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EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

Thomas M. Lewins

 

Board of Directors

 

OFFICERS

Donald Petrash

President

Bruce Sherman, Ph.D.  

Vice President

Jonathon Good, Esq. 

Secretary

Ed Kubek

Treasurer

Michael Primrose, Esq.

Immediate Past 

Officer

 

DIRECTORS

Robert F. Angart

Edward A. Boehmer

Joyce Bresler

Ken Light

Brian Mackert

 

DIRECTOR EMERITUS

Joan Potiker

Gardener



Duties

  • provide friendship and social interaction

  • share love of gardening and outdoors

  • provide both verbal and hands on training

  • plant, water and tend various flowers and vegetables

  • each of our homes in Lake and Cuyahoga are in need of a volunteer

Qualifications

  • love of gardening

  • ability to foster an appreciation of gardening in others

  • ability to physically do the work (perhaps digging carrying flats, etc)

  • ability to adapt skills when necessary, to allow  for understanding by person with MR/DD

Schedule

  • varies

Handicapped Accessible Site(s) 

  • no or limited

Our residents appreciate the flower gardens at their homes.


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