Every Saturday and Sunday starting on November 5, Avancer Studio Portrait Photography will be offering mini holiday themed portrait sessions plus a free 8×10 for only $29.95. Half of the proceeds will go to support the Make A Wish foundation. This is a wonderful charity bringing wishes to children with debilitating illnesses. Appointments can be placed by either calling 419-464-2327 or by email at sandy@avancerstudio.com.

Date: November 5 – December 18, 2011
Time: 11:00 am – 8:00 pm

Avancer Studio Portrait Photography
723 Quigley St
Holland, OH 43538

Contact: Sandy Tripp
Phone: 419-464-2327
Email: sandy@avancerstudio.com

Freschetta is also giving away 50 (yep, 50!) pink iPod shuffles each week in October to encourage people to participate and the sharing of the Proud To Support Pink Program. In addition, they are also donating 50 iPod shuffles each week to cancer centers around the United Stated to be enjoyed by breast cancer patients during treatments.

THIS IS MY FIRST TIME USING RAFFLECOPTER SO PLEASE REPORT ANY PROBLEMS YOU MIGHT HAVE!

2413 Collingwood Blvd.
Toledo, OH 43620
419-244-2787

If There’s A Will, There’s A Way! A play written by local student, Opal S. L. Dunlap

Saturday, April 16th, 2011 @ 7pm

Tickets are $5.00 and can be purchased by clicking here. Tickets may also be purchased by calling 1-800-838-3006, or at the door.

Legendary Grammy Award Winning Musician George Winston Returns to the CAC!

Wednesday, April 13th, 2011 at 8pm.

Tickets are $10.00 and can be purchased by clicking here. Tickets may also be purchased by calling 1-800-838-3006, or at the door.

Solo pianist George Winston, best known for his seasonally themed recordings including DECEMBER, AUTUMN, WINTER INTO SPRING, and SUMMER, presents a solo piano concert.

This solo piano concert will feature selections from George’s melodic piano recordings, as well as R&B piano, stride piano, Vince Guaraldi’s Peanuts© pieces, and more. George will also play some Hawaiian Slack Key guitar.

There will also be a food drive at the concert in support of the Toledo Northwestern Ohio Food Bank. We would like to encourage audience members to bring a non-perishable donation to the concert.

In 1972 George recorded his first solo piano album, BALLADS AND BLUES 1972. Since 1980 George has released nine more solo piano albums: AUTUMN (1980), WINTER INTO SPRING (1982), DECEMBER (1982), SUMMER (1991), FOREST (1994), LINUS & LUCY-THE MUSIC OF VINCE GUARALDI (1996 – which features compositions by the late jazz pianist, including Cast Your Fate to the Wind and pieces from the Peanuts TV specials); PLAINS (1999 – which was inspired by his Eastern Montana upbringing), NIGHT DIVIDES THE DAY – THE MUSIC OF THE DOORS (2002), MONTANA A LOVE STORY (2004) and GULF COAST BLUES & IMPRESSIONS A HURRICANE RELIEF BENEFIT (2006). His latest release is LOVE WILL COME – THE MUSIC OF VINCE GUARALDI, VOL. 2 (2010).

Disclosure: Collingwood Arts Center is a Non-Profit Organization providing the people and arts community of greater Toledo a unique space wherein creativity, diversity and artistic expression is fostered and nourished thus serving the educational, social, and aesthetic needs of our region. I receive nothing for promote their events. I do it because I love their facility and hope it can be restored to it’s original state one day.

The amount of children who struggle with Hunger in the United States is crazy. Nearly 1 in 4 kids in America struggle with hunger. This is one of those things that you wish so badly that you could personally do something about. Like donate thousands of dollars maybe. Sadly, for most of us, that is not an option. So how can you help? Share your breakfast with Kellogg’s, and they’ll share breakfast with a child who needs it!

The Kellogg Company believes in the power of breakfast and how breakfast can help families make the most of each day’s possibilities. In partnership with Action for Healthy Kids, the Kellogg’s Share Your Breakfast program is designed to reach the goal of helping share one million breakfasts with kids who need them most.  Starting now and going through July 31^st 2011, take a photo of your breakfast and share it at www.shareyourbreakfast.com or text your photo with the “Share” to 21534.  Each time you share a photo or description of your breakfast, Kellogg will donate the monetary equivalent of school breakfasts to Action for Healthy Kids.

Please help us spread the word by encourageing your friends and families to upload their photos at www.shareyourbreakfast.com and tweet about Share Your Breakfast using #ShareURbreakfast

Disclosure: This is a sponsored post through a compensated Mom Bloggers Club member program

SentrySafe wants to help you give the perfect gift, get a little extra Holiday cheer and help a needy child stay warm this Holiday Season.

Getting started is simple just click the BUY button to see what products are featured in their Gift Guide and then head out to your local retailer or favorite website and pick up the SentrySafe that’s right for you.

Once you have it out of the box come back here and click the GET button. You will be able to register the product and enter the UL or Serial number and get a free gift card to Groupon! What’s a Groupon™ you ask? Click here to learn more.

SentrySafe is also proud to kick off our first annual coat drive for kids “Wrapped in Warmth”. Click on the GIVE button to play a fun, simple game and donate some warmth to a needy child. We are going to giveaway 250 new coats. For every level you complete you will be able to donate essential winter coats, mittens, hats, and scarves to needy children. We are going to giveaway 250 sets of new coats and accessories. So play our game, have some fun and spread the word!

Giveaway: Choice of a Pink or Black Fire Chest 1100 model

RULES: For Bonus Entries, if you do not leave the link to your Facebook profile so I can verify you “liked” I will not count your entry. Twitter entries must include a link to your Tweet. Tweets must be spaced no less than 60 mins apart. RTs of old posts are only good PER giveaway. You can’t use the same tweet for multiple giveaways. Same goes for post commenting. I need to be able to verify all entries! When blogging, giveaway must be listed in a NEW blog post for the day of your entry, not added to an old one.

Giveaway is open to US residents only who are 18 years of age or older. I reserve the right to remove any entry from this giveaway. This giveaway is sponsored by SentrySafe This giveaway ends 01/27/2011 at 11:59pm EST. If you are currently or have previously reviewed this product or participated in this campaign, you are ineligible to enter/win.