Men's Lingerie Contest

ALL proceeds go to benefit the COURTNEY BLOXOM FUND

PLEASE KEEP COURNTEY IN YOUR PRAYERS.

Courtney Bloxom Benefit Car Wash

CAR WASH

TO BENEFIT

COURTNEY BLOXOM

Saturday   July 23, 2011

9:00 AM   until   2:00 PM

Saxis Fire House

Saxis, Virginia

Food will be available

For more information contact: 

Tonya Beasley @ (757) 894-0652

Please continue with your prayers for Courtney and her family.  Her total recovery is  long but progress is  being made with your help through prayer.

Go to Prayers for Courtney Bloxom on facebook

Please Pray For Courtney

PLEASE keep Courtney Bloxom in your prayers. 

Courtney was taken from the nursing home, that she has been a patient  for some time,  to the ER at Shore Memorial yesterday afternoon.   Yesterday evening she was transported to the Children's Hospital of the King's Daughters.

Please send prayers and more prayers for her speedy recovery.

Prayers For Courtney Bloxom

Please remember to keep Courtney Bloxom and her family in your prayers.

Prayers For Courtney

Extra prayers are needed for Courtney Bloxom.  Courtney was taken to Shore Memorial Hospital a few hours ago with  severe stomach pains. 

Please keep Courtney and her family in your prayers.

Miss Hope Eastern Shore Pageant



Congratulations to all the winners in the Miss Hope Eastern Shore Pageant. From all the comments I have read not one contestant had a bad experience and I think the entire event left them with more than they had expected. I have read comment after comment about the event and have yet to hear one person find anything to disagree with. And I've been told that everyone had a blast.

The entire event was the idea of two young local women, the Pettine sisters. They have every reason to feel so very proud for what they have accomplished. Arranging and managing what they did was not an easy task and I would have been holding my breath the whole time! Giving so much of their time and energy for such a worthy cause should never be forgotten.

What is so wonderful to know is that most, if not all, of the participants know Courtney Bloxom. Some of them are Courtney's good friends. Some of them sit with Courtney in her room at the center helping to keep her motivated, trying to bring her back to wonderful self. Some know her very well simply by the facebook page Courtney's mother keeps.



Miss Hope ES contestant  Lennie Bowe
and Miss  Hope ES  Ashley Mapp



Regardless, these participants gave of their time to help someone in need.

Everyone, now matter what your task was in bringing this event together, needs to give themselves a big pat on the back.

Saturday nights pagaent raised over $7,000.00 for the Courtney Bloxom Fund. The contest included 35 participants and crowned 22 Princesses while a crowd of 475 watched. That's incredible.
　
But the Pettine sisters are finished yet .The fundraising continues. They set a goal of $19,000 for the Courtney Bloxom Fund and they intend to meet every bit of that commitment. Every penny raised for the pageant went towards the fund in an effort to purchase physical therapy equipment for Courtney. The professional photographer has pledged ten percent of his sales to go towards the cause. A CD is being made and 10% from the sales will be donated back.

Miss Hope Eastern Shore Teen Amy Wigglesworth with other
local queens.

So it seems every one came away with a good feeling. Strangers became friends forever. They are 'pageant sisters'. They are that for life simply because they gave unselfishly to a cause for a beautiful young lady that needs so much right now. And I can't help but feel that if this had been for anyone elsebesides Courtney, she would have been there participating herself.

**DVDs are available at Alan-Lynch Productions. The email is josh@alanlynchproductions.com  or 302-344-2977 . All checks need to be made out to Alan-Lynch Productions.   PLEASE BE SURE TO SEND: Name, Address, Email, Cell, and Home phone number for this order.  DVD's are $30 each.  10% will be donated back to the Courtney Bloxom Fund.**

And as always..........PLEASE CONTINUE TO PRAY FOR COURTNEY.

Pageant To Benefit Courtney Bloxom Is Just Days Away

This is going to be an exciting event with proceeds going to a worthy cause. Don't miss it. Get your tickets today.

Miss Hope Eastern Shore Pageant
Little Miss Hope Eastern Shore Princess Tea

(ages 3)

Saturday March 26, 2011

7:00 PM @ Pocomoke Community Center

1410 Market Street, Pocomoke City, MD.

Doors open at 6:15 PM

Tickets on sale at the door or in advance @ www.bringyourbling.net

Price: $15.00 Adults ~ $12.00 ages 10 and under

Silent Auction and 50/50

All proceeds will be donated to the Courtney Bloxom Fund to purchases special physical therapy equipment costing about $19,000.00 and with other expenses associated with Courtney's care.

Courtney, 2010 Arcadia High School graduate, was seriously injured May 23, 2010 in an auto accident. She remains hospitalized at Riverside Shore LifeCare in Parksley, Va. where she receives daily therapy and other medical care.

Please continue to pray for Courtney.

Miss Hope Eastern Shore Pageant

Tickets are going fast!

Order yours today at www.bringyourbling.net. Tickets already purchased may be picked up at the door the night of the pageant.

Saturday March 26, 2011

7:00 PM until 10:00 PM

1410 Market Street

Pocomoke City, Maryland

Pocomoke Community Center

100% of these proceeds go the Courtney Bloxom Fund.

Please continue to pray for Courtney. Your prayers are being heard and are deeply appreciated.

HYMN SING Sunday

HYMN SING

SUNDAY MARCH 13, 2011

FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH

31027 Depot Street

New Church, Virginia

6: 00 PM until 9:00 PM

FCB Praise Team and Greg Fentress leading off with praise and worship.

Singers for the evening: Brian and Monique Linton, Kindred Spirit, Cliff Jester, Earnie Ray Mears.

Refreshments will follow.

A love offering will be taken for Courtney Bloxom. Please plan to attend and bring a friend so that the family will know that the community cares and are praying so very hard for Courtney's recovery.

~BRING YOUR VOICE OF PRAISE~

For information: (757)824-0493

Please continue to pray for Courtney. She is making progress every day but recovery is slow. Your prayers do help and continue to be uplifting for the family.

Miss America 2010 To Attend Pageant Benefiting Courtney Bloxom

GREENBACKVILLE -- Sisters Sara and Emily Pettine wanted to help an Eastern Shore of Virginia car accident victim by holding a benefit pageant -- and they wanted the biggest draw possible.

So they contacted Miss America 2010, Caressa Cameron of Fredericksburg, Va., to see if she would attend. They hoped for the best but didn't expect it.

So when Cameron committed to attend the March benefit for Accomack County resident Courtney Bloxom and also waive her usual fee, Emily Pettine and her sister reacted like pageant winners.

"We started crying," she said.

Cameron will attend the inaugural Miss Hope Eastern Shore Pageant.

All proceeds go to the family of Bloxom, a graduate of Arcadia High School who was involved in a single-car crash last May. She suffered a severe brain injury that left her in a coma for six weeks, during which she missed her high school graduation.

Bloxom is still recovering and, last month, returned to Accomack County to continue her recuperation at Shore LifeCare, a long-term care facility in Parksley. She undergoes three hours of speech, occupational and physical therapy daily to recover basic skills.

The Pettine sisters, with the help of their mother, Maureen, started the company Bling, which will coordinate an annual benefit pageant on the Eastern Shore. Emily Pettine was Miss Teen Maryland 2009 and Teen Miss Delmarva 2011.

The Miss Hope Eastern Shore Pageant's goal is to raise enough money to buy Bloxom specialized physical therapy equipment costing about $19,000. Every year, the pageant will choose a new beneficiary.

"Everyone wants to help, and they don't know how," Emily Pettine said. "But just showing up at the pageant helps."

For contestants, the pageant will be comprised of an opening number that is not judged; a personal interview, consisting of 50 percent of the contestant's score; an onstage introduction, counting for 25 percent of the score; and evening gown session, with grading on grace, poise and confidence for the remaining 25 percent of the score.

There will be a silent auction of donated goods, including Vera Bradley merchandise, teeth whitening sessions and more. Businesses are donating the prizes, which include a photo shoot, hair and makeup at Vanity Hair Salon, dinner at Mallards in Onancock and limo service to these locations.

For the pageant, Bling is looking for ladies of all ages who are interested in community service and involvement. During her reign, the overall winner of Miss Hope Eastern Shore will participate in service-oriented events and mentor her younger sister queens and Little Miss Hope princesses.

Registration for the Miss Hope Pageant is $75 and payable in advance. However, if contestants refer a friend who registers, registration is $50. Age division spaces are limited.

Before the pageant begins, there will be a special crowning ceremony at 4 p.m. for all participants in the Little Miss Hope Eastern Shore Princess Tea. Girls ages 3-10 are encouraged to wear their prettiest party dresses and show off their natural beauty without makeup.

Little Miss Hope princesses will be crowned by the special guest queen and given an autographed photo of the guest queen. They will be given admission to the Miss Hope Eastern Shore Pageant, as well as an on-stage introduction during the pageant.

In addition, they will participate in holiday parades with their big sister queens and have the opportunity to join in volunteer service events throughout the year with their big sister queens. The registration fee to be a Little Miss Hope Eastern Shore Princess is $50.

www.delmarvanow.com

PARKSLEY -- Becky Bloxom's family is planning a quiet Christmas this year.

They already received one of the greatest gifts possible -- the chance to celebrate the holiday together -- after a Dec. 13 return to Virginia's Eastern Shore by their older daughter, Courtney, 19, who has been a patient at several hospitals after being seriously injured in a May 23 car accident.

After Bloxom's husband, William, gets home from his shift at Perdue Farms, the couple and their other two children will open gifts together at their Hallwood home on Christmas morning.

Then they will take Courtney's presents to Shore LifeCare at Parksley, where she is staying in a room filled with the typical trappings of a teenage girl's life -- her senior portrait and prom pictures, a menagerie of stuffed animals, music coming from a small CD player and a small glittering, rotating Christmas tree.

It is all crowded in a strange juxtaposition to the medical equipment more commonplace in a nursing home.

They might watch William's favorite Christmas movie, "A Christmas Story," and maybe have dinner later -- but the details don't matter.

"It's not important. Just being together, that's what's important," Bloxom said.

That night

On the night of May 23, Becky Bloxom had spoken on the telephone with her daughter not long before she received a second call, this one from Courtney's boyfriend.

It was the phone call no parent wants to get, saying Courtney had been in a bad accident while driving home from her boyfriend's house.

The Arcadia High School senior, whose activities included cheerleading, chorus and an after-school job at St. Paul's on the Shore day care, had attended Arcadia's prom the week before and was preparing for her high school graduation.

The only visible signs of injury from the crash were a cut on her pinkie and a black eye, but she was seriously wounded internally.

But Courtney suffered a severe brain injury in the single-vehicle accident and has since been treated at four facilities: Peninsula Regional Medical Center, Retreat Doctors' Hospital in Richmond, Cumberland Children's Hospital in New Kent, Va., and most recently, Shore LifeCare.

She was in a coma for about six weeks and during that time missed a major milestone in her life: her June 9 graduation from Arcadia High, where her sister, Ashlin, 16, accepted Courtney's advanced studies diploma in an emotional ceremony.

"It was a bittersweet day. Before the accident, we were preparing for graduation. The cap and gown were hanging up at our house," said her mother.

A move home

In the days since the accident, milestones are measured in very different ways, such as the ability to focus her eyes on an object or to make a sound.

"We were never told it would be short," Bloxom said of her daughter's progress. "The doctor's exact words were, 'It's going to take a long time.'

At Shore LifeCare, Courtney receives three hours daily of speech, occupational and physical therapy in an effort to recover skills. The move to the facility, although welcomed because it is close to home, did not come easily for her mother.

"It was a little scary because no one ever wants to put their child in a nursing home," she said, adding that the staff there have been "wonderful; they love her."

Bloxom went on, reflecting on another benefit of the move: "Traumatic brain injury is a long journey. I'm excited about bringing her home and letting the community be a part of it."

Bloxom took leave from her job with First Med to care for Courtney and has remained by her bedside six to eight hours a day in the seven months since the accident. Her husband has held down the fort at home, working at his job while trying to maintain a normal home life for Ashlin and the couple's 12-year-old son, Josh.

After emerging from the coma into what is considered a minimally conscious state, Courtney continues to show some signs of progress.

"We know she is seeing; we know she is hearing," said her mother.

The family is thankful for the hundreds of Shore residents who have helped since the accident.

"Our heartfelt thanks to the community for everything they've done," Bloxom said.

Courtney's classmates, friends and others have spearheaded many charity events -- including haircut-a-thons, car washes, a dance, a motorcycle poker run and the sale of bumper stickers and bracelets -- to help alleviate the financial strain that comes with long-term medical needs.

Churches around the Shore continue to pray for Courtney's recovery and more than 3,600 people have joined the Facebook site "Prayers for Courtney Bloxom," where her mother posts regular updates on her progress.

Becky Bloxom's greatest fear is that as time goes by the community will move on, even while Courtney continues her slow struggle for recovery.

"Our family's fear is she'll be forgotten. So come by and visit her; tell her to keep fighting," Bloxom said to all who have shown their support to the family.

And turning to Courtney, she says with a hug, "My dream of you walking across that stage -- I don't know what stage it is, but it's going to happen. You've got a lot to offer, a lot to share.

www.delmarvanow.com

So many of us have watched and read about the daily sactifices this Mother and this family has made. Courtney's road to recovery has not been an easy one for her nor her family and friends. I wish all of you in the Bloxom family a very Merry Christmas. Courtney is proof that wonderful things do happen with prayer and with the attitude to never give up.

Keep up the good work Courtney. A Merry Christmas to you. jmmb

Fundraiser Dance for Courtney Bloxom

Here's your chance to continue helping this young lady and her family.

Courtney Bloxom, a local teen and gradute of Arcadia High this past June but never got to attend her graduation. In May she was seriously injured in an auto accident and is still hospitalized and in a coma. While she is making wonderful progress daily more medical attention is needed.

Fundraiser Dance for the benefit of Courtney Bloxom

Moose Lodge in Belle Haven

September 4th, 2010 from 8:00 PM until midnight

Music by Karaoke Brian.

The price of admission is $10 per person.

There will also be a 50/50 raffle, tickets are $1 each, 6 for $5 or $10 for an arm length.

50% of the proceeds will go to Courtney Bloxom and 50% to the winner or the winner can donate the winnings back to Courtney.

Keep the tickets as there will be a door prize drawing throughout the night.

Come out and enjoy the fun and dance your heart out for a good cause.

Prayers are appreciated.

Cut-A-Thon TODAY!! Proceeds To Benefit Courtney Bloxom

Two hair cut-a-thons are being held today for a very special cause. All proceeds will be donated to the family of Courtney Bloxom. Courtney still remains in ICU in a coma from an auto accident in May. If you don't need a hair cut stop by and drop off a donation. Although Courtney continues to make progress in her recovery every day the process has been slow for her and the many family members and friends that love her and continue to pray for her every minute of the day.

Her journey back to being the healthly teenager she was just a few weeks ago will be long and costly. Please help in any way you can if only in prayer.

CUT-A-THON FUNDRAISER

STUDIO HELENE

Sunday June 13, 2010


8:00 AM until 12:00 PM



42 King Street


Onancock, Virginia
Haircuts $10.00/$15.00 (I read two prices)


Donations also accepted.

If a haircut suits for later in the day..........

CUT-A-THON AND BAKE SALE

HAIR ART SALON

Onley, Virginia (next to Food Lion)

Sunday June 13, 2010

12:00 PM until 4:00 PM

$10.00 per cut - no blow drying or styling

7 stylists available

While there enjoy the Bake Sale...

cakes, cookies, brownies, sodas, homemade iced tea, freshly squeezed lemonade

100% of the proceeds will help fund Courtney's recovery.

~~Show Your Support For Courtney Bloxom ~~

BAKE SALE @ PARKSLEY FEST

SATURDAY JUNE 5, 2010

BEGINNING AT 10:00 a.m.

LOCATION: PARKSLEY FESTIVAL

Proceeds will go to help her family with the expenses of her medical care. Courtney still remains in a coma and other critical injuries resulting from an automobile accident.

There will also be a few ribbons left for sale and the bracelets that everyone is wearing to show their support for Courtney.

Please show your support for Courtney if only in prayer. For more info and to see the outpouring of love being sent to Courtney and her family go to "Prayers for Courtney Bloxom" on Facebook.