This Sunday’s Lil’ Kids & Big Rigs fundraiser promises to be fun for the whole family!  Junior League of Cedar Rapids has secured over 40 trucks and other vehicles for kids of all ages to explore, including dump trucks, semi trucks, race cars, a crane, an excavator, a garbage truck, a snowplow, a fire truck, military vehicles, and even a helicopter.  Other entertainment includes an appearance...

My greatest memory and accomplishment as a member of JLCR and the most fun I have had in a long time was all due to JLCR’s involvement in the Ladies Titan Tire Challenge. I was asked by League to serve as Volunteer Chair for the tournament. Initially I had it in my head that I would need to recruit about 200 volunteers to serve the various roles necessary to support the event. Well only a few weeks...

When a group of women formed the Junior League of Cedar Rapids in 1934, their opportunities in public life were relatively limited. Wife and mother were the jobs that women were made for — or so the thinking went. But those young women knew they had much to offer their communities in addition to their families. Seventy-five years after its formation, the Cedar Rapids league continues to make an indelible mark...