DECEMBER
2015
Garden Center Services
The View From My Chair A MESSAGE FROM OUR EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
Joey & Gerry
INSIDE THIS ISSUE THE VIEW FROM MY CHAIR Page 1 59TH FASHION SHOW Page 2 COMPUTERSHARE Page 3 AROUND GCS Page 4
On behalf of the Garden Center Services’ Board of Directors, our program participants, our staff, Cindy and myself, I would like to wish each and every one of you a Christmas season filled with quiet moments of gratitude, peace within you and your communities, and a deep sense of joy coming from the many miracles that surround us. At a time that we are made aware almost daily of the cruelty and intolerance created by ignorance and the chaos it leads to, I believe we have to strengthen our resolve to treat
one another with profound kindness and compassion. I would share with you that I am so bolstered in my desire to stay positive by the precious opportunities I have to spend time with the caring and authentic individuals that are supported by our programs. I express my sincerest gratitude to all of you reading this newsletter that have contributed your time, energy, talents, and personal means in ways that positively affected the individuals served by Garden Center Services and helped them to enhance their own strengths and life experiences. Our agency has always felt like a family and no matter how many individuals we are serving, we strive to maintain this fundamental significance as our foundation. Any of you that attended our recent 59th Annual Fashion
Show certainly sensed the closeness and bond we share. If you couldn’t make it this year there’s a link to an awesome video of the event prepared by Mr. Lydon on the agency’s website. As always, I was moved at this year’s event by a number of things: the joy and pride I saw on the faces of the program participants that attended this years’ luncheon; the laughter and sharing happening at all the tables; the playful and charming performance by this years’ models; and the incredible effort and collaboration from the staff, the event committee, the volunteers, and the board of directors that made this our most successful fashion show ever! Inside this newsletter you will find the December calendar that is filled with a number of holiday events that you, your family, and continued on page 4