Check out our March 2011 Issue for more of your favorites! From Motorcycle Mama's 'Biker Chicks Astrology Forecast', to Debbie Pettit's 'Muffin Top', to Auburn Road Vineyards 'Cooking with Wine' - as always, there is a little something for everyone!
We celebrated Valentine's Day with a wonderful article by our own Lolae Joline Lambert as well as digging through our archives of other Valentine's Day articles. Click here to read our February 2011 issue!
Where is Your Heart?
by Lolae Joline Lambert
As a child, I remember going to the store and purchasing bags and bags of Valentine cards to give to classmates…They were all shapes and sizes with different messages and sometimes even required assembly. It was fun…carefully selecting the one in the bags that fit the person, signing the cards, and sharing with others. In the early years everyone gave a Valentine to everyone in the class. No one felt left out. [more]
For January's Issue, we featured a brave woman, Brittni Hurff, a victim of a horrible rape in Salem County. Her story is inspirational as she has decided that she will not remain a victim and will instead speak out in an effort to help other women become "survivors" instead of "victims".
"I am a mother of five. I homeschool, I am a daughter, a sister, and a dance teacher. I am someone’s girlfriend. I am also known as 'The Woman In The Park'..." [more]
If you or someone you know is suffering from domestic violence, please go to http://www.SalemCountyWoman.com/HELP to get information about Salem County Women's Services including their 24 Hour Emergency Hotline.
In December of 2010, we celebrated our 1st Anniversary of The Women of Salem County. With over 1,100 Facebook fans and a tremendous amount of traffic to the magazine over year - not to mention the $10,000+ dollars raised and donated to charity or charitable causes in our name due to the efforts of Salem County's women in just under one year, we were well on our well to becoming a very established magazine in the county.
We had a special edition of the magazine, our largest ever, to celebrate the anniversary with many new articles and several from previous editions - 27 all in total (if you count recipes). We also reformatted the magazine a bit to make it more attractive and to better promote our sponsors. Click here to read our December 2010 Anniversary issue!
This month, our featured woman is Motorcycle Mama! Check out her latest article and be sure to read all of her past articles as well if you missed any of them!
Thanks Mama for contributing to our magazine and for helping to promote a positive image of women motorcyclists and in fact of all motorcyclists in general!
A great big thanks to everyone who participated in last month's "Shake Your Booty For Judy Zumbathon"! We want to especially thank Debbie Pettit from Lady Fitness Health Spa and the ladies from her gym for putting this benefit together and Judy's coffee club girls for all the work they did behind the scenes. We had a great turn out and raised a lot of money, which will hopefully make things just a little bit easier for Judy. Click here to watch a slideshow of the event! Click here to read November's issue!
For the month of October, we honored Judy Baker (pictured on the right), a Woodstown resident diagnosed with Acute Myeloid Leukemia (AML). Judy is a personal friend of our Editors, Christine DeGraff and our sponsor, Debbie Pettit of Lady Fitness Health Spa. Christine, Debbie and a group of Judy's "coffee club" friends teamed up and held a "Shake Your Booty For Judy ZUMBATHON" sponsored by Lady Fitness Health Spa to raise money to help her with her medical and household bills. We also wrote some "Letters to Judy" and many of our readers wrote in and we know you all had her in your thoughts and prayers. Click here to read October's issue!
We had another great magazine filled with 10 great articles for your reading enjoyment! Besides your favorites, Julianne & Scott Donnini from Auburn Road Vineyards, Colleen Verton from Pink Lotus Yoga, Debbie Pettit from Lady Fitness Health Spa, Motorcycle Mama, Lolae Joline Lambert and C and Bea Tours, we have been introducing some new "regulars" lately to our monthly line-up! Click here to read Septembers issue!
This month, we spotlighted our featured businesses in our Business & Finance section. It is our advertising sponsors who are supporting our efforts to provide you with a free monthly online magazine for your reading pleasure. We hope that you will support them in turn by participating in our shop local campaign and help us keep our small businesses in Salem County! Click here to see our spotlighted businesses and to read August's articles!
Due to the popularity of The Women of Salem County, we decided to expand to both Gloucester and Cumberland Counties. In July, we introduced Owner/Editor Esther Lankitus from our newest 'sister magazine', The Women of Cumberland County, as she launched her inaugural issue, and Owner/Editor June Swords Bower, already a pro with her 3rd issue of The Women of Gloucester County.
In June, we asked our readers to nominate a special man in their life to be honored for Father's Day. We received several great letters and we posted them all to our Facebook page, and we featured the two that we felt really stood out: "My Hero and the man my kids call Dad" and "My Husband Is My Hero".
In May, we held our 1st Annual Charity Singles' Mixer & Bachelor Auction at Auburn Road Vineyards. A total of $3,835.00 was raised for Salem County Women's Services and The April Pettit Memorial Foundation! Click here to read the articles and find out who was voted "Salem County's Most Eligible Bachelor 2010"!
We surprised our featured women this month, Debbie Pettit and Jennifer Dubler, by not announcing them until Mother's Day! Check out what their loved ones wrote about these special ladies!
Last month, we asked our readers to nominate bachelor candidates for our search for Salem County's Most Eligible Bachelors - and WOW! What a great bunch of candidates!!! During the month of April, our readers voted for their favorite bachelors to be "auctioned off" for charity. Over 1,700 votes were cast and an amazing 23,000+ page views to the site were recorded! Click here to read the articles and see the bachelors in our April issue!
March is Women's History Month, now celebrated annually in the United States. This year's theme is "Writing Women Back into History" and commemorates the National Women's History Project's 30th Anniversary. Click here to learn about two brave women in Salem County's history.
We had a lot of fun this month on Facebook with our search for Salem County's Most Eligible Bachelor! At the end of the month, we had 23 bachelor candidates for our auction on May 2nd.
Our featured women this month were Cherie Lombardo and Tara LaRosa. Cherie is the Principal of Pitman Highschool, a marathon runner, and a very inspirational woman. Tara is the No. 1-Rated Female Mixed Martial Artist in the World and calls Salem County her home! Click here to read the articles in our March issue!
Last year at the Salem County Chamber of Commerce Women's Leadership Symposium, Hon. Gilda Gill, Salem County Clerk, gave an interesting account of several women that are a part of Salem County's history. February 2010 - Go Red for Women!
To raise awareness in support of the fight against heart disease, we encouraged women to wear red on Feb 12th. A group of local women braved the snow and gathered at Lady Fitness to have a group photo taken by Dee Marie Photography.
We had a "supersized" issue this month with over 20 articles! Click here to read the articles! We added a new featured writer, "Motorcycle Mama" and a new monthly "scheduled chat" feature which will be held the second Monday of each month at 8pm.
Our featured women this month were Lou Henderson, an amazing woman 82 years young whose hobbies include sky diving, hot air ballooning, zip lining over the rain forest... (You don't believe us? We have pictures!!!) and Judge E. Elaine Voyles, a lifetime resident of Salem County who was recently appointed by Governor Corzine to serve as a Workers Compensation Court Judge - the first women resident of Salem County to receive a judicial appointment. Click here to read the articles in our February issue!
Does this shirt make me look fat?
We had a little fun this month and featured a cute little dog wearing a different outfit in every section. Of course, we would prefer to feature the pets of our own Salem County readers in upcoming issues, so if your pet is totally adorable, send your pet's photo to us by clicking here!
We just felt like having some "doggone fun" in January so we stuffed it full of doggies in cute outfits! Featured women were Peg Marshall, Executive Director Meals on Wheels Salem County and Salem County Freeholder, Julie A. Acton. Click here to read the articles in January's issue!
Going to a holiday cookie exchange and still don't have a recipe? Try one of these great cookie recipes in Debbie Pettit's 2009 Cookie Exchange Recipe Book. (0.29 MB .pdf)
Bon Appétit!
Our very first issue of The Women of Salem County was "jam packed" with a "baker's dozen" of great articles written just in time for the holiday season! Featured women were Ceil Smith, Publisher of Today's Sunbeam and Salem County Freeholder, Beth E. Timberman. Check it out!
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