What's Happening in the Arlington Links the Week of January 20,2020

What's Happening This Week in The Arlington Links?

Check out what we will be up to this week of January 20, 2020

This Week's Communication

Contains The Following:

Mark Your Calendars
Chapter Updates
National Headquarters Update
Prayers, Blessings and Celebrations
New Member Spotlight
January Birthdays

MARK YOUR CALENDAR

12 th ANNUAL LINKS DMV RED DRESS EVENT

Hilton Alexandria Mark Center

5000 Seminary Road

Alexandria, VA

February 7, 2020

Vendor Expo and Reception 6:00 - 7:00 p.m.

Speakers and Panel Discussion 7:00 - 9:00 p.m.

ANNUAL LINKS DMV RED DRESS SUNDAY

Ebenezer AME Church

7707 Allentown Road

Fort Washington, Maryland

February 9, 2020

Links arrive in Red for reserved seating 10:15 a.m.

Worship Service 10:45 a.m.

Reception held immediately following the service.

Arlington (VA) February Chapter Meeting

Hilton Alexandria Mark Center

5000 Seminary Road

Alexandria, VA

February 8, 2020

11:00 a.m.

CHAPTER UPDATES

Join Arlington (VA) Chapter's

Health and Human Services

75 MILLION STEPS CHALLENGE TEAM

Step up with your Link Sisters to continue the Walk for Healthy Living: 75 Million Steps Challenge. As we prepare for our Red Dress Event and Monte Carlo 2020, put on your pedometer or smart device and track your steps.

We are asking each Link to take at least 5,000 steps a day. For those members where walking might be a challenge, we still encourage you to move — even if it is just a few simple stretches while at home. Every bit of movement is a step in the direction of greater health.

Download the easy to use worksheet to start tracking your steps and keep an eye out over the coming weeks from our the Membership Committee about opportunities to walk together.

Download the tracking sheet below and log your steps!!! At the end of each month, send your totals to our HHS Co-Chair, Link Yolanda Holmes at yolholmd@verizon.net. Link Yolanda will compile our stats and send our chapter totals to Eastern Area HHS Chair each month, as requested.

We've got this!

75 Million Steps Tracking Sheet

2019 Wings of Hope (Danglers) Campaign

Ends January 31, 2020

The International Trends and Services (ITS) Facet extends a heartfelt thanks to the generous donors and dedicated volunteers who supported the campaign to provide meals at school for 300 poor and vulnerable children in Carries, Haiti. More than $7K has been raised to date which will feed the children breakfast and lunch for approximately half of the school year.

$35 = 2 meals a day for 150 children for 1 day

$70 = 2 meals a day for 300 children for 1 day

$175 = 2 meals a day for 150 children for 1 week

$350 = 3 meals a day for 300 children for 1 week

$700 = 2 meals a day for 150 children for 1 month

$1400 = 2 meals a day for 300 children for 1 month

There is still time to make a donation by mailing a check payable to The Links Foundation, Incorporated to:

Arlington Links Chapter

P.O. Box 6252

Arlington, VA 22206-0252

Donors and volunteers will receive an official “thank you” from ITS after the Wings of Hope: Danglers for Service Campaign closes at the end of the month.

Thanks again Arlington Army...you are Angels!

Links Elaine Bush and Deborah "Gogo" Foster, Co-Chairs, ITS Facet

Learn More and Register Here

NATIONAL HEADQUARTERS UPDATES

Celebrate American Heart Month:

A Heart-to-Heart Link-to-Link Conversatio n

February 4, 2020 | 9:00 p.m. - 10:00 p.m. EST

Hosted by: Nicholette Martin,

Director, Health and Human Services

Please join Arlington Chapter's Link Nickie Martin, and the HeartLinks/Walk for Healthy Living Committee to learn more about how you can prevent heart disease by following a heart healthy lifestyle. It will be a great opportunity to learn about resources and tools that we can use for our program efforts to raise awareness about heart disease and encourage heart healthy lifestyles in our chapter and in the communities we serve.

PRAYERS, BLESSINGS, AND CELEBRATIONS

Prayers for the Loss of a Grandmother

We send our thoughts and prayers to Link Mary Dunaway-Kumi and her family for the recent loss of beloved grandmother, Beulah Houston, on January 19th. Beulah was blessed to reach 105 years of age and resided in Jonesboro, LA. The services will be held Saturday, Jan. 25, 2:30 pm at the Shady Grove Baptist Church in Saline, LA. Paradise Funeral Home in Jonesboro, LA. is handling the arrangements.

You may send cards and words of encouragement to:

Richard Kumi and Mary Dunaway-Kumi

4500 S Four Mile Run Dr., #1029

Arlington, Virginia 22204

Update on our Alumna Member Link Donna Ramsey

Great news! Link Donna Ramsey's knee replacement surgery was successful and she is on the mend. She has completed her stay at a local rehabilitation center and is now at home continuing her physical therapy as an out-patient.

You may send cards and words of encouragement to:

Donna E. Ramsey

P.O. Box 1045

Ft. Belvoir, VA 22060

Prayers for our Link Sisters and Connecting Link

Please extend your thoughts and prayers to former Arlington (VA) Chapter member and current Southern Area Alumna member, Link Cynthia Samuelson, and Connecting Link Laurence " Sam" in your prayers, as he continues to recover from a serious illness over the holidays. Connecting Link Sam is currently in a rehabilitation facility after a several week stay at Ohio State University Hospital. Thankfully he is being released soon and they will be driving back to Destin, Florida over the next several days.

You may send cards to:

Lawrence and Cynthia Samuelson

408 Kelly Plantation Drive, Unit 912

Destin, Florida 32541