CONTACT

For additional information about the North Springs Home and Garden Club, contact Tricia Jusino @ (803)419-4400.

PURPOSE

Neighborhood organization open to all residents which promotes neighborliness, amateur gardening, area beautification, and home appeal.

MEETINGS

Second Monday of each month (September – May) in member homes. Includes a guest speaker who is knowledgeable in their profession, a business meeting and social time. Meeting date, location and speaker topic are posted on the Home / Calendar page and also on the bulletin boards located at each of the 3 entrances to the neighborhood.

If you are interested in hearing any particular speaker, all residents are welcome to attend. Speakers are always first on the meeting agenda.

FUND-RAISERS

Two annual plant sales to neighborhood residents (April ( geraniums) and September (mums).

Spring Bake and Plant sale held on the same morning as the Neighborhood Yard Sale.

Income from sales are used to/for:

- support charity donations (Quilts of Valor and school programs)

- beautification at Garden Club Park (located in front of tennis courts)

- “Curb Appeal” program

- donation to North Springs Easter Egg Hunt

- donation to Fourth of July Celebration

- club committees

DONATIONS

Plant Cuttings - The plant cuttings and plant support involve our long standing partnership with the Green Steps program at Summit Parkway Middle School with the intention of teaching students how to use plants to improve indoor air quality. We are working again this year with Dr. Allison Benoit and her Green Steps Team, which placed more than 50 plants in classrooms last year with our help.

Toilet paper/paper towel rolls, various bottle caps - donated to Chapin Hardy, Events Coordinator, at the Edventure Children's Museum.

Old Calendars – Donated to DHEC's "Breathe Right" school program that promotes outdoor air quality. Calendars are folded into fans and given to parents waiting for their students in the carpool line. Parents are encouraged to cut off their engines and use the fans rather than idling their car engines and adding toxic fumes to the air.

Tab Tops – donated to support the Ronald McDonald House Foundation. The rooms in these homes are used by parents that have children in the hospital and have come from out of town. A lot of these children are suffering with cancer. These rooms do not cost the parents anything, although, if they have the means, they can donate supplies and/or money.

Toiletries and other wish list items – donated to the Women’s Shelter

Boxtops for Education – are donated to several special education classes in Richland School District Two elementary schools. They are used to obtain needed classroom supplies that are not funded by the district.

New Donation: Assorted Fabric Pieces – We have been working with Jane Hiller, Educational Director at Sonoco Recycling, to place assorted fabric pieces that Stephanie Alexander can't use for Quilts of Valor with other groups. Mrs. Hiller has been able to use some of it for Sonoco events, and she has also been able to share fabric with the Maker Program at Edventure and with various DHEC programs.

QUILTS OF VALOR

Under Our Wings (UOW) is a program that allows anyone to participate in national service by making a comforting Quilt of Valor (QOV) for an American armed services member touched by war.

Quilts of Valor are presented to North Springs veteran residents or club members who have served our country.