CONTINUING PROJECTSThe Blue Star Marker site continues to be maintained with plantings and flags.
Continue School District 203 partnership by providing students study opportunities in marketing, horticulture and floral design.
Membership in the Naperville Area Chamber of Commerce, and participation in the Chamber's Residential Greeter Bag Program.
Planting and maintaining the Nicarico Garden.
Floral exhibits, live plants, informational conservation or horticultural displays and Cup of Cheer™ workshop items are taken to Nichols’ Library each week. This is done to promote interest in the club and educate those in the community who use the library facility.
Scholarships are awarded each year to graduating high school seniors and college students in our community whose studies are concentrated in the conservation, horticulture, or environmental sciences. Two scholarships are awarded to North Central College students each year. Our scholarship program also includes a donation to the Garden Clubs of Illinois Scholarship Fund.
Food donations are collected throughout the club year to help support the Loaves and Fishes Food Pantry.
A permanent historical archive of our collected Club materials has been established at Naper Settlement. Club records and awards continue to be stored.
Postage stamps and uncut postcards are collected for the Illinois Audubon Society. Funds from the sale of the stamps and post cards go into the Land Acquisition Fund.
Continuing activities with Ecumenical Adult Care, Little Friends, “We Grow Dreams”, Sunrise Assisted Living, Martin Avenue Apartments, Villa St. Benedict and Independence Village.
The NGC Web site is continuously maintained.
The National award winning Club recipe book, ‘Thru the Garden Gate’, continues sales to fund scholarships and community projects.
Conservation efforts continue in the area of mustard garlic awareness and education. Backyard and county parks eradication is encouraged through scheduled weeding
NEW PROJECTSA Garden Therapy project at Independence Village will start a garden group to plant fall bulbs and a spring vegetable garden in a raised flower bed.
The Club will complete the purchase of two sets of the National Garden Club’s Flower Show School books of required reading. One set will be established in the reference section at Nichols Library. A second set will be available at the Aurora Library Eola Branch for check out. Partial funding for this project is provided through the Fran Love Memorial Fund
Partnership with the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory Prairie Quadrat Program to learn how to identify prairie plants, map a prairie plot and track restoration progress.
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