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attention Youth. Youth IGNITE event set for February 17th at Mount Vernon United Methodist Church

Jeff Schmatt — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 06:11:59 +0000

Youth IGNITE is coming together for a special evening. A FREE Hawaiian Luau Pizza party before a FREE viewing of the movie “Soul Surfer”. The event will be held at the Mount Vernon United Methodist Church. Special musical Guest PARTY on 13th, prior to the movie. Donations and Volunteers who want to help with the event can contact me at 319-895-8776 or jeff@rubicon-photo.com

Happy New Year from Rubicon Photo

Jeff Schmatt — Sun, 01 Jan 2012 02:58:29 +0000

Just wanted to put up a quick post wishing all of you a Happy New Year, and wishing everyone to have

Peace, Prosperity, and Happiness in 2012.

A few sample photos from Santa’s visit to Rubicon Photo

Jeff Schmatt — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 15:53:00 +0000

We had a great day with Santa last week as he made a stop at our studio. Here are just a few sample photos from this special event. Thanks for visiting our blog and we wish you a very Merry Christmas! and a Prosperous New Year!

Santa Claus is coming to Rubicon Photo Sat Nov 19th

Jeff Schmatt — Mon, 07 Nov 2011 04:54:44 +0000

We have made special arrangements for Santa to visit our studio on Saturday November 19th from 9 am until 1 pm. We are booking private sessions with Santa every 10 minutes so please call today for your appointment 319-895-8776. Appointments are already going fast and I have just begun promotions.

We will have special portrait gift giving packages. So avoid the lines at the mall, or at company Christmas parties and we will help create a heirloom portrait not just a snap shot with your child and Saint Nick. Enjoy Hot Cocoa and cookies after your session too.

Mount Vernon Football Game Photos

Jeff Schmatt — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 21:41:38 +0000

Friday Night Lights! one of the things I love about living in a small town is Home Football Games! This year started out with an exciting game against the Marion Indians, who used to be my arch rivals when I attended Linn-Mar ( Class of 1984) so now living in Mustang territory the Indians are still foes at least on the game field,–still have lots of friends and great clients from Marion. This year is the 2nd annual Mustang Football Game action photo fundraising program. This program is a Win for Mustang Fans as families of players can get professional action photos that they would be extremely difficult to capture without our help, a Win for the Mustang Football program as we donate 10% of the sales back, and a WIN for me in that I know who is interested in getting photos of their student athlete, and I can focus my lens on them.

There is still time to get “vested” in the program you have until our 2nd home game on Sept 16th which is Homecoming game too. To get in the program you must buy 1 gift card for $50 by 9-16. Call us for the money back guarantee and other details. Plus with your gift card purchase you get 10% gift bonus to spend. Plus we honor your Mount Vernon Football Program card, making it very affordable to get actions of your sports star!

Here are a few highlight photos from the Marion Game! Great job Mustangs very proud of your first game!

you can go to our Online Gallery to enjoy or order your reprints of the game at this link Mt Vernon Vs Marion

Special Women’s Self-Defense Class offered this Sunday 7-31-11

Jeff Schmatt — Tue, 26 Jul 2011 04:30:12 +0000

While I am primarily a photographer one of my other passions is martial arts. Specifically I enjoy teaching Tai Chi, but also teaching others how to defend themselves. I believe I have some very simple self-defense moves that anyone can do to defend themselves. A few years ago I came across JustYellFire.com from seeing an report on Good Morning America. I was so impressed with the video young Dallas Jesup had created and physical strategies so much I went and did a certification process to teach women their techniques which should really be called self-preservation techniques more then self-defense. I encourage all high school or college bound women to attend this class. Thanks to my sponsors of Elliott’s Uptown Fitness

Iowa Physical Therapy

Transformation Fitness

their sponsorship helped me keep the class fee low as possible to help get this information out.
Due to the nature of the information presented at this class this class is for young women high school age and up. I do have a female instructor assisting me in this training Allison Scheer a member of the Transformation Fitness staff. Please call me for a reservation or if you have any questions about this class. It would be helpful if you attend to watch the JustYellFire.com free video you can watch/download online.

Next MV/L Youth IGNITE

Jeff Schmatt — Tue, 26 Jul 2011 04:05:36 +0000

Here is a flyer for our next Mount Vernon and Lisbon Youth IGNITE! Hope to see lots of area Youth to attend these fun evenings of fellowship and faith. All Youth welcome ages 12-19. Make sure to check out this weeks The Mount Vernon and Lisbon Sun for an article on what Youth IGNITE is about and the fun we have had together this summer. It is great to see the Youth of MV/L join together and create these events with the assistance of adults from a variety of area Churches!

Mount Vernon Lisbon Youth IGNITE 1st summer event June 15th

Jeff Schmatt — Sun, 05 Jun 2011 20:39:53 +0000

Just wanting to start getting the word out about the new group in Mount Vernon and Lisbon Iowa to give our area Youth some Good Choices for something fun to do this summer. Our first event is planned for June 15th at Community Bible Church (CBC) we have some fun group games in the works and some live music by area Youth. If you would like to get involved please send me an email or give me a call. The event is Free and ages are for youth going into 7th grade and just completed the 12th grade. We are looking for Youth to design our next event in July, and adult volunteers to help organize the events.call.

area Churches to present “To Save a Life” in Mount Vernon May 11, 2011

Jeff Schmatt — Sun, 01 May 2011 05:00:11 +0000

Hello my Blog Followers, just wanting to post about an event that I am helping organize in our community to help our Youth begin a dialogue about the problems they are facing. This movie is a great vehicle to open the lines of communication with it’s frank portrayal of the social issues teens face, from drugs, alcohol, sex and suicide. The hope of the movie is to get Teens to look for A Higher Purpose, and look at their relationship with God. Change a Life, Save a Life is one motto from this movie, and we hope by bringing these topics out into the open we can help our Youth stay vigilant to make GOoD Choices as one bad choice can wipe away all the previous good choices. We have had two recent tragedies in our community which was the catalyst for showing this movie, but with Proms and Graduation Parties right around the corner it is important to show this film for those reasons too. There is also a parent viewing planned the week prior to the Youth event. You can see info in the photo posters posted in this blog

Mount Vernon High School to perform “High School Musical”

Jeff Schmatt — Wed, 30 Mar 2011 04:25:38 +0000

It was nice to be asked again to help with the Mount Vernon High School Musical poster, and this year’s performance is Disney’s “High School Musical”. The challenge for this project was trying to get the whole cast seen in the poster, I think we did a good job getting this accomplished. While talking with Director Tom Stephens the idea of the cast autographing the posters came up so I took advantage of the extra photos we took of the cliques and made a back side to the poster for the cast to be able to autograph easier.

I am looking forward to seeing this production, they always do a great job with the musicals at Mount Vernon, and we have a bunch of talented young artists.