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First
Year Successes
With excellence as
a standard, we developed the vision for Central
Gardens, laid groundwork through programming, and created an
organization to grow that vision to reality. This required developing
structures, priorities and procedures and above all recruiting excellent
volunteers to guide and accomplish our goals.
Selection of our five
commitments was critical. They remain the criteria by which we select,
implement and assess our activities.
They are:
Excellence
Beauty
Education
Horticultural Knowledge
Building the Garden.
Programming was instituted
to involve as many people as possible, to
educate the public, and to tell our evolving story. All three programming
areas, Education, Events and Projects are totally dependent on volunteers
and sponsors or contributors. Since Central Gardens of North Iowa is a
volunteer organization, the quality and commitment of those volunteers
is the first harvest of this garden. More than 500 individuals and 80
businesses, foundations, organizations and public entities have combined
efforts to make this a success.
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Volunteer
Hours
2001
Event Overview
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