Worthington Hills Garden Club
Projects

NEW PROJECTS [NP]

NP1 Community.
“Sewing Lives Together”. Through our donations of pocket change,
this project will be directed towards providing treadle sewing machines
and sewing supplies for the Ubumwe Community Center located in
Rwanda. These items will help and enable the handicapped children and
adults in the area learn a trade and gain economic independence. Funds
and supplies will be given directly to Partners in Conservation. We hope
to involve our immediate community, as well as our club, in this project.
Established 2010

CURRENT PROJECTS {CP}

CP1. CONSERVATION COMMUNITY
“It’s So Easy Going Green”. Club members plan to engage the
Worthington Hills community, young and old, in the process of
“living green” by providing a series of informative meetings about
how to reduce, reuse, and recycle every day. The initial community
meeting, which will take place at Worthington Hills Elementary School in
the fall of 2009, will provide general background on what to do in the
home and in the garden. Subsequent meetings will focus on specific
topics of interest.
Established in 2009.

CP2. COMMUNITY
Elementary School Herb Garden. Club members will provide the
material and labor necessary to re-establish the herb garden that the
Club had planted at Worthington Hills Elementary School in 1988.
For three years, school parents had taken over the maintenance of
the herb garden but found it was more labor intensive than they had
thought. Our members are reclaiming the herb garden from weeds
and overgrowth, will plant new herbs, which will provide an herb
garden classroom for the school, and will maintain the site.
Established in 2009.

CP3 .COMMUNITY
Marketing Campaign. A committee will define a long-term marketing
strategy for the Club, with the goal of attracting new and younger
members. Emphasis will be on identifying new program ideas and
promotional strategies, including an updated logo, typefaces, brochure,
banner, and other communications tools.
Established in 2009.

CP4. CONSERVATION
Seeding The Wilds. Members collect needed native plant seeds as
part of the Butterfly Conservation Initiative. A list of needed seeds is
published in the Forget-Me-Not. The seeds are donated to The Wilds
nature preserve, a 10-acre butterfly habitat located on reclaimed surface-
mined land in Cumberland, OH, 88 miles east of Columbus.
Established in 2004.

CP5. COMMUNITY
A. Seeds of Friendship. Members collect and donate vegetable and
flower seeds that are not readily available to the people of Rwanda as part
of the GCO project with Partners In Conservation (PIC). Providing food
sources to the Rwandans discourages them from hunting the endangered
mountain gorillas native to Rwanda. Specific seeds needed: bush green
beans, green bell peppers, carrots, tomatoes, cabbage, Spanish onions,
cosmos, and zinnia. Seeds should be for the current growing season
(2011). Deadline for donations is the GCO Spring District Meeting, 2011.
Established in 2004.

B. The Imbabazi Gardeners. The gardeners are responsible for
growing all the food for the Imbabazi Orphanage in Rwanda. We will
generate funds from the Aluminum Can Recycling project along with
other fund raising for needed gardening tools and equipment. Some
items will be purchased in Ohio while others from local blacksmith
shops in Rwanda. Items will be hand delivered by PIC representatives.
Established in 2007.

CP6. COMMUNITY
Columbus State Scholarship. We will present one $1,000
scholarship to a Columbus State Community College Landscape Design
student in September 2010. Proceeds from the annual Plant Sale are
designated for the scholarship fund. The sale is held in March and April
and plants are distributed at the pool at Worthington Hills Country Club.
Recipients to date:

2000-Elaine Ewer          2005-Catherine Andres
2001-Marc Rohner         2006-Crystal Morter, Nicholas Pruitt
2002-Joseph Mudd        2007-Katherine Moushey
2003-Amy Holmes         2008-Joseph Patterson
2004-Marcia Fox             2009-Jody Linnabary
Established in 2000.

CP7. COMMUNITY
Alzheimer’s Therapy. WHGC volunteering members meet at the
Columbus Alzheimer Care Center at 700 Jasonway Avenue, Columbus,
OH 43214, 315 south-exit Henderson road CACC is on the right.
Activities include singing, dancing, and remembering” from 10–11 a.m.
every Tuesday. WHGC funds an annual holiday party for the center’s
staff. Since the Alzheimer committee is not always able to have a piano
player available for the sing-a-long, with the help of a local high school
student, they prepared a DVD to be used when the piano player was
not available. This has been a great success. Home baked cookies are
always welcome. Come and see what we are up to Tuesday’s 10-11 a.m.
Established in 1992.

CP8. CONSERVATION
Aluminum Can Recycling. Members recycle aluminum cans with
the goal of raising at least $200 each year. Of that amount, this year
$50 will be used to adopt a Black Rhino at the Columbus Zoo, and $150 to
help fund the gardening tools of the Imbabazi Gardeners project.
Established in 1990
Mary Jane Stofer's garden
Shirley Decker's daffodils
Janice Tilley's garden