Next meeting Not Decided




Nobody had any ideas for July, so I don't know if we are meeting or not. We can always meet here, the gardens are pretty--but there wasn't much interest in that last year--people are busy with other things and on vacay and stuff, so I'm not sure what to do. If anyone has ideas, let's hear them. I want to head to Wavecrest sometime soon, so we can have a PIE day if anyone else wants to go along. Other than that I don't have any ideas. Let me know if anybody gets a brainwave.

Tuesday, October 5, 2010

Something very important

Hi everyone--in case you haven't seen this is your GCI newsletter, I am reproducing it here. If you agree that this cause is worthy, please support it by sending them a contribution or spreading the word by whatever way seems appropriate to you.
First off--here is a link if you want to send a contribution. My check will go out tomorrow.
http://www.ngccar.org/delawarememorialgardenproject.html

This is what this is about--I am quoting from the newsletter:
"The Delaware Federation of Garden Clubs has embarked on a project of constructing a Memorial Garden at the Air Force Base in Dover, Delaware. The Dover Air Force Base has the distinctive, heartbreaking task of receiving home the bodies of service personnel killed in the line of duty. Since lifting the ban on photographs of the flag-covered caskets, nearly 2000 relatives have come to Dover for the body transfers. In January, the base opened a much needed facility called the 'Center for the Families of the Fallen'. This building is used by the families when they arrive at the base from all over the nation to receive their loved ones. Although the inside of the building is well furnished, the outside desperately needs an enclosed garden area, screened from the road, to afford the family's privacy and peace. When this garden club saw the site, they knew it was a project they wanted to embrace. Because of the special requirements posed by the base, the DFCG decided to engage a prominent therapeutic Landscape Architect, Rodney Robinson, to design and develop a plan for construction of this garden. The garden clubs of Delaware and its members now need to raise the necessary 125,000 to cover the cost of this project. It is a daunting task and they are a small state with an organization that has never taken on a project of this magnitude. DFGC is trying to reach out to everyone to help meet their commitment of providing a Memorial Garden at the Dover Air Force Base for the 'Families of the Fallen'.

Once again--the link to contribute:
http://www.ngccar.org/delawarememorialgardenproject.html

HTTD.

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