THIS MONTH’S ISSUE The View From My Chair
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GCS Family Spotlight
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Celebrate Me Home Benefit
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Around GCS
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THE LEAFLET ISSUE OCTOBER YEAR 2012
The View From My Chair a message from our Executive director
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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.
If there’s a Fall nip in the air, it must be Knights of Columbus’ Tootsie Roll Drive. time to begin thinking about our agency’s We now have four councils that we team 56th Annual Fashion Show & Luncheon. up with, and as we’re able to provide I’m excited by some novel changes and persons that can work the various locations additions to this year’s assigned to these councils, program and hope many we receive a percentage “[The Annual of you will be able to join of the donations. Last year us on Sunday, Nov. 4th, Fashion Show] is an for our efforts we accepted at the Doubletree Hotel checks from the Knights in Alsip. Being one of opportunity for us to totaling $4,700. During such the agency’s two large come together as the stretched economic times, fundraisers for the year, these additional funds are we obviously are hopeful Garden Center family so valuable. about generating some to celebrate our much needed revenue I also appreciated those for our programs; but this accomplishments and of you that went on line is also an opportunity the individuals we are and voted for our agency for us to come together to win one of the grants as the Garden Center honored to support” from Chase Bank. Even family to celebrate our though we didn’t generate accomplishments and the individuals enough votes this time, any opportunity we are honored to support. I’m thrilled to participate in contests like this where with this year’s theme, “EVERYDAY we share information about our services SUPERHEROES”, and look forward to with family, friends, and colleagues raises sharing some of the stories I have about awareness about the Garden Center, the superheroes I’ve encountered during grows our friends list, and increases my time at Garden Center! support from the community. I want to thank all of you that responded to our request to volunteer for this year’s
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