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Friends Of Jupiter Beach

Is Grateful To Joan Ross For Nearly 20 Years Of Service!

If you have volunteered at a Friends of Jupiter Beach (FJB) FJB has much more to thank Joan for than her baking. The dog ingredients, did all the baking, packed it all up, refrigerated it,
monthly cleanup in the past 15 years, then you’ve had the lover joined FJB in 2002 and ascended to the board of directors transported it all, and then set up to feed typically 100 to 200
pleasure of enjoying Joan Ross’s baked goods. A longtime in 2003. Joan steered the organization as board president from people. Then she would go back and do it all over again, all
leader and loyal supporter of Friends of Jupiter Beach, Joan is 2004 through 2012. She also served as ticketing chair for FJB’s because of her love for baking and her commitment to FJB.”
hanging up her whisk to enjoy retirement – a second time. But Food and Wine Festival from 2010 to 2014. Joan baked for every monthly cleanup until March 2020
Joan started baking for the when the pandemic put a temporary end to gatherings. With an
beach cleanups in 2005. Local average of eleven cleanups per year over a 15-year period, she
attorney Geoff Jones, board baked for 165 beach cleanups which equates to 25,000 breakfasts
president from 2012 to 2015, for hungry volunteers.
still serves on the board and had “Joan’s baking for the cleanups always made me feel like I
this to say about Joan’s service. was being welcomed into her home,” said Mark Holbert, current
“I do not know anyone who board member. Mark has always been in awe of the amount of
worked harder for FJB than Joan thought and care Joan used in preparing her baked goods for the
Ross. I sometimes think my job volunteers every month. So much so that he helped her compile
with the monthly cleanups is some of her favorite recipes into a cookbook so that she would
burdensome; loading tables, always be a part of our community. A Taste of the Friends of
equipment and cleanup supplies Jupiter Beach is available on Amazon for those who will miss
into the car and transporting Joan’s baking. Funds raised from the sale of this book go to help
them to and from the monthly support the mission of keeping Jupiter’s beaches clean and dog
cleanup, all of which gets done in friendly.
one morning. Joan’s preparation “Friends of Jupiter Beach is grateful not only for Joan’s
for the monthly breakfasts baking, but also her leadership and guidance over the last 19
started days and sometimes years,” says Karen Gray, FJB’s executive director. “She will be
weeks before the cleanups. She missed but we wish her a relaxing retirement with her family
planned the menus, bought the and her pups. She’s earned it.”
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