Thank You - Seymour Community "Muehl" Library!

 We appreciate your inviting space for the book event "Thankful for Reading" with our local authors for our first local fundraiser event with Seymour Community Group

A kind appreciation for Elizabeth, Library Directory & Programmer with Seymour Community Muehl Library! The event was planned during a Green Bay Packers game and fortunately with the win, we were still able to host the event and created some experience for our authors. The readership in the community was evident in personal support systems where our interactions created a resource depot of conversations to support each career and venture in the publishing to print process. 

Our presentations created a sense of preparedness for the opportunities to expand target audiences and become enriched with the literature resources available online in the form of contests, publishing opportunities for first-time authors, cash prizes, mentorship prizes, and overall resources with events that in-person encounters can make personal contact a commitment to their products, information, art. 

We wish our local authors the best of luck and sincere gratitude for providing us this opportunity to host an event in honor of being thankful for reading. A great cause for any community in raising literacy rates by providing the time with our family members to read a book aloud and showcase our comprehension of its details, explaining their favorite part of the excerpt, and describing how this relates to them are great ways of communicating and building relationships of communication in any family setting. I highly encourage every body to pick up a book and start reading! 

Thank You all who provided food, art, products, attention, and love to this event! 

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Check the calendar! We need you at this event! Help us celebrate our Thankful For Reading Book Event!

We are hosting a Thankful For Reading Book Event!

Two Local Authors will be reading excerpts from their recent publications - 

The Little Prince and his pup Dupree by Sadie Quinn
&
Strong Hearts are Mandatory: Heart of Glass by Teelia Pelletier

We will be handing out door prizes, having a baked goods sale, and a silent auction war with voting for the best cover art themed mock contest prompt category with intermission light refreshments and music. Get the opportunity to respond with publishing questions/interest and network with other book lovers! Their books will be available for purchase and signing at the event! Click the link if you want it now on Amazon!

 

Bag-Saver Fundraiser!

Watch for the Bag Saver Fundraiser!

This effort proceeds are collected as a community towards the creation of this product. 

This is a collected effort, volunteers are actively being recruited to work on this project and receive cash for services:

Artwork Collection - check the blog: https://scgscgscg.blogspot.com website and click on the tabs for "Artwork Submission Form" and follow the instructions on the form. 

Options on how to help will be provided once submitted through your contact information, please double check this when submitting your form. 

All artwork from an 8"x11" standard sheet of paper, folded into sections of 16 will be paid for $0.50 a square. These are used for the "Thank You" cards wrapped with the bag-saver, indicating the reduce, reuse, recycle campaign for plastic bags. This is an effort to help with oceanic plastic waste, waste management overall, and to help our local community raise money for the holidays! 

Volunteer efforts with a sewing machine are encouraged to apply!

Other volunteer positions include sewing, ironing, measuring/cutting, and documenting sales, distributing locations, and marketing online. 

Any donations of fabric, materials, or monetary donations to be specifically applied for this project are appreciated! 

This is following the guidelines of the Wisconsin self-sustaining groups to form for a profit, within documented statutes in accordance with the law with goals of obtaining a raffle license, must comply within documented resources of applying self-sufficient services to community as specified in its bylaws as responsible and subject to pertain to its area only. This is in the formation, where our authorized and acceptance will be with the city of Seymour in the near future. 

SCFG mock Cover Art Contest Announcement:

 

This event is for the competitive artistic types who want to settle an illustrative dispute with a silent auction. 

Rules:

1. Prompts will be provided. Example: Draw a picture of a puppy and a child doing an activity of your choice. 

2. At the Thankful For Reading book event, there will be a silent auction with these prompt categories with different submissions. They will have a an opportunity to have a sheet of paper with lines of bids to fill, to help gain their vote on the best qualified cover art submission. 

3. These will be $1 a line, $2 a line, and $5 a line (multiple submissions for one artwork only please!)

4. A voting line for free (one only vote per contest, per prompt subject). 

5. If provided an email, name for contacting future events to invite to, participate in, about the SCFG as a contact to keep - and their cover art vote wins, they will get their money back plus double their vote denomination return if involved in a contest. Note: The more people involve the better the results!

6. The remaining fundraised money will go towards the expansion plan of the Seymour "Muehl" Community Library! 

If you are interested in creating some mock cover art to participate in a silent auction - follow the instructions on the "Artwork Submission Form" tab on the blog home page!

If you want to vote with a monetary donation in a friendly contest with the silent auction - participate at the event for other door prize opportunities! Save the Date! December 7, 2025 from 11am to 3pm at the Muehl Community Library in Seymour, WI. 

Thankful For Reading Book Event!

 Save The Date Announcement!

December 7, 2025

Thankful For Reading
Book Event

2 Local Authors will be reading excerpts from their latest books! 

There will be a gift giveaway so that you are not flexing the pocketbook this holiday season, arrive to the event with the chance to win a gift! There will be plenty of reasons to purchase fundraised baked goods and take a chance in the silent auction for local community mock cover art contests! 

Check it out, we will be having a great time with getting to know our community and the process behind publishing a book, the results of the book, and the support of two of our talented authorships within our community!

SCFG Artwork Flyer Collection Announcement:

 If you see these flyers hanging up around town, here is a little bit more information on why, who, what, where, and when!

Why, Why, Why

We want to create a budget with fundraising efforts from a collective effort to raise money for support in local efforts of financial relief. The holidays arriving could benefit from a small effort of prepared volunteers, events for fundraising towards a better cause, and fundraised "giveaways" to help support local business and talent in our community while having fun! We will be creating new ways to fundraise throughout the year and updating an online community with this blog: www.seymourcommunitygroup.blogspot.com!

What - types of things will you be doing?

Creating events and efforts to raise money for community sponsored fundraising efforts. After creating our bylaws and selecting our officers to become an official group - this announcement is going to be posted, while the other tab on the home page of the blog called "Group Agenda" is where you will find more information on this if you are interested. We want to sort through and select our efforts to encourage and help will be based on overall budget, impact, and targeted audience with requested volunteer group size. We want to create a place where we can gather as a resource to help our community raise funds for personal reasons and things that we want to see in return from them to create a community effort. 

The example of this is to volunteer for the next effort, to attend a sponsored event, to provide a donation when you can, to participate in a local event. We may request a type of term of commitment we want to see you invest back into your community while we pull together and help your cause, effort, reason of request. 

There will be ongoing projects that may need support. Those will be posted here on the blog and expansion into other social media will be expected to get communication opened with our causes. 

We want to have fun, raising money and healthy participation, for our community! 

Who - is going to be involved?

Seymour Community residents are welcome to join. If you have a personal criminal history, if you could please inform us of any restraints that you may have with children or elderly, that would be appreciated. You will be subject to an open record search. 

When can I suggest a fundraising effort?

We will prepare a form and place it in a tab on the blog website when that is available. 

We want to encourage participation and will base these sponsorships by season. If there are ongoing efforts that can be done, small groups will form and continue those efforts. The idea is to create a reliable budget to assist with learning small job skills to document and help others in a time of need (from home business ideas with the fundraising efforts expanding to an eBay account or Etsy account, etc.) to hold as a resource. Project management skills, budgeting, and other resources can be made available to raise efforts for the local pantry and education system.

Where is this being held?

Seymour Community Fundraising Groups (SCFG) will be hosting their meetings virtually until a larger group can participate. Then we will post a venue to host a meeting to get participation, events, and other community announcements together for an in-house pot luck. Can't have a meeting without food! The larger the group the more that can be done!

Summary

This is just a friendly reminder if we want to see change and prevention in our community - we have to support each other and become available to help so that in our time of need, we will be best assisted by those that truly do care about us. We are productive with our time and encourage growth within the group. I expect to see training groups, events of creativity, and local reasons to get out there and shop around!