Friday, February 17th, 6:00pm, Cadillac Lanes in Waterloo

Join us for the ‘crush’ party! You, and your friends, are invited to attend. Come enjoy a night of food, networking and bowling. Bring a potential new member and both of your games of bowling, shoe rental and pizza are free! Current members who don’t have a potential new member to bring, but want to join, the cost for two games of bowling and shoes will be $8. RSVP to membership@waterloojaycees.org!

March 30, 2012 7:00 pm Young Arena

Come join us for a night of Waterloo Black Hawks hockey as they take on the Tri-City Storm. 

Check back soon for more details!

Graduating seniors at an accredited high school within the Waterloo Community School District planning to attend an Iowa college or university are encouraged to apply for the $1,000 Waterloo Jaycees Scholarship. Qualified students must have demonstrated experience in service to others throughout the community as well as involvement in extracurricular activities. While a minimum GPA of 2.5 is required, the selection process focuses more on community service. The Waterloo Jaycees offer this scholarship to promote voluntarism and community service in youth, and to foster an attitude of service that will grow into adulthood.

Students must submit a personal essay, transcript and resume along with the application form. Deadline for application is in April each year. Applications will be reviewed based on the following criteria (listed in order of priority):

1. Overall quality of written essay
2. Record of community service
3. Academic achievement

Deadline for 2012 is April 23rd, 2012

Click Here to download the 2012 Application Form.

The Waterloo Jaycees have been delivering summer fun to children since 1964 through our Annual Sandbox Drive.

Taking place yearly in May, the Waterloo Jaycees hand build and sell sandboxes as a fundraiser to help implement projects throughout the year. The cost of each sandbox is $50 which includes the construction, sand and delivery. Each sandbox is 5’ x 5’ in size and new orders come with two wheelbarrows of sand. Community members can also purchase wheelbarrows of sand to fill previously purchased sandboxes or for other outdoor needs at a cost of $5 per wheelbarrow. Delivery is limited to the Waterloo, Cedar Falls & Evansdale city limits.

Each year Aspro Inc. generously donations the sand and delivery vehicles to the Jaycees and local building supply stores donate a portion of the lumber to help make this annual event a success.

The Waterloo Jaycees Fireworks Festival is one of the few community-based fireworks displays in the Cedar Valley. With no admission fee, the Fireworks Festival has drawn up to 30,000 people to downtown Waterloo and encourages festival attendees of all ages, socioeconomic statuses, and backgrounds to come together in one location to celebrate our countries independence.

The Fireworks Festival is a community event that enhances life in the Cedar Valley and strives to bring the entire community together. This annual festival is held on the first Saturday in July each year and features entertainment, food vendors, beverages and a beer garden. A rain-date on Sunday is in place just incase bad weather persists.  For 2012 our festival is scheduled to be Saturday July 7th, with a rain date of Sunday July 8th.

The Waterloo Jaycees have been involved with coordinating the Fireworks Festival since at least 1995. At that time the festival was a collaboration with now Main Street Waterloo. In 2002 the Waterloo Jaycees became the sole organization in charge of planning and implementing the festival. Known as one of the largest fireworks displays in Eastern Iowa, the event is completely run and staffed by volunteers and is the second largest project run by the Waterloo Jaycees.

For more information contact:
Agnes Kress, 2012 Fireworks Chair
fireworks@waterloojaycees.org

YOU can help make it happen – Become a Fireworks Sponsor!

We would like to invite YOU to be involved! With the help of fantastic sponsors the festival can continue to grow and bring people, entertainment and revenue to Waterloo.

The Fireworks Festival is supported and sponsored by area businesses which allow the Jaycees to provide this FREE family-friendly opportunity for the community. Please consider becoming a sponsor and together we can continue our strong fireworks tradition while promoting your business to Eastern Iowa.

Volunteer Your Time!

There are three shifts between 6:00 p.m. and Midnight.
Help with: checking ID’s, selling beer tickets, pouring beer or selling glow products.
Businesses & organizations are encouraged to volunteer and wear company clothing to promote their organization.

Click Here to Volunteer!!!

Vendors

The Waterloo Jaycees Fireworks Festival has room for up to 12 vendors. Three with 220 Volt connections and 9 with 120 Volt power, they will be filled on a first come, first serve basis. If you wish to be a vendor please see the attached Vendor Letter and Application. Applications should be postmarked by May 15, 2011, unless waved by the Vendors committee.

2011 Vendor Letter and Application

Established in 1933 by the Waterloo Jaycees, the Waterloo Open Golf Classic has grown to be Iowa’s largest professional golf tournament and the state’s largest Jaycee event.

Welcome to the 78th Annual Jaycee Greater Waterloo Open! The Waterloo Open is the largest and longest-running professional tournament in Iowa.

This year’s event will begin at South Hills Golf Course on Wednesday with the 8th Annual Don Narveson Youth Golf Clinic. This program is offered to any child under the age of 18. It includes golf instruction from several professionals from this year’s Open field. The Youth Clinic includes a free lunch and door prizes. Please click on the Youth Clinic link for more information about that part of the Waterloo Open.

The Pro/Sponsor event begins on Thursday at Irv Warren Memorial Golf Course at Byrnes Park. The Pro/Sponsor tournament is a two-day event of approximately 75 teams that include one professional and four sponsor players. Each player plays his or her own ball on every hole, and the three low net scores on each hole are used to calculate the team score. Winning teams are awarded with gift certificates to the Irv Warren Memorial Pro Shop and the professionals are awarded cash prizes.
The amateur tournament showcases all three of Waterloo’s public golf courses. The amateur tournament starts on Friday. All participants play a qualifying round at Gates Park Golf Course and South Hills Golf Course on Friday and Saturday. The low 40 and ties using the combined scores at both courses have the opportunity to join their professional counterparts on Sunday at Irv Warren Memorial Golf Course for the final round. Amateurs are awarded gift certificates to the three local Pro Shops.

192 professional golfers from around the world tee it up Saturday morning with their sights on the $50,000 first place check. The low 50 scores, plus ties, advance to Sunday’s final round.

Volunteer Information

We still need volunteers for helping with the concessions tent, merchandising tent, Par 5 spotters at Irv Warren Golf Course on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. The volunteer shifts will start at 9:00 AM and will be 3 hour shifts. We also need volunteers to help at the two amateur courses of Gates and South Hills on Friday and Saturday. These shifts will be starting at 8:00 AM, again 3 hours long.

Click Here to Volunteer!!!

The Waterloo Jaycees are pleased to announce their partnership with the Cedar Trails Partnership in regards to the 31st annual Canoe Cedarloo. This year the race will be held in conjunction with the Cedar Valley Trails Festival August 10-14^th. The canoe race will be held Saturday August 13th at 10 am.

This will be the 31st year that the Waterloo Jaycees have run the canoe race making it the oldest sanctioned race in the state of Iowa. The race is approximately 7.5 miles along the Cedar River, starting at the Main Street Bridge in Gateway Park in Cedar Falls and ending near the location of the boat house in Waterloo. It is open to both racing and recreational canoeists and kayakers of all ages. Those under age 18 must have parental consent before they can compete.

The Canoe Cedarloo is a community event that enhances life in the Cedar Valley and strives to bring the entire community together. The benefits of this event reach beyond that one Saturday afternoon in August Any profits made at this event go towards our Gift of Giving event in December. Gift of Giving is an event Designed to take 90 at-risk children in the Cedar Valley shopping to purchase holiday/Christmas gifts for their family.

We would like to invite you to be involved. With your help the race can continue to grow and bring people to Waterloo. Thank you for taking the time in either sponsoring, participating, volunteering or watching this annual event.
Agnes Kress – 2011 Canoe Committee Chair akakress@msn.com

For more information about Cedar Valleys Trials Festival, please visit them at www.reserveiaparks.com

APRIL 24TH AT FIESTA JALISCO (350 Fletcher Ave, Waterloo)

Come relax with your Jaycee friends after a long week. We’ll be there no later than 5:30, but come when you can. Don’t forget to invite friends, co-workers and those interested in membership! Bring a prospective member & both you & them receive your first beverage on the house.

Taking place yearly in May, the Waterloo Jaycees hand build and sell sandboxes as a fundraiser to help implement projects throughout the year.

With the help of Volunteers and local business’s donations, the Jaycees build and deliver sandboxes to houses and then fill them with sand.

The Waterloo Jaycees Annual Holiday Gift of Giving event is the chapter’s largest youth based event. Designed to take 90 at-risk children in the Cedar Valley shopping to purchase holiday/Christmas gifts for their family, the event encompasses the true spirit of the Waterloo Jaycees, to give.

The Annual event targets at-risk children from all backgrounds across the Cedar Valley – from broken homes, foster children, handicapped children, academically challenged, those battling illness and the financially disadvantaged.

The Gift if Giving event could not take place without the generosity of Blain’s Farm & Fleet. Blain’s supports this excellent cause by providing a venue for this occasion, by opening their doors early specifically for the children, and by providing a discount on all merchandise purchased by the Waterloo Jaycees. Last year alone the Waterloo Jaycees spent over $2,090 on this annual project.

The day begins by gathering volunteers and children at the United Auto Workers (UAW) Hall Local 838 (2615 Washington Street, Waterloo) as early as 6:00 a.m. on the first Saturday of December. This year’s event will take place on Saturday, December 3, 2011. Volunteers are needed to help shop with the children who are selected to participate in the event. At 7:00 a.m. Blain’s Farm & Fleet will open its doors for our group only and then the children will begin the fun part of the day, shopping. By 8:30 a.m. all volunteers and children will arrive back at the UAW Hall to wrap gifts and enjoy breakfast.

If you are interested in volunteering, we need your help. Over 50 volunteers are needed to help chaperone and shop with the children as well as help prepare and serve breakfast. Please see the attached Volunteer Information Page for further details.

For more information about the Gift of Giving please contact the 2011 Chairperson, Cheryl Meller at 319-404-1316.

Volunteer your time!

If you are interested in volunteering, we need your help. Over 50 volunteers are needed to help shop with the children as well as help prepare and serve breakfast. Please see the below Volunteer Information Page for further details.

Kids Helping Kids

Kids Helping Kids is a program created by Blain’s Farm & Fleet, which teaches children the importance and beauty of giving to others in need. Through this program, parents register their children to win gift cards at Blains. Then, on behalf of the winning children, Blain’s Farm & Fleet donates a matching dollar amount to charity. Since 2004, the Waterloo Jaycees have assisted Blains Farm & Fleet through choosing a worthy organization in our area and then using the matching dollars to purchase items from Blains that will benefit that organization. Some of the organizations that have received these gifts since the Jaycees have been involved are:

• Children of Military families over seas
• Cedar Valley Hospice, The Eucalyptus Tree program
• Department of Human Services, Foster Care Program

Thanks to Blains Farm and Fleet for letting us to help with this heartwarming cause.

“In 2006 the Waterloo Jaycees partnered with Blains Farm and Fleet’s Kids Helping Kids Program. The Waterloo Jaycees chose the Department of Human Services, Foster Care Program as a program that is deserving of the $300 gift card from Blains Farm and Fleet. The gift card was used to purchase backpacks and stuffed animals/books for children who are removed from homes in an emergency situation. Thanks to Blain Farm and Fleet for helping us touch the hearts of those in need”

View our thank you from
Stacy Baranowski – The Eucalyptus Tree, A program of Cedar Valley Hospice