Get your "Churn On" in Mount Airy! Women in Motion to Host 2017 Feel the Churn Butter Aerobics5/22/2017 Join the Mount Airy Women in Motion on Wednesday, June 14th at 6 pm for this season's Feel the Churn Butter Aerobics to benefit the Central Maryland Making Strides Against Breast Cancer at Mount Airy Main Street Farmers' Market, 3 North Main Street in Mount Airy, Maryland. Come "Feel the Churn" while you get your work out, burn the fat, and make butter to the beat of the music with an aerobics instructor to make your own butter to take home to benefit and warm-up for the upcoming Central Maryland Making Strides Against Breast Cancer! While participants dance, they'll also get their churn on as they continuously shake jars filled with heavy whipping (butter) cream. The event participants are requested to make a $25.00 minimum donation when registering for this season's Mount Airy Women in Motion's Second Feel the Churn Butter Aerobics. In return, they will receive 2 Pint-sized jars with Butter Cream, and the pure buttery enjoyment to Feel the Churn! Preregistration is required. To register and to make a donation, please visit http://main.acsevents.org/goto/womeninmotion *In the event of rain, Feel the Churn will be held at Health Unlimited in Mount Airy.
Please remember to Buy Local & Eat Fresh at the Mount Airy Main Street Farmers’ Market, Every Wednesday, 3-7 pm, May 17- September 27, 2017! The Heavy Whipping (Butter) Cream is produced by some Lovely, Local Cows and provided by South Mountain Creamery! About Mount Airy Women in Motion: The Mount Airy Women in Motion are women business owners helping women business owners, advance, encourage and grow their businesses. We are group of Women Business Owners in the Mount Airy and surrounding areas networking together to help each other grow their businesses. We meet at the M&T Bank in Mt. Airy on the last Friday each month, 8:00 - 9:15 am, to network - share ideas and network or hear from different trainers and key note speakers. To learn more, please visit MountAiryWomenInMotionNews.weebly.com. Event Contact: Sheri Cates | E-mail: [email protected] | Phone: 301-829-9660
Mount Airy Women in Motion members Maria Petrucci, Kelly Frager, Cathy Schwartz Frattali, Linda M. Gourley, Vicky McClure, Linda Koons, Alice Settle-Raskin, Sheri Cates, Laura Wiese-Lopez, Stacy Simons, Christina Vaccare Martin, Ellie Bonde, Mary Ford-Naill, Amy Bednarcik Robin Nichols Cooney, Kim Feinberg DiBuono and Michelle Boccabella Hardisty. (Download High Resolution Photo Courtesy of the Mount Airy Women in Motion taken at the Aug. 26, 2016 meeting at M&T Bank, Mount Airy) Mount Airy, MD - The Mount Airy Women in Motion–a women’s business networking group—was the first to sponsor the Making Strides Against Breast Cancer of Central Maryland some six years ago when the walk began in 2011. Since then, the group that has remained a steady flagship sponsor collectively raised $41,995! The group is reaching for the stars with a fundraising goal of $50,000 this year. “It was important for this women's group of business leaders to wrap its arms around this event since breast cancer impacts so many women and men in our region,” conveyed Sheri Cates, founder of the Mount Airy Women in Motion. “I know in my heart that through the tremendous community support we can reach our fundraising goal.” With innovative fundraising events, such as the now annual “Feel the Churn Butter Aerobics,” the Group has been able raise holds an annual raffle benefit Making Strides Against Breast Cancer of Central Maryland. Participants will be able to see the basket completely filled with gifts and purchase tickets at Making Strides The winner of the raffle will be notified on Monday, October 17. Typically, the basket is valued at $500. “We enjoy seeing the community come out to support Making Strides,” said Mary Ford-Naill. “Whether you are an individual, part of a team or want to create your own team to walk, we welcome you to enjoy making strides.” The Making Strides Against Breast Cancer kicks off at 9:00 a.m. with the walk at 10:00 a.m. at Watkins Park just off of Route 27 North in Mount Airy. The three-mile Making Strides Against Breast Cancer walk that takes the enjoyable scenic route through the rolling hills of Watkins Park to Mount Airy’s Historic Main Street and loops back to the park through Mount Airy’s Old Main Line’s Rails-to-Trails hiking path. For more information about the Central Maryland Making Strides Against Breast Cancer, please visit www.makingstrideswalk.org/centralmd. About Mount Airy Women in Motion: The Mount Airy Women in Motion are women business owners helping women business owners, advance, encourage and grow their businesses. We are group of Women Business Owners in the Mount Airy and surrounding areas networking together to help each other grow their businesses. We meet at the M&T Bank in Mt. Airy on the last Friday each month, 8:00 - 9:15 am, to network - share ideas and network or hear from different trainers and key note speakers. To learn more, please visit MountAiryWomenInMotionNews.weebly.com. Media Contact: Sheri Cates | E-mail: [email protected] | Phone: 301-829-9660
Women’s networking group provides resources for women business owners (as published in the Mt. Airy Messenger) By J.A. BURKE . Messenger Staff Sheri Cates and Robin Cooney founded Mount Airy Women in Motion in 2004, a networking group of “Women business owners helping women business owners advance, encourage and grow their businesses,” said Cooney. Sheri Cates who has owned a State Farm Insurance business in town for 32 years, came up with the idea while she was participating as a business owner at a business fair at the senior center in Mt. Airy in 2004. She observed that most of the people at the booths were women. She took time to walk around and speak with each one to see if they were interested in a networking group to help women business owners. By the end of the fair, people were telling others there is a women’s business group in town, Cates said. Cates’ family had been in the insurance business with State Farm in Wheeling, W. Va. where she grew up. Her father, brother and other relatives were agents. When she moved to Maryland, she contacted State Farm and they told that she could have the Mt. Airy office but there were no customers and she would have to start from scratch. For 32 years Cates has built a solid business, and since 2004 when she formed the Mt. Airy Women in Motion networking group, she has been giving back to the community for treating her so well and doesn’t ask for anything in return. Cooney is a regional vice president with Arbonne, has been with the skin care and nutritional products company for 13 years, and just returned from a convention in Las Vegas. Cooney said their products are all natural, and they have recently launched a skin care line for men. She grew up in Clarksville in Howard County and has lived in Mt. Airy for the last 11 years. The operating philosophy of the group is to help other women succeed and grow their businesses. Cates said o the 100 members, about 40 percent are home based businesses, 40 percent are professionals and 20 percent are retail. Cooney and Cates are the force behind the organization, devoting time and talent to make sure other women succeed. Cates said members do not pay any dues and she often takes money out of her own pocket to buy gifts for speakers at their monthly meetings. This is just another way she gives back to the community. Women in Motion is also a proponent for fundraising causes. They are a major fundraising organization for the American Cancer Society and raised over $6,000 last year from a couple of events. One of those was a unique “Butter Aerobics” event held at the Farmers’ Market in June which raised $1,000. She said when participants were finished, they were able to take home the butter they made while exercising. The group is also a sponsor of the November Food Drive to benefit the Mt. Airy Net. One of their members, Linda Koonz, branch manager at the M&T Bank in the Twin Arch Shopping Center, has been generous by providing meeting space in the board room on the last Friday of each month from 8 a.m. to 9:15 a.m. for the members. Cates said that it is this kind of cooperation among members that makes the organization successful. Cooney and Cates agree that what they like best about the work they do is the networking, making connections with other business owners and developing great relationships that have an impact on their business and lives. Cates readily admits one of the challenges they face is to continually keep the meetings fresh with new dynamic speakers who can add value for the members. For more information on becoming a member, contact Sheri Cates at 301-829-9660 or Robin Cooney at 301-471-1852. This article was published in the Mt. Airy Messenger on July 20, 2016 and is on Page 2 and Page 14. Join the Mount Airy Women in Motion on Wednesday, June 8 at 6 pm for this season's Feel the Churn Butter Aerobics to benefit the Central Maryland Making Strides Against Breast Cancer at Mount Airy Main Street Farmers' Market, 3 North Main Street in Mount Airy, Maryland. Come "Feel the Churn" while you get your work out, burn the fat, and make butter to the beat of the music with an aerobics instructor to make your own butter to take home to benefit and warm-up for the upcoming Central Maryland Making Strides Against Breast Cancer!
To register and to make a donation, please visit http://main.acsevents.org/goto/womeninmotion *In the event of rain, Feel the Churn will be held at Health Unlimited in Mount Airy. **Feel the Churn Butter Aerobics originated as a Temple University program. An adaptation of the first Temple University's Feel the Churn Butter Aerobics has quickly become a well-attended event hosted by the Making Strides Against Breast Cancer Flagship sponsor! Both the Mount Airy Women in Motion Feel the Churn Butter Aerobics and the Central Maryland Making Strides Against Breast Cancer are American Cancer Society events. Please remember to Buy Local & Eat Fresh at the Mount Airy Main Street Farmers’ Market, Every Wednesday, 3-7 pm, June 1- September 7, 2016! The Heavy Whipping (Butter) Cream is produced by some Lovely, Local Cows and provided by the Frederick-based Dairy Maid Dairy! About Mount Airy Women in Motion: The Mount Airy Women in Motion are women business owners helping women business owners, advance, encourage and grow their businesses. We are group of Women Business Owners in the Mount Airy and surrounding areas networking together to help each other grow their businesses. We meet at the M&T Bank in Mt. Airy on the last Friday each month, 8:00 - 9:15 am, to network - share ideas and network or hear from different trainers and key note speakers. To learn more, please visit MountAiryWomenInMotionNews.weebly.com. Event Contact: Sheri Cates | E-mail: [email protected] | Phone: 301-829-9660
"We're a group of women business owners hailing from Greater Mount Airy, MD - the local four-county region," said Robin Cooney who along with Sheri Cates, founded Mount Airy Women in Motion in 2004. "Women in Motion is a networking group of women business owners helping other women business owners advance, encourage and grow their businesses." The January 29th meeting will be both a information sharing and networking meeting. Women in Motion member Alice Settle-Raskin will make a presentation about the group's new website, MountAiryWomeninMotionNews.Weebly.com. "The website was built to create a buzz around the Women in Motion, to spread the news about what this dynamic community of women is doing," said Alice Settle-Raskin, a public relations professional with more than 15 years experience spreading the news. "Through using the website as a tool to publicize and to promote the members and their businesses, it will add a huge breadth of synergy and the energy to keep our momentum going!" The Mount Airy Women in Motion will meet at the M&T Bank in the Twin Arch Shopping Center in Mount Airy the last Friday each month, 8:00 - 9:15 am, on the following dates:
*Please note that if Carroll County Public Schools are closed or delayed due to inclement weather, the scheduled meeting will be cancelled. To become a member of the Mount Airy Women in Motion and to attend the meetings, please contact Robin Cooney at [email protected]. Breathing Space stress reduction coach and certified biofeedback specialist Montgomery Young was the guest speaker at the Nov. 20 meeting. Young has been an annual guest speaker at the November Mount Airy Women in Motion meetings where he gives the members a chance to clear their minds before the holidays through a stress-relieving presentation. Pictured are Montgomery Young flanked by Mount Airy Women in Motion's founding members, Robin Cooney (left) and Sheri Cates, right. Click here to download high resolution photo. About Mount Airy Women in Motion: The Mount Airy Women in Motion are women business owners helping women business owners, advance, encourage and grow their businesses. We are group of Women Business Owners in the Mount Airy and surrounding areas networking together to help each other grow their businesses. We meet at the M&T Bank in Mt. Airy on the last Friday each month, 8:00 - 9:15 am, to network - share ideas and network or hear from different trainers and key note speakers. To learn more, please visit MountAiryWomenInMotionNews.weebly.com.
Mount Airy, MD - The Mount Airy Women in Motion - a community of local business women - keep the giving spirit alive during the holiday season in many ways; especially through its membership's annual food drive for the Mount Airy Net. "We believe in paying it forward," said Sheri Cates Founder and President of the Mount Airy Women in Motion. "Every member of our community is important to us, to their loved ones. We, as a community, should help those in need." It's not just a one-time donation for the Mount Airy Women in Motion. The group has been collecting nonperishable food items and other essentials to give to the Mount Airy Net during the holiday season for several years. "It's our way of saying thanks to the community that supports us," said Mount Airy Women in Motion member Robin Cooney. "We recognize that there are many in the four-county community who are in less fortunate circumstances than us and who need support all year long ." The Mount Airy Women in Motion encourages others to participate through paying it forward all year long through the Mount Airy Net. Keep the spirit of giving alive and help all in the Greater Mount Airy community thrive. About the Mount Airy Net: The Mount Airy Net is a non-profit organization serving the needs of the people throughout the four-county region surrounding Mount Airy, MD. The "Net" can provide support and emergency assistance such as Food, Prescriptions, Housing, Electric Bills, Clothing, School Supplies, Heating and Oil. The Net also encourages its clients to work out permanent solutions to their needs by referring them to other organizations and agencies for additional help, such as support groups, job training and health transportation. To learn more about the Mount Airy Net, its hours of operation, how you can be involved and/or donate to the Mount Airy Net, please visit its website, mountairynet.weebly.com or dial 301-829-0472.
About Mount Airy Women in Motion: The Mount Airy Women in Motion are women business owners helping women business owners, advance, encourage and grow their businesses. We are group of Women Business Owners in the Mount Airy and surrounding areas networking together to help each other grow their businesses. We meet at the M&T Bank in Mt. Airy on the last Friday each month, 8:00 - 9:15 am, to network - share ideas and network or hear from different trainers and key note speakers. To learn more, please visit MountAiryWomenInMotionNews.weebly.com. Media Contact: Sheri Cates | E-mail: [email protected] | Phone: 301-829-9660 Check Presentation: The Mount Airy Women in Motion presented a check to American Cancer Society Making Strides Against Breast Cancer for $6,353, surpassing the group's annual fundraising goal of $5,000! Representing the Mount Airy Women in Motion, Robin Cooney and Sheri Cates (Center), present a check Mount Airy Making Strides Against Breast Cancer Committee members, Mary Ford-Naill (Left) and Linda M Gourley (Right). Also included in the photo are: Amy Castle-Rogers, Jean Wright, Lisa Segerdahl Trail, Karen Giese, Kelly Maloney Frager, Angie Frear, Kim Wilson, Alice Settle-Raskin, Marsha Gibney, Laurie Friedman Dilks, Ellie Bonde and Julie Dixon Gensch. (High Resolution Photo Courtesy of the Mount Airy Women in Motion ) Mount Airy, Maryland - Making Strides Against Breast Cancer flagship sponsor - Mount Airy Women in Motion - presented a $6,353 to the American Cancer Society at their November meeting, surpassing the group's annual fundraising goal of $5,000! "We are just in awe of all of the support we've gotten this year," said Sheri Cates, Founder, Mount Airy Women in Motion, whose networking group has been a flagship sponsor of the Mount Airy Making Strides for Breast Cancer since 2011. The group of women business owners from the Greater Mount Airy, Maryland region aimed high this year with a few innovative fund raising events, such as two Feel the Churn Butter Aerobics events and a raffled basket full of gifts contributed from its many members. In addition to the many individuals who made the fundraising effort possible, major donors include: Walmart, Southern States, South Mountain Creamery, Dairy Maid Dairy, Planet Fitness, Blossom & Basket Boutique, Ace Hardware and Twin Arch Self Storage. About Mount Airy Women in Motion: The Mount Airy Women in Motion are women business owners helping women business owners, advance, encourage and grow their businesses. We are group of Women Business Owners in the Mount Airy and surrounding areas networking together to help each other grow their businesses. We meet at the M&T Bank in Mt. Airy on the last Friday each month, 8:00 - 9:15 am, to network - share ideas and network or hear from different trainers and key note speakers. To learn more, please visit MountAiryWomenInMotionNews.weebly.com. Media Contact: Sheri Cates | E-mail: [email protected] | Phone: 301-829-9660 Related: See post coverage: "Women in Motion raise more than $6K for cancer," Frederick News Post, pg. A-11, Jan. 8, 2016
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