 Cecilia
Diaz Beneke
started volunteering with us in 2005 as a class
garden helper in her daughter's classroom.
She is now the team leader at the Early
Childhood Center. |
 Trish
Hoge has volunteered with us since 2002.
She has and continues to serve in many
capacities. Formerly the team leader at the
Early Childhood and a board member she now
coordinates for her child's classroom and helps
with fundraisers as in this photo. |
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 Janet
Fahrenbruck-Lynch heads up our
special events
fund raising
team. Janet joined the garden program in
2004 and quickly became a key volunteer.
She is a member of our board of directors. |
 Katy Laage
is a Social Guide
with LADD.
Kate came to the gardens with Lizzie as members of the
Pick-a-Bouquet-Club then volunteered to pick bouquets to
take to local businesses each week. We need more
volunteers to pick and
deliver bouquets to share with community. |
Phyllis
Youmons began volunteering with us in exchange for compost for
her gardens. She teamed up with Pat Benton who was already
volunteers twice a week and they work on various projects
depending on what needs to be done in a given week. |
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Nancy Garfinkel
has been with Granny's Garden School since the program
began. She has and continues to serve in many
capacities, i.e. class garden coordinator, fundraising
and general garden helper. |
 Peggy
French is a retired school teacher. She started
volunteering with the program as a
garden coordinator and
is now a nature trail guide as well.
We have a 1/2 mile nature
trail in about six acres of woods in back of the schools. It has
been the site for three Eagle Scout projects. There are bridges, bird blinds
and a nice collection of trees. We are seeking
more volunteer trail guides. |
 Stephanie
Gebele started as a general garden volunteer in the spring of
2007. The second time she came she brought her mother,
Janet Grace and the two have been regular Tuesday afternoon
volunteers every since. In the summer they were joined by
Stephanie's daughter, Erika. They have worked on a variety of
activities in and out of the gardens. |
 Brownie
and Girl Scout Troops frequently us the gardens in their
ceremonies and do community service projects there.
Projects have included planting bulbs, trees and flowers,
mulching and composting. One group even built a learning
center. |
 Phyllis
Carroll first came to the gardens to photograph the flowers in
2005. Since then she has spent many hours working in the
gardens with Granny and helping with special events. She
crates note cards featuring photos taken in the gardens and
donates them to the program. We use them to thank our
supporters. |
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Administrative assistant
This is a great job for someone who wants to work from
home. You can assist with data entry, research,
writing letters and a multitude of behind the scenes
projects. |
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Graphic designer to help with the development of
promotional flyers.
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Sketch artists to develop a group of characters to
represent Granny's Gardens. |
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Someone to identify insects in our gardens and develop a
custom insect guide.
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Tool
manager - We have
shovels, wheelbarrows, garden trowels, scissors, hoses
and clippers that need seasonal maintenance and repairs.
The work can be done at your location
or our site.
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Pick
bouquets:
spend
a couple of hours a week picking and delivering bouquets
to locations such as the school library, fire station
and local businesses. |
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We have an extensive
website. We are seeking
assistance with webpage development and maintenance. |
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Writers
- We are
seeking a writer to write articles about
our volunteers
and our programs that will be published in the
PTA newsletter, our e-mail
newsletter
and other media outlets. |
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 Robert
Cisneros
started volunteering with us when he retired from the
railroad. He wanted a sunny spot to grow tomatoes.
In exchange for a garden spot, he does miscellaneous
projects around the gardens everything from staking
tomatoes to helping us with our groundhog problem. |
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