#2: Supporting Free Dental Care. Our committee has decided to offer substantial financial support to Burlington dentist Steve Slott's Open Door Dental Clinic this year. This amazing service involves dentists from all over our state offering free dental services. Dr. Slott says "So many people just can not get insurance, and can't get the dental work they desperately need. There is such a need." Thirty chairs and twenty dentists accommodated over 300 people during the recent two day clinic.

#3: Fostering our Four Legged Friends. Our local Humane Society of Alamance County offers low cost spay and neutering as well as providing foster animals for adoption at adoption fairs and through our local PetSmart. We have supported HSAC this year at Stevenson Vestal as a company and as individuals by fabricating a bedding ensemble, hand crafting eight handbags and providing a mountain lake get-a-way vacation all for the upcoming Heaven For Bid live and silent auction. This event will benefit HSAC and two other local non-profit groups: The Arc (Association for Retarded Citizens) and Habitat for Humanity of Alamance County NC.

#4: Reaching Out to Educators and Businesses. At our recent fund raiser Hog Dog Lunch we invited the two principals from our Adopt-a-Classroom schools, Mr. George Boschini of Haw River Elementary and Ms. Lynn Norris of E. M. Holt Elementary as well as Heather Jordan, representing the Education Council of our local Chamber of Commerce to judge our Pumpkin Pie and Jack-o'-lantern contests. You can imagine the difficult job our judges had tasting all those pies, but someone had to do it! Also attending as an alternate judge in case any of the other judges could not complete their consuming duties, we hosted our sales representative Elizabeth Stanfield with Carolina Biological, the company that has supplied our adopted classrooms with science equipment at a generous discount for the past two school years. Pumpkin pie contest winners shown below right: Drapery Artisan Gwen Mebane, Workleader Terri Yarbrough and Swag Artisan Dianne Watkins.

#5: Putting on the Pink at Junior Achievement Bowl-a-thon. The SV bowling team offered their support and their back muscles to the task of bowling to benefit our local Junior Achievement group. The SV team included (left to right in picture below) Workroom Manager Mary Deem, Customer Service Representative Jodi Morris, Information Technology wiz DeDe Maddox and Order Processing team members Tammy Thompson and Tina Cobb. The evening saw strikes, spares and lots of fun all around.