Happy birthday to the Livonia Jaycees! Our chapter was founded on this day in 1953 with 19 charter members. To celebrate, I'd like to share some history. Credit due to Nicholas John Pickard and Friday Musings (Bill Joyner) for their contributions! The Wilson Barn has become a well-known historical landmark and cultural hub in Livonia. The 1973 Livonia Jaycees and Jaycettes, a sizable chapter of 200 members, helped put the Barn on the map. In particular, Bill Joyner credits Sharon Brown, Sue Wozniak and Paula Joyner with collecting 5,000 signatures for the Save the Barn petition! The Barn was added to the National Register of Historic Places on December 12th, 1973. In the years since, our chapter has given back to our community through a variety of programming, including Lagers for Lunches, Murder Mystery, Livonia Bar Crawl, Activate Small Business Conference, and Small Business Saturdays. I want to thank all our members, past and present, for your contributions to our chapter and the community. With sincere gratitude, Meghan Rokita 72nd Livonia Jaycees President (fb)

The Livonia Jaycees are happy to announce that, as a result of your support at our Lagers for Learning event, we were able to clear out the Amazon wishlist for Living and Learning Enrichment Center's Mod Market, which will provide furniture and supplies for both Mod Market and their soap and candle studio, Village Arts Factory. We are happy to support their mission to provide employment training for individuals with different abilities and feature their artistic talents - some of which you might have seen at our silent auction! We also want to once more thank our sponsors, RoadEx, Vibe Credit Union, CVF Credit Union, Golden Mortgage Company, JB Tools and the family of Renee Geisinger. We hope to make next year's event bigger and better as we continue our fundraising tradition in memory of Renee. Thank you for your continued support! (fb)