Athena Activities and Meetings

• Collection of the following items for our various charities: individual use toiletry items, school supplies, shower caps, new toys, new and used educational and children's/young adult books.

  Beneficiaries include Embry Rucker Homeless Shelter, Fairfax County Family Services (foster kids), Burn Center in Baltimore, Western Fairfax Christian Ministries (kids books and food), Toys for Tots, Our Neighbor's Child, Fairfax Hospital Education Center

• We have several informally arranged crafting gatherings through the year to prepare for the December craft fair (and if we don't do a craft fair in a particular year, we can always stock up on items for the next one!). Participants do not need to be crafters and there are things to do for people of all levels.

• Members who wish to pursue other charity work are encouraged to do so. Some people give intact shopping bags to Clock Tower Thrift Shop (benefits NVA family services), new clothes to foster kids, books for libraries, food for the animal shelters, money to various charities including animal shelters, breast cancer awareness, etc.

• We operate on the principle that in order to achieve the vision of a world without hunger or want as depicted in Star Trek, we better start fixing up this planet now.

• Happy New Year!

• Galaxy Diner gathering

• Galaxy Diner

• Individual size toiletry items for the Embry Rucker Community Shelter due
• Watch for crafting, biking, and movie outing events.
• 20 April 2008: Sterling Street Fair on Enterprise Street in Sterling. Setup 10AM-11:45AM, fair from 12-4PM. Will have a table to benefit the Julien Fleming Memorial Fund and 10% of the proceeds will go to the charity supported by the fair.
• 26 April 2008: Picnic at Bull Run starting at 3:30PM, getting together with the local Star Trek Meetup group. Details here and RSVP with Tom Donnelly (which one can do through the website).

• 4 May 2008, Concert at Kena Temple, Fairfax with theCity of Fairfax Band. Tickets are $13 adult, $7 senior, under 18 are FREE!

• watch for bike rides and other fun spring-time events
• TBD

• Friday-Sunday, July 11--13, 2008 Shore Leave science fiction convention, Hunt Valley Marriott, Hunt Valley, MD. Includes charity fundraisers for the Julien Fleming Memorial Fund and other worthy causes.

• School supplies for foster kids due
• TBD

• TBD

• Watch for crafting sessions
• Saturday, October ?? at 8PM Fairfax HS City of Fairfax Band concert. Tickets $13 adult/$7 sr/student.
• Halloween party place and time TBD.

• Toys for Tots/Our Neighbors Child Drive

• Saturday, December xx: Craft Show at Belvedere Elementary. Setup begins at 7AM, show runs 9AM-4PM. Proceeds from our booth benefit the Julien Fleming Memorial Fund.
• Saturday, December xx: Christmas in Fairfax 7PM Fairfax HS City of Fairfax Band's annual holiday celebation. Due to the popularity of this event, tickets are required even though it is a free concert. Looking for volunteers to assist with crowd control for the concert.

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Community Service

Some of our recent projects:

• Annual sales of craft goods and auctions at area conventions bring in approximately $500-$600 annual for our main charity: Julien Fleming Memorial Fund. The fund began in 2001 after fundraising efforts finished paying for Julien Fleming's funeral expenses and remaining bills ($6000 was raised between his death on 11/29/2000 and 8/2001). In addition, through the generosity of the science fiction community, an additional $2000 was raised to begin the Julien Fleming Memorial Fund. The first recipient family received a $500 grant in December of that year.

• Annual Craft Shows at typically raise about $200 for our charities. Charities supported include the Julien Fleming Memorial Fund, Challenger Center, and the Shifflett family. The fundraising done in 2001 for the Shifflett family brought in closer to $500.

  Kim Shifflett (17 years old in 2001) is a member at Centreville United Methodist Church and suffered a life-threatening allergic reaction that left her in a vegetative state. Expenses for her care (things not normally covered by insurance) were mounting. With charity funds being diverted to September 11 efforts, smaller charities like this were forgotten and we attempted to fill the void.

• Office Supplies were given to HART, a non-profit, no-kill animal adoption agency in the area. So much of their money was spent on pet food and vet bills for the animals in their care that they couldn't even buy pens!

• Helping out Fairfax Hospital's Education Center with collecting items to get them started.

• Raised $4900 for the Julien Fleming Fund during the summer of 1999 through auctioning items at Shore Leave, Dominion staged kidnappings, and other unusual ways of fundraising. Total fundraising for the year for Julien was $6000.

• Toys for Tots drive in conjunction with Star Trek Insurrection movie promotional and the Star Trek Nemesis movie promotional.

• Bat'leh auction: a crewmember made a carved wooden bat'leh which was auctioned by Robert O'Reilly (a.k.a. Gowron) at Farpoint (11/14) and went for $205. Half of the proceeds went to the Julien Fleming Fund and the other half went to Farpoint's charities.

• Wilma Duckling Charity Raffle: a duck dressed as Wilma Dearing, autographed by Erin Gray (a.k.a. Wilma Dearing on Buck Rogers) was raffled on 9/15/98 and won by Blair Learn. $211 was raised and split between to the Julien Fleming Fund and the Challenger Center. Check out our duck page for details.

• Relay for Life, May 30-31, 1998 at Potomac Falls High School. We raised over $1500 for the American Cancer Society and attempted to assimilate the campgrounds. Pictures!!

• Raising money for various charities (Challenger Center, Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation, TWA Flight 800 funds, selling Entertainment books and selling craft items.

• Raising money for the Julien Fleming Fund, including working at a benefit show to help raise money for the child's medical expenses. This is a major, ongoing part of our community service.

• Drives to collect school supplies and clothes for children in Fairfax and Prince William counties who need them. This is another ongoing part of our community service.

• Drives to collect canned goods and individual use toiletries for area food kitchens and homeless shelters. We continue this work to this day.

• In the past, we supported the "Overseas Coupon Project" which helped our servicemen and servicewomen overseas make ends meet by providing them with manufacturer coupons that they could use at the on-base commissary. In 1997, we donated $16,000 in coupons. In 1998, we sent $13,792.54 and in 1999, we sent over $20,500 in coupons to our adopted Navy base in Atsugi, Japan. We no longer participate in this project.

• Helping out and donating items for auction at conventions that have raised money for Make a Wish (Shore Leave), Easter Seals (Novacon), and Habitat for Humanity (SciFi Dreamin').

• Promoting reading by giving away books (when we can!!) and helping the local library with events such as Centreville's Murder Mystery activity.

• Star Trek: First Contact promotional at Centreville Multiplex on Route 28 on November 23, 1996. And we have pictures!!

• UPN Channel 20 July 4 Parade (2 years in a row). 1997 parade pictures.

• MDA Telethon Labor Day Weekend 1995--1997.

Other Activities

• Fun, educational trips to Goddard Space Center, Suitland Aircraft and Spacecraft Restoration Center, Maryland Science Center, Smithsonian Air and Space Museum, Challenger Center
• Trek discussions
• Working on ship design
• Building ships
• Movie nights
• Murder Mystery dinners
• Winter Holiday Trek Lyrics Contest
• Writing for our newsletter, The Wisdom of the Owl.
• Lasertag (the Official security training exercise!!)
• Movie promotionals
• Crafting and costuming
• Pool parties, holiday parties, cookouts
• Theater outings such as Othello at the Shakespeare Theater and other events like seeing Weird Al at Warner Theater
• Other outings like going to Six Flags

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