Big Brothers Big Sisters is pleased to partner with North East Business Association once again to host their Annual Winter Party! Mark your calendars for Friday, January 27th, 2012! BBBS & NEBA will be offering FREE open skate & skate rental from 5:45pm - 7:45 pm at the Janesville Ice Arena. This party is open to all youth (matched & waiting), siblings, families and volunteers throughout Rock, Walworth & Jefferson Counties. Cookies and cider will be available during open skate for BBBS participants. Please RSVP by calling 888-904-KIDS or emailing bbbsjolynn@hotmail.com with the total number of attendees in your party. We hope you'll join us as we celebrate the positive effects of youth mentoring during January, National Mentoring Month!






Big Big Brothers Big Sisters and the Stinebrink's Piggly Wiggly stores of Delavan, Lake Geneva & Kenosha partnered for their 19th Annual Golf For Kids playday on July 14th at Evergreen Golf Club in Elkhorn. 2011 was another record breaking year with 216 golfers participating and raising over $33,000 for the Big Brothers Big Sisters' youth mentoring programs!

A special thank you to Mark Stinebrink, owner of the Piggly Wiggly stores for his support of youth mentoring in Walworth County! Thank you to also to the golfers, sponsors & donors which include: Affordable Leasing & Distributing, Badger Inventory Service, Badger Liquor, Baker Tilly, Beechwood Sales & Services, Blue Bunny, Brown Forman/Wirtz Beverage, Capitol Husting, Cedar Crest Ice Cream, Chicago Baking Company, CJW Inc, Coca Cola Refreshments, Community Bank CBD, CSI Media, CW Enterprise Electric, Dean Foods, Del Monte Foods/Advantage Sales & Marketing, Dierks Waukesha, Dr. Pepper Snapple Group, Frito Lay, General Beverage, Giraffe Electric II, Home Run Inn Pizza/Power Play Distributors, Hostess Brands/Interstate, Joe's Foods, Johnson Brothers, JW Hyndman, KeHe Distributors, Hodgson Mill, LaPreferida, Klements Sausage, Kolpien & Kjome Attorney's at Law, Lake Geneva Jaycees, Lakeland Marketing, Lake Geneva Chiropractic, M&I A Part of BMO Financial Group, Malt O Meal, Metso Paper, Miller Coors, Old Wisconsin Sausage, Orv's Pizza, Palermo's Pizza, Pan O Gold Baking Company, Patrick Cudahy, Pepsi Beverages Company, Piggly Wiggly Midwest, Professional Supply, Geneva Marketing, Rote Oil Ltd, Schoep's Ice Cream, Security Insurance Services, Southern WI News, Sperino's Little Italy, Alder Group of Delavan, Talmer Bank & Trust, Avalon Property, Kunes Country, Bernatello's Pizza/Bellatoria Pizza, Electro-Kold, Watertown Piggly Wiggly store, The Farrell Family, Evergreen Golf Course & LaPari Foods.






Bowl for Kids' Sake was held on Saturday, April 9th, at Rock River Lanes in Fort Atkinson. Thank you to all who particpated and helped raise over $12,000 for youth mentoring in Jefferson County!! A special thank you to some of our key sponsors: Manpower, Serv Pro of Jefferson County, Fort Atkinson Junior Women's Club, Kohl's stores of Johnson Creek and Janesville, JM Carpets, Ball Corporation, Bank of Lake Mills, Lakeland Farms, Lake Mills Optimist Club and the Jefferson Optimist Club.

Pledge winners include:

• Top Youth Pledge Winner ~ Little Brother Christopher
• Top Adult Pledge Winner ~ Big Brother Mike Gosenheimer (and board member) who raised over $1,500!
• Top Match Pledge Winner ~ Little Brother Christoper and Big Brother Tom
• Top Team Pledge Winner ~ Manpower, who raised over $3,200!
• Team Community Spirit Award ~ JM Carpets for sponsoring 2 teams in Fort Atkinson

Pictures of the event are posted here.



Big Brothers Big Sisters partnered with the Hog Cabin Saloon for their 7th Annual 2011 Hog Hula fundraiser on Memorial Day. Beautiful weather, a sold out volleyball tournament and great bands contributed to the event raising almost $11,000 for youth mentoring in southern Wisconsin.

Thank you to American Family Insurance, the Event Sponsor, for supporting youth mentoring in the stateline and Rock County areas! Additional sponsors include Hormel Foods, Avid Pallet Services, Brabazon Title Company, Alliant Energy, Christofferson Moving & Storage and Bud Weiser Motors. Many additional local businesses contributed to donations for the silent auction ~ thank you!!

Winners of the raffle were announced:

• Grand Prize of $1,000: John Kittleson


• 2nd Place of $250: Michael Kennan


• 3rd Place of $100: Mike Lidbury


• Early Bird Raffle: Don Jensen

Big Brothers Big Sisters hosted their 7th Annual Golf For Kids outing at Koshkonong Mounds on Thursday, September 15th. With the help from some great local businesses and community support, this annual event raised $5,000 for the youth mentoring programs in Jefferson County!

Thank you to the following golfer team participants for their generosity: Badger Press, Stinebrink's Piggly Wiggly, Hallman Lindsay Paints, American Awards & Promotions, Ball Corporation, Plas-Tech Engineering Inc, Manpower, Valero Renewables, Patch Products, Serv Pro of Jefferson and Wegner CPA's.

Thank you also to the following Hole Sponsors for their commitment to Big Brother Big Sisters and youth mentoring: John's Disposal Service, Terra Staffing, BMO Harris Bank, PremierBank, Gophers at the Caddy Shack, Jefferson Veterinary Clinic and Rhyme.

Congratulations to the Stinebrink's Piggly Wiggly Team for winning the Team Award at 12 under! Congrats also to Jason Fiege for winning the 50/50 Cash Raffle and to Ryan Buswell with American Awards and Promotions for winning the Grand Prize with a certificate to the Geneva Inn! Thank you to everyone involved for making the annual Golf For Kids day a great event!

Check us out on Facebook to view some great team pictures and additional event pictures!