THIS MONTH’S ISSUE The View From My Chair
01
Garden Center Family Spotlight
02
GCS Potting Party 2012
03
Around GCS
04
THE LEAFLET ISSUE MAY YEAR 2012
The View From My Chair a message from our Executive director
OUR MISSION Garden Center Services is committed to supporting and empowering persons with developmental disabilities through innovative and person-centered services. Our commitment to the excellence of our programs is surpassed only by our devotion to the people we serve and the communities in which they live.
Boy, you can tell its spring by the amount The Garden Gallery & Studio continues of growth happening at Garden Center to develop before our eyes. All of the Services! I am so pleased to inform you landscaping has been completed recently, that we have closed on our new day and the site is a splendid addition to program and office building to replace the our agency, and the Tinley Park historic Wesbrook site which we were forced to business district. The studio portion of the vacate. The building is close to 104th & enterprise is active. Every day we have Kedzie and should provide us the space to eight consumers at the studio creating art support the individuals that were attending and helping take care of the building. As the Wesbrook location and offer services to we choose more local art for the gallery some new referrals. The deep cleaning and and finish setting up the café, we will set painting that we’ve already the date for our Grand done has really brightened Opening! I want to thank all “ up the place, and I believe the staff and consumers Finally, I wanted to this new location will be a wonderful representation of the Oak Lawn for the way they have mention Garden Center Services for living arrangement that handled the last two is now home to four years to come. that are supported months of working in women I want to thank all the staff by Garden Center. It’s and consumers for the very confined quarters good to have a Garden way they have handled the Center home located in and sharing common the Oak Lawn community, last two months of working in very confined quarters we have found our resources and supplies.” and and sharing common neighbors there to be very resources and supplies. I welcoming and friendly. am also grateful to those staff that have been working so hard to get the Kedzie Today, I am celebrating my 9th year location ready. For anybody that still has anniversary as the executive director of not heard about the problems we incurred GCS. It is a privilege and honor to have this at Wesbrook, there is a link on our website position, and it is one of the best things that to a wonderful article written by Phil Kadner has ever happened to me. of the Southtown Star. As a result of this article we have had a number of donations Thank you, to help us with the expenses we’ve experienced. Many donations have come from individuals that have not had a past relationship with our agency. A 5 0 1 ( c ) ( 3 ) N o n p r o fit organization