campaign to transform the old Elliston Fire Station into a food pantry to serve eastern Montgomery County, Virginia.

“We are honored and humbled by this award,” says Michael Hemphill, executive director of Mountain Valley Charitable Foundation (MVCF). “While we of course believe in the value of this project, it is very gratifying that a foundation of AEP’s prestige has validated our vision.”

With the AEP Foundation grant, MVCF has raised $214,000 to date toward the $230,000 renovation.

Click here to download a pledge and gift form.

MVCF is revitalizing the old Elliston Fire Station, a culturally historic structure originally built in the 1950s by the founding members of the community’s volunteer fire department.

The renovation will feature a thrift shop and provide the area’s food pantry – which feeds more than 150 low-income families each month – a permanent home. The food pantry’s current location, the old Shawsville Middle School, is scheduled to be demolished in 2013.

AEP Foundation focuses on improving lives through education; protecting the environment; providing basic human services in the areas of hunger, housing, health and safety; and enriching the quality of life in communities it serves through art, music and cultural heritage.

Earlier this month, MVCF won a $3,000 grant from actor Kevin Bacon after collecting the second most number of donors in the nationwide “6 Days of Good for Hunger” challenge sponsored by Bacon’s SixDegrees.org. More than 100 donors from throughout the country contributed $5,330 to MVCF’s cause.

The renovation is scheduled to be completed in December. Funds are needed to repay the loan we’ve taken out to ensure the renovation is completed before the food pantry’s current location is torn down.

Click here to see a video of construction progress.

Thanks to all for supporting The Meadowbrook Open!

Thanks to our sponsors, players and volunteers for a great 9th annual Meadowbrook Open!

Click here to see photos from the day.

Congratulations to Sundown Electric (pictured right), winners of this year’s tournament.

And congratulations to (from left to right) Al Childress, Tyler Hawes, Dave Showalter and Jordan Stewart for winning the coveted “Bringing up the Rear” last-place trophy.

Mountain Valley Charitable Foundation raised more than $7,500 at this year’s tournament.

Thanks to Madison and Charlotte Marye for hosting the tournament; David Dunkenberger of Firefly Hill Vineyards for the wine and chicken; Stacy Sisson, Lauren Tate, Julia Milton, Ellen Ryan, Charlotte Sink and France Wickham for the food; Staci Boone for coordinating the cornhole tournament; and Marshall Church and Robert Ryan for helping create the golf course.

Thanks to the following businesses for donating goods for the event:

• Shelor Motor Mile (dinner tents)
• New River Engraving (trophies)
• Sign Systems (signs)
• Montgomery Sanitation (port-o-johns)

And thanks to our sponsors!

Tournament ($1,000)

• Partners in Financial Planning (James E. Pearman, Jr., and Pamela Poldiak)
• Dr. and Mrs. George R. Smith, Jr.

Hole ($250)

• Mike Cronin, in memory of Karen Cronin
• Cece Bell and Tom Angleberger
• Carilion Clinic-Shawsville (Drs. Julia Hemphill and Mary Leatherland)
• Orange Market Hanging Rock
• Tom and Rebecca Dunkenberger
• George and Melinda Smith
• YMCA at Virginia Tech
• Fran Richardson
• Clarence and Ora Taylor
• Danny and Judy Sisson
• BT Home Improvements (Ben and Lauren Tate)
• Dunkenberger-Waskey Group at Morgan Stanley Wealth Management
• Hall’s Construction Corporation
• Sisson & Ryan Quarries, LLC – Salem Stone
• Shawsville Ruritan Club
• Dell and Dawn Armour in memory of Don Reynolds
• Childress Insurance Agency

One-of-a-kind Meadowbrook Open is Oct. 21

Meadowbrook Open

Madison Marye Farm

Sunday, Oct. 21, 1 p.m.

It’s the most unique golf of your life: an 18-hole par-three course created on former state Sen. Madison Marye’s Shawsville farm.

Fun for all ages and abilities, the Meadowbrook Open features haybales, tractors and troughs for hazards, and 3-foot-wide holes for easy holes-in-one.

Click here to register.

$60 per player

$240 per team

Includes T-shirt and dinner at Marye Farm of delicious BBQ, locally crafted wine by Firefly Hill Vineyard, and live music.

NEW THIS YEAR: CORNHOLE TOURNAMENT! 

While golfers play, friends and family can take part in a cornhole tournament (2 people to a team). Entry fee for one cornhole player is included with each golfer’s registration. Otherwise, it’s just $25 per team, which includes dinner.

The day’s fun includes contests for Best Golfing Costume and most holes-in-one, and our “Bringing Up The Rear” last-place trophy adorned with a cow’s backside.

Hole sponsorships are $250 (includes entry fee for two players). Tournament sponsorship is $1,000 (includes entry fee for 8 players). To be listed on tournament t-shirt, please notify us by Oct. 10.

Thanks to all those who are already sponsors:

Tournament ($1,000)

• Partners in Financial Planning (James E. Pearman, Jr., and Pamela Poldiak)
• Dr. and Mrs. George R. Smith, Jr.

Hole ($250)

• Mike Cronin, in memory of Karen Cronin
• Cece Bell and Tom Angleberger
• Carilion Clinic-Shawsville (Drs. Julia Hemphill and Mary Leatherland)
• Orange Market Hanging Rock
• Tom and Rebecca Dunkenberger
• George and Melinda Smith
• YMCA at Virginia Tech
• Fran Richardson
• Clarence and Ora Taylor
• Danny and Judy Sisson
• BT Home Improvements (Ben and Lauren Tate)
• Morgan Stanley Wealth Management (Tom Dunkenberger, Jr.)
• Hall’s Construction, Corporation

Now in its ninth year, The Meadowbrook Open raises money to support Mountain Valley Charitable Foundation‘s mission to enhance The Meadowbrook Center and eastern Montgomery County.

For more information, contact Mountain Valley Charitable Foundation executive director Michael Hemphill, 540.556.2879, or michael@eastmontva.com.

JOIN US: Kevin Bacon & old Elliston Fire Station

We have just 2 days left to be 1 degree from Kevin Bacon.

Help fight hunger by donating to our 6 Days of Good page by clicking here.

If our campaign to transform the old Elliston Fire Station into our community food pantry has the most donors — whether they give $5 or $500 — we’ll receive a $6,000 challenge grant from Kevin Bacon.

Second place gets $3,000. Third place gets $1,000.

Right now, we’re in 3rd place, just 10 donors behind 2nd. See for yourself at http://www.sixdegrees.org/topfundraising

• If you haven’t made a gift, please do so now!
• If you’ve already made a gift … thank you!
• If you’ve already made a gift … please encourage a friend or spouse to do the same.
• If you’ve already made a gift … please consider another.

Remember, the campaign with the most number of donors wins!

This challenge ends Saturday, September 29, at midnight … so please donate today.

This “6 Days of Good for Hunger” challenge is hosted by SixDegrees.org – a charitable initiative of Kevin Bacon with Network for Good.

On behalf of Mountain Valley Charitable Foundation, thank you for your support!

 

Meadowbrook Open is Oct. 21

We’re keeping all the fun at the Madison Marye Farm for our 9th annual Meadowbrook Open.

Enjoy the most unique golfing experience of your life: an 18-hole par-three course created on Madison Marye’s gorgeous Shawsville farm. We fashion the holes three feet wide so everyone has a chance at a hole-in-one.

After your round, step under the tent to enjoy a delicious BBQ dinner, locally crafted wine by Firefly Hill Vineyard, and live music.

Registration fee is $60/person or $240/foursome by Oct. 15. 

Includes dinner, tournament T-shirt.

Late registration: add $5/person.

CLICK HERE TO REGISTER!

Please consider being a sponsor! Contact us to learn more at michael@eastmontva.com.

Meadowbrook Open Tournament Sponsor ($1,000)

• Name and logo featured on all promotional literature.
• Entry fee for two teams (8 golfers) to play in tournament.

Meadowbrook Open Hole Sponsor ($250)

• ALL NEW: Hole sponsor signage and entry fee for 2 golfers to play.
• Plus two additional tickets to the post-tournament dinner.

Or consider becoming a Mountain Valley Gold Sponsor or Mountain Valley Silver Sponsor by supporting both the Meadowbrook Open and 2013 ShawsVegas Casino Night.

Enjoy a 10 percent sponsorship discount plus other benefits!

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ShawsVegas Casino Night ~ April 20, 2013 (tentative)

Deal yourself in at ShawsVegas!

Double down on your favorite casino games (blackjack, poker, craps and roulette). Make a bet at our live horse-racing (see it to believe it) and $10,000 putting contest.

And enjoy our Best Casino Costume contest, auction of fabulous prizes, and of course Elvis’ Hunka Burnin’ Love Wedding Chapel.

$60/person entry fee includes a savory dinner, complimentary drinks, $10,000 in starter chips, and tickets for raffle prizes.

Mountain Valley Gold Sponsor – $1,800 ($200 savings)

• Name and logo featured at both Meadowbrook Open and ShawsVegas.
• Entry fee for two teams (8 golfers) to play Meadowbrook Open.
• Eight player tickets to ShawsVegas Casino Night.
• Invitation to year-end Volunteer & Donor Appreciation Dinner.

 Mountain Valley Silver Sponsor – $450 ($50 savings)

•  Hole sponsor signage at Meadowbrook Open.
• Entry fee for two golfers to play Meadowbrook Open.
• Game table sponsor signage at ShawsVegas.
• Two player tickets to ShawsVegas.
• Invitation to year-end Volunteer & Donor Appreciation Dinner.