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Golf – 2023
Storybridge-Izzy Zimmerman
Storybridge is one of our community placements for the 2022-2023 year. Our volunteers played an integral role in the Storybridge Live event held at Hodgetown. Full of characters that kids love and inspiring their creativity in a safe place, parents were happy to be there as well. Anna Ortega, one of the Storybridge placement coordinators, […]
Best of Texas 2022 Review by Susannah Dorton
This year’s Best of Texas fundraising event featured Easton Corbin and Roger Creager, with a VIP Dinner hosted by Pat Green & Lindsey Lane. Funds raised through the event go toward JLA’s annual community grants given to local nonprofits. This year’s BOT was new, bigger, and better. Our new partnership with Starlight Ranch provided a […]
Homecoming Mum-Making with Amarillo Children’s Home – McCall Money
The Amarillo Children’s Home has provided a home, security, and acceptance for displaced children since 1924. When children in the Amarillo area need a supportive place to live, the outstanding members of ACH go above and beyond to provide care for each child. One of the many activities they organize is Mum-Making for the Tascosa […]
A Rainbow of Color for Colorful Closets – McCall Money
This fall, at the October parallel general membership meetings, Junior League of Amarillo members donated clothes for Colorful Closets, with 49 members participating. The mission of Colorful Closets is to collect, organize and distribute clothing for children and adolescents throughout the Amarillo, Bushland, and Canyon areas. They aim to meet the needs of those in […]
Little League Library Unveiled
On September 21, 2022 we unveiled our very own Little League Library! Our Members filled the shelves with cherished children’s books (picture books to middle school). We are so appreciative of the ladies that poured their hearts into this project! If you look very closely, you can see the little library has been painted to […]
KAMR Interview
AMARILLO, Texas (KAMR/KCIT) — The Junior League of Amarillo is coming off a great Best of Texas event, and now they turn their sights on the fall season. They’ve teamed up with several organizations for the rest of 2022 and into 2023 including the High Plains Food Bank, San Jacinto Success, and Storybridge. For more […]