Fall Women’s Expo winners

Congratulations to (from left to right) Karen Lond, Della Turk, and Cindy Briskie – our 2010 Fall Women’s Expo jewelry winners, thanks to Gold Crown Jewelers.

Karen Lond, our first place winner, won a 1/2 karat diamond necklace. Karen takes a day for her and her friends at the expo, making it a girl’s day out, she says.

Della Turk won the second prize: a 10 karat gold bracelet with diamond accents. Getting to the expo early is Della’s strategy, especially to get a good parking spot.

Cindy Briskie won our third-place sterline silver cubic zirconia ring. Cindy takes her out-of-town sisters to the expo to enjoy the day.

“We jump on the shuttle bus,” she says. “It’s much easier.”

Congratulations to all three winners, and thanks to Gold Crown Jewelers for providing our Women’s Expo prizes. Look for your chance to win at our Spring Women’s Expo, coming March 12, 2011.

Check out all the pictures from this fall’s expo at our Flickr gallery.

Women’s Expo ideas needed

We’re brainstorming here at American 1 (you can probably smell the smoke where you’re at) on what type of presentation we could offer at the Women’s Expo this fall in the auditorium at Parkside that women would want to see. Something educational, but fun. Something relevant to our community/residents that would be beneficial. A hot topic that’s not too controversial.

And we’re not talking about businesses pitching their product or ideas and trying to earn more customers. We want to learn something, or grow in some way.

How we can add to our Women’s Expo events and attract more guests as well? If you have an idea of something that you or maybe a female friend or family member would be interested in learning about, let us know in the comments below.

Spring Women’s Expo 2010 jewelery winners

Congratulations to Kay Linden, Tricia Commet, and Laura Boothe (above) – our Gold Crown Jewelers grand prize winners from the Spring Women’s Expo.

Kay Linden, our first-place winner, says she never wins anything.

“I didn’t even glance at the jewelry at the Gold Crown Jewelers booth,” she says. “I thought, ‘Why bother?'”

But this year, she won twice: our prize, and a free massage from Dr. Brad Double’s office. Kay picked the silver necklace with mother of pearl colored pendant.

Tricia Commet says this was her first Women’s Expo. She almost didn’t come because she was sick, but now she’s glad she did.

“I loved the expo,” Tricia says. “There’s lots of good information.”

Tricia picked the silver bracelet with purple cubic zirconium stone.

Laura Boothe is a regular at our Women’s Expos. For Laura, it’s a family affair: she meets her daughter, granddaughter, and sister at the event.

“It’s all very interesting,” she says, “and we enjoy doing it together.”

Laura picked the 14k gold earrings with blue topaz stones.

Many thanks to Gold Crown Jewelers for providing our grand prizes during our Women’s Expo. And congratulations to the winners.

Look for more information about our Fall Women’s Expo, taking place October 2.

Spring Women’s Expo pictures posted

Our 2010 Spring Women’s Expo was huge. About 2,000 women huge.

Check out pictures from the event over at our Flickr photo album, and see past expo pics at our gallery.

Spring Women’s Expo this weekend

If you live in Jackson, you’ve probably seen our new Spring Women’s Expo billboards around town.

That means, of course, that it’s almost here! Check out our Women’s Expo page for the full details on Saturday’s event.

Fall Women’s Expo jewelry winners

Congratulations to the three lucky women who won Gold Crown Jewelers’ jewelry giveaway at our Fall Women’s Expo.

Amanda Nastally, above, was our first prize winner. She opted for Gold Crown Jewelers’ heart pendant necklace.

The 2009 fall expo was Amanda’s first. She was surprised at the variety of vendors and seeing all that was there.

“I liked it,” she said. “I’ll definitely come back.”

Andrea Wint was our second prize winner. Andrea picked the sterling silver ring with marcasite and amethyst.

She’s been to two women’s expos – March’s spring expo was her first.

“Now I’m hooked,” Andrea said. “It’s awesome.”

Justina Kukulka was our third prize winner. Justine earned the 14K gold two-tone earings.

Like Amanda, this fall’s event was Justina’s first women’s expo, and she enjoyed the hands-on activities.

Congratulations to all the women. For more photos from this fall’s event, head to our Flickr photo gallery. Look for more opportunities to win prizes at our Spring Women’s Expo, coming Saturday, March 13, 2010.

American 1 Fall Women’s Expo guide

Thinking about heading to American 1’s Fall Women’s Expo this weekend?

If you didn’t catch the Jackson Citizen Patriot’s Uniquely You magazine with our special Women’s Expo insert, you can download it here.

Spring Women’s Expo 2009 winners

We’re proud to announce the three winner’s of the Gold Crown Jewelers prize drawing from our Spring Women’s Expo, as well as our two other prize winners.

First prize, a topaz pendant on a 14k gold rope chain, goes to Theresa Gollakner from Jackson (above). Theresa has been to many American 1 Women’s Expos, and was amazed to hear our phone call telling her she was the winner.

“I was glad I was sitting down,” she said.

The best part? We gave her Gold Crown’s prize on her birthday.



Next up are Cindy Jane Vass, our third prize winner (left), and Judy Goodall (right), our second prize winner.

Cindy won a pair of amethyst earrings. This expo was Cindy’s first. Her mom, who recently moved back to Michigan from Florida, told Cindy about our expo – and they came together.

Judy won a 10k gold fashion ring. Judy likes to take her sister to our Spring Women’s Expo because it falls right around her sister’s birthday.



Ashley Erwin from Concord (above) won our $200 shopping spree. Ashley won just by entering her name into our drawing.



Nancy Fowler (above) won our $100 gas card drawing by riding the shuttle bus to the expo.

Nancy came to the expo to shop, and spent four hours browsing through the vendors.

Congratulations to all our prize winners. Check out more photos on our Flickr page.

An award-winning credit union

American 1’s board of directors was on-hand to accept the Jackson Citizen Patriot’s “Corporate Citizen of the Year” award last week at a banquet held by the newspaper.

We also learned that our Women’s Expo won a CUNA Diamond Merit award. It seems we’re really good at getting the word out about the expo, and we were recognized for it by a national credit union association.

We couldn’t do any of this without our supportive members, of course, so we really have you to thank.

Prize winners from the Fall Women’s Expo

We had quite a few big winners from our most recent Fall Women’s Expo, so we’re going to mention them all in this blog post.




First up in Kathleen K. (above), our $100 gas card winner. Kathleen was eligible to win because she rode our new shuttle bus system. Kathleen parked at Knight’s Steakhouse on Horton and Ferguson Rd. and rode the shuttle to the expo. “I would do it again, definitely,” she said.




Carmen W. was our $150 Shopping Spree winner. Carmen earned $150 worth of AmEx gift cards she can use to go shopping. Carmen has been attending American 1’s womens expos for years now. “We used to go when it was over at the fairgrounds,” she told me.




Next up are two of our Gold Crown Jewelers jewelry winners, Millie M. (left) and Elaine S. (right), with Paolo from GCJ.




Millie won the above ring from Gold Crown Jewelers. She said she couldn’t believe she won when we called.

“Out of 1,500 people there, who thinks they’re going to win?” she said.




Elaine (above) drove in from Grass Lake to attend her first Women’s Expo. She’ll definitely come to the spring event, she said.

“I really enjoyed my 10 minute massage,” Elaine said. She won the above gold necklace.




Martha M. (above) of Hudson was the ruby necklace winner. This was Martha’s first expo, too, and she loved how friendly all the vendors were.

“They had lots of things to offer,” she said.

Lots of congratulations to our winners, and many thanks to Gold Crown Jewelers for providing three fantastic prizes. Look for more great prizes from Paolo and the gang at our Spring Women’s Expo, coming to you Saturday, March 14.