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Throughout the year the Oshkosh Jaycees have organized community events like the Easter Egg Hunt & Children’s Day Parade, and have held fund raising projects like Brews ‘n Blues and the upcoming Oshquerade. It is now the time of year when we begin the process of distributing the funds we have raised back to the Oshkosh Area Community. Please take a moment to review the following document for information and for an application. Completed request for proposal applications must be postmarked by October 1, 2010 in order to be considered. If you have additional questions, please contact Jason Rosenau, Management VP at jason.rosenau@oshkoshjaycees.org or call (920) 475-1298.

Oshkosh Jaycees 2010 RFP Application

Here is the current list of breweries that have committed to this year’s Brews ‘n Blues. It’s coming up this weekend – see you there!

Abita
Capital
Central Waters
Corsendonk
Flying Dog
Founders
Grand Teton
Hook & Ladder
Lagunitas
Leinenkugels
Lost Coast
Magic Hat
Moylans
Old Bavarian
Oskar Blue
Oso
Pangaea
Potosi
Pyramid
Reaper Ales
Sam Adams
Sand Creek
Shiner
Sonoran
Southern Tier
Stevens Point
Strangford
Tyranena
Upland

For full information, please see the 2010 Children’s Day Parade Flyer.

You can now order your Brews n’ Blues ticket right here, or pick them up at any of these ticket outlets:

Oshkosh – O’marro’s Public House, Barley & Hops, Festival Foods
Menasha – Redliner Bar
Appleton – Festival Foods, Revolution
Fond du Lac – Festival Foods

Are you interested in becoming more involved in the community? Do you enjoy putting a smile on a child’s face, or raising money for area charities? Please consider coming to our next general meeting, Tuesday, June 15 at South Park in Oshkosh. If you don’t know any of us, just find a friendly face and introduce yourself.

We’ll be at the small shelter at South Park, just off of Georgia Street. Grilling and happy hour start at 6:00 PM, and the meeting starts at 7:00.

Come take part in one of the area’s most unique microbrew events. The Oshkosh Jaycees present the 15th Annual Brews n’ Blues Charity Microbrew and Music Festival to be held Saturday, July 17, 2010 from 3:00 PM – 7:00 PM at the Leach Amphitheater in downtown Oshkosh.

Join us for the afternoon and listen to great live music and sample from over 100 brews made by more than 30 different breweries.

This year’s bands are:

Greg Waters and The Broad Street Boogie, http://www.gregwatersmusic.com/
Donnie Pick and The Unit, http://www.donniepick.com/

View full event flyer here.

Proceeds from this event go to support the Christine Ann Center for Domestic Abuse and other Oshkosh area charities.

Tickets will be going on sale early this month and are available at:
Oshkosh – O’marro’s Public House, Barley & Hops, Festival Foods
Menasha – Redliner Bar
Appleton – Festival Foods, Revolution
Fond du Lac – Festival Foods

Ticket prices: $30 in advance; $40 at the door

The first 700 people through the gate will receive a 2010 Brews ‘n Blues collectible sampling glass

Must be 21 years of age or older to attend.

THANK YOU to sponsors -
Fox Valley Savings Bank
Barley & Hops Pub
O’marro’s
Choice Bank
Festival Foods
Werner Electric
Dublin’s Irish Pub
Oblio’s
Cumulus Broadcasting
Oshkosh Community Media
Absolute Transformations Salon
Jabroni

As the nice weather begins, we start to host our monthly meetings outdoors. Our May general membership meeting will be held on Tuesday, May 18th, at South Park. If you’re interested in learning more about the Oshkosh Jaycees and what we do, please join us for food and games beginning at 6:00, and our regular monthly beginning starting at 7:00. If you are new to the Oshkosh Jaycees and what we do, you do not need to RSVP – just show up, find a friendly face, and introduce yourself. We’d be happy to meet you!

Look for us at the small shelter off of Georgia Street.

Every February, the bravest (or craziest!) Oshkosh Jaycees gather their warmest clothes, a golf club, a tennis ball and their friends and head to Menominee Park in Oshkosh for…Ice Golf!

Want to see some crazy Jaycees playing golf in February?

Join us on Sunday, February 21, 2010.

We’ll start at St. Thomas Bar, 693 Main St., Oshkosh, at 9:00 a.m. for a warm-up drink.

At 10:00 a.m., we head to Miller’s Bay in Menominee Park.  (Take Main St. to E. Irving Ave. and park by the docks.)  Bring one golf club of your choice and one tennis ball!  The course will be laid out.

After about an hour and a half, we’ll head to Terry’s Lounge, 688 N. Main St., for a lunch and drinks.

I hope to see you there!

On Tuesday, November 17 the Oshkosh Jaycees met and elected the 2010 officers and board of directors. Congratulations to the following members!

President – Heather Bartel
Management Vice President – Jason Rosenau
Individual/Membership Development Vice President – Melissa Pezzuto
Community Development Vice President – Matt Mutz
Secretary – Jes Borland
Treasurer – Jeremy Burri
Board of Directors -
Stefanie Peterson
Jeff Jahnke

This is a great group of leaders, and we know we will have a successful 2010!

The Oshkosh Jaycees are partnered with Washington Elementary School through the Oshkosh Chamber of Commerce’s Partners at Learning (PAL) program. We’re excited to help Washington any way we can!

One of the ways we help is through a school supplies drive every summer. Our members collect the supplies, and we donate them to the school! August 2009 marks our fifth drive.

School supplies

Shown here are Oshkosh Jaycees President Jes Borland and Washington Principal Erin Kohl with the supplies we donated.