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Fairmont Branch

Co-President:    Linda Paplinski   email    507-235-5446
Co-President:    Elly Sherry    email  507-235-9640

The Fairmont Branch is hosting a Tour of Homes Saturday, Sept. 25, 2010 from 10am to 4pm.  It is featuring 4 homes on three different lakes in Fairmont.  Tickets available at the door or from any Fairmont AAUW branch member.  For further information and locations, please call 507-238-4087.

FAIRMONT Best of the Year

 When the Fairmont branch set its program in the summer of 2008, never in our wildest dreams did we realize that we had such a winner for our January program. We arranged for Secretary of State Mark Ritchie to speak to us, not realizing that the date of the meeting, January 26, was going to be the starting date for the court case arguing the results of the Minnesota Senatorial race that had taken place in November. Secretary Ritchie was extremely interesting and informative. The public was invited to this presentation and the local newspaper covered it with an article and story the next day.

Other programs of interest included a field trip to a local organic food/grains farm, a presentation by local high school students regarding support for fellow students dealing with drug and alcohol abuse in their families, an explanation of the program “Kids Against Hunger,” and the Martin County Drug Court Coordinator with one of her “success students.” Our Christmas gathering was a social time with wine and appetizers where money was collected for EF and LAF via white elephant drawings.

Our September Tour of Homes was another rousing successful venture raising money to fund our two scholarships (graduate and undergraduate), which are managed through the local Dollars for Scholars, and for other educational interests. This event serves as an extremely effective fundraiser, but also is very good at raising community interest in AAUW. The local newspaper works well with us and devotes an entire supplement to the homes on our tour.

We look forward to our remaining programs for this year and to a new year full of promise.