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Share Your Ideas for Coal Dock Park Project

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The City of Port Washington will have two miles of walks on the lakefront after the completion of the coal dock project, according to plans shared at last night’s public information meeting.

The meeting was to update the community on the project and to solicit ideas about possible uses for the 13-acre coal dock park, parts of which are scheduled to be completed June 2013.

The entire 17-acre project entails work on two areas: the north coal dock and the four-acre south coal dock. The latter, which opened in August, includes a bird sanctuary and walking trails. The two parts are planned to be connected via a pedestrian bridge.

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Director of Public Works Rob Vanden Noven updated attendees on progress with the project. After the completion of engineering plans and bidding out and awarding contracts for the work, construction began last month to lay the foundations of a park on the former coal dock. The building of pedestrian bridges, paths and laying of sewer and water lines has begun.

Pathways, some parking, the large green space, boardwalks and some landscaping are scheduled to be completed by next June.

Some changes have been made from the proposed plans:

  • A pedestrian bridge from the north side of the dock to Rotary Park will not be built because it would need to be high or be operated manually to prevent the blocking of navigation, Vanden Noven said.
  • Also, a floating dock at the end of the park is no longer planned. The city determined it wouldn’t work because there is no breakwater protecting that area.
  • There is also a war memorial planned for the park. Approved by the planning commission and the council, it would be located on the southeastern edge of the green space near the boardwalks, according to Vanden Noven.

Once the project is completed, the lakefront of the city will be connected by walkways.

“We’re boasting over two miles of walkway along the lakefront, which is not too bad for a community our size,” Vanden Noven said.

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About 10 people besides coal dock committee members attended the meeting. Attendees were encouraged to share ideas for the park. More work on the project is scheduled to be completed after 2013, including some type of community building.

“Of course we do have a master plan, but we’re also looking for ideas for special events or permanent improvements,” Vanden Noven said.

One resident, Dan Micha, suggested that the city consider a planetarium for the park. It would be a year-round facility and would enrich the community educationally.

Another suggestion for an activity at the new park was to hold a kite festival.

Mayor Tom Mlada said the focus will shift to what will need to be planned for the area after the grand opening in June 2013.

“After June 2013, we need to look forward to 2020,” he said, referencing the mission statement for the project: By 2020, create a signature four-season public waterfront that serves the community and attracts regional visitors.

“What else haven’t we considered that will draw people out there?” he asked.

Garden Club tour Saturday – Daytona Beach News

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The processes by which the gardens are selected is not a short one by any means, according to Jane Villa-Lobos, publicity director for the club, and former chair of the tour.

It begins with the “Selection of the Month,” a club program that honors a home with outstanding landscaping.

“We have a program called Selection of the Month, which is curb appeal, so essentially it’s just the front yard,” Villa-Lobos said. “We investigate those first to see if the whole yard is diverse and worthy of the tour. We got a few this year from that list.”

Board members were asked to scout for yards in their neighborhoods while they’re on their walks or driving by. A few candidates were offered, but none made the cut. Finally, Tour co-chairs Doreen Hodge and Marion Handschur, along with Villa-Lobos and Judith Davies, searched the streets of Flagler County for candidates.

“We do drive the streets,” Villa-Lobos said. “I always have my eyes peeled for yards that have curb appeal and could possibly be on the selection for yard of the month and then on the list for garden tour.

“The garden tour is different because it involves the complete yard.”

Eight homes in Palm Coast were selected for the tour, but two had to drop out. Villa-Lobos stressed the club encompasses more than just Palm Coast, and members search other areas for tour candidates. Two years ago, two homes on the tour were in Flagler Beach.

“We scoured Flagler Beach,” Villa-Lobos said. “We’re a garden club that is just located in Palm Coast. That’s why it’s called ‘at Palm Coast,’ we include Flagler Beach, Bunnell and the county. I thought it would be nice to include some gardens at Flagler Beach but we didn’t see any this time.”

The rules only allow repeats of homes after five years of first appearing in the tour.

The selections this year include a lot on a golf course, a lakeside lot, a lot near Graham Swamp, and yards featuring screened in gardens and landscaped courtyards. Membership in the garden club is not required; this year three of the yards are owned by members.

Art and Tomiko Taylor are not club members but their yard was honored as a Selection of the Month in 2010. The Taylors have a yard that combined preplanning and design with serendipitous touch affected by how some of their plants have reproduced.

They moved to Palm Coast in 2001 from Connecticut, where they had 11 acres with three of those landscaped. This is their eighth year at their current home.

Art planned for the initial landscaping by having the builders leave the grass out of the islands he’d marked out in the front and side of the house. Unsatisfied with the St. Augustine grass, he replaced it with Empire Zoysia “20 pieces at a time,” he said.

“It isn’t all completely planned,” Art said. “If seeds fall off a plant and start to grow, we let it grow and then find another place to put it.”

To the right of the front door there is a pocket garden with a dry stone river bed with a distinctly Asian theme, Japanese maple and weeping holly. Tomiko has also created a few informal bonsai in this garden. The Taylors keep up a vigilant pruning program in all the gardens to keep everything in proportion.

Keeping the gardens tended require quite a bit of work.

“It’s as much work to care for this little quarter acre than it was to care for 11 acres in Connecticut,” Art said. “We have more plants in the landscape here.”

Art said he needs to patrol the property every day for fire ants, and estimated that Tomiko spends 20 hours a week maintaining the gardens.

“Most of the time I spend is pulling weeds,” Tomiko said as she uprooted a small nutsedge. “I don’t do it every day, but when I do I love the fresh air, I come outside to look around and say ‘oh, here’s a weed’ and then I pull another one, and in the meantime I’ve been out an hour.”

For the Taylors, the pleasure of the garden is being outside to enjoy it.

“Some people come down to Florida and spend all day in the house,” Art said.

If you go

WHAT: Seventh Biennial Garden Tour

WHEN: 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Oct. 20

DETAILS: The group will tour six local gardens.

COST: Tickets are $10 and are available at Aimee’s Hallmark, Palm Harbor Shopping Village; Gospel Gardens, 1803 Old Moody Blvd.; Hammock Gardens, 5208 N. Oceanshore Blvd.; and NatureScapes Garden Center, 313 Old Brick Road.

Farmington audience gets tips on surviving Doomsday situations

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FARMINGTON An expert in calamity preparedness, Dave OConnor, (known as Dr. Tomato in other situation) talked to an audience in Farmington Womans Club, last week, that comprised a combination of local gardeners and folks seeking knowledge on how to survive worst case scenarios from economic collapse to catastrophes like Hurricane Katrina.
Referring to his life experience enabling him to talk extensively on the subject, OConnor said he was a Dartmouth graduate, who had spent 10 years in law enforcement, another 10 years as a professional bounty hunter, and had experience in foreign conflict zones. He has taught high angle vertical rescue, has rock and ice climbing experience, is a wire walker and a power-lifter. He omitted to mention that he also plays the bagpipes.
Noting the familiar gardening faces among the audience, he said, Self sufficiency doesnt equate to survival.
He also noted that people have to decide on their own level of preparedness, and then started off with the 72-hour disaster, usually caused, in this area, by blizzards or floods, causing the power to go out.
Then there are forest fires, Seabrook (nuclear plant), and we are near a military base. Here we enter into the area of risk analysis, he said.
In all cases, food, shelter, water and warmth have to be planned for.
OConnor recommends people have a jump bag put together for 72-hour emergencies in case they have to leave their homes, and this should include medications, important papers, money, and a list of items for insurance purposes. A jump kit kept in a vehicle should include water, a first aid kit, a source of light, matches and more. He passed out a sheet containing an extensive list.
For longer range disasters that might occur in the future, such as a breakdown in civil order or a serious interruption to the power grid, OConnor said people had to decide, Do you get out of the situation or survive it at home? Make a long-range plan, but dont dwell on it, or it will drive you nuts, he said.
There is only a two-day supply of food in the food stores, said OConnor, stressing the importance of stocking up on supplies.
He said that some people, with this in mind, favor setting up a community somewhere else.
They need an agricultural-based society that has to be more than one full gas tank away from a city. It takes over a year to get such a place set up, and meanwhile, what do you do for work? It is almost out of the realm of practicality, he said.
OConnor then pointed out the difference in public attitudes between a short-lived catastrophe and one lasting longer.
Up to 72 hours, people band together, he said, but with a longer event, people start changing, said OConnor, giving the chaos that ensued during the Katrina aftermath as an example.
That was the survival of the fittest and most street savvy, he said.
For extended periods of deprivation, he urged people to develop a low cost family food system, keeping in mind that around 1,500 calories per day per person are needed to sustain body weight for the average person.
He suggested items like beans, rice, vitamins, olive oil and powdered milk, as well as comfort foods like chocolate. He recommended varied meals, and added the tip of stocking toilet paper.
The longer the crises lasts, the higher your skill level has got to be, he said.
When facing violence, OConnor said that people had to decide if they wanted a weapon.
How you deal with people is more important than walking around with an assault rifle. There is always someone who has a bigger one, he said.
He recommended to the audience that they get a copy of a book like How to fix everything, and also to consider how they would negotiate with other survivors of a crisis, using barter items such as booze, ammo, matches and even aspirins.
The mind is the most important tool to keep you alive. You have to develop a survivor mind-set, he said, adding The Deep Survival by Laurence Gonzales to his books to read list.
To counteract the natural instinct of panic in a dire situation, OConnor recommended that people test themselves with bungee jumping or icy showers.
Bring it back. Bring it back. Bring your breathing down. You have to be able to work and focus when you are cold, tired and wet, he said.
He then went on to discuss the hardening of ones home, to make it more resilient to any attempted invasion by outsiders, and he talked about the ethical dilemma that someone might face when approached by a starving neighbor for food.
I dont care about neighbors, only my family, said a woman from the audience, echoing the sentiment of others in the room envisaging their prepared larders being quickly depleted by generosity.
Keep your larder out of sight, said OConnor, suggesting that if the mother across the street asks for food, she should be shown a cupboard with just a few cans in it.
Give her a couple, and she will think you are in the same boat, he said.
OConnor (who actually lives in a castle) said that the more fortified a home looks, the more it seems to people on the outside that you have stuff in there.
Try to look like everyone else, melt into the neighborhood and never leave your home unguarded, he said.
Getting back to firearms, OConnor recommended people read On Killing by Dave Grossman.
I am not a fan of Stand your Ground laws, having been involved with weapons for 30 years. When you carry a weapon it puts your mind in a different place. The decision about using a weapon becomes blurred. They have the potential to do good but also a tremendous amount of harm, he said.
Asked about forming alliances, in extended dire situations, OConnor said there were pros and cons.

They can work well if you know the people, but there has to be shared responsibility, he said.

Experts share gardening tips in Swindon

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Gardening experts share tips on hanging baskets at Lydiard Park in Swindon

3:31pm Wednesday 17th October 2012 in News

Learn about hanging baskets

A workshop to make hanging baskets will take place at Lydiard House on Saturday.

The workshop will be led by Lydiard Park Gardening Team and will plant up a hanging basket with violas, bellis, dianthus, cyclamen and miniature daffodils.

It will run from 11am to noon and 2pm to 3pm and costs £15 per person, including all materials, bulbs and refreshments. Places must be booked by calling 01793 770401 or via email at lydiardpark@swindon.gov.uk.

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Workshop offers tips on plantings, pests and more

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Q. What vegetables can I plant in my garden now? — Cameron, San Luis Obispo

A. There are many cool season vegetables you can plant now, which produce well from seeds or from transplants in the cooler months of the year. Among them: broccoli, carrots, chard, kale, kohlrabi, leeks, lettuce, spinach, onions and most Asian greens. In San Luis Obispo County, many herbs such as chives, parsley, rosemary and thyme are also hardy year- round.

A chart of recommended vegetable planting dates is available through the University of California: http://ucanr.org/sites/gardenweb/files/29040.pdf.

If planting and keeping a kitchen garden over the cooler months seems daunting, attend the Master Gardener October “Advice To Grow By” workshop on Saturday! We’ll feature a talk on kitchen gardens, including how to prepare the garden, grow and enjoy winter vegetables. It will be held in our demonstration garden, the Garden of the Seven Sisters, 2156 Sierra Way, in San Luis Obispo from 10 a.m. to noon. Bring a hat, dress for the weather and bring your vegetable and herb gardening questions for our Master Gardener experts.

Q. Every year we’re faced with an invasion of some kind of pest. Once it was mice, and ants are always a problem. What can we do to thwart these pests? — Bobbie, Templeton

A. We have a great resource! Information on most pests found in California is only a few keystrokes away. The University of California Agricultural Natural Resources website has a searchable data base of research-based information on household pests at the UC IPM Online website: http://www.ipm.ucdavis.edu/PMG/menu.house.html

The Master Gardener’s upcoming “Advice To Grow By” workshop Saturday will also feature a timely talk about our most common winter pests, ants and mice, including their habits and effective control methods. Park in the lot adjacent to the garden.

Got a gardening question? Contact the University of California Cooperative Extension Master Gardeners: at 781-5939 from 1 to 5p.m. on Monday and Thursday; at 473-7190 from 10 a.m. to noon on Wednesday in Arroyo Grande; and at 434-4105 from 9 a.m. to noon on Wednesday in Templeton. Visit the UCCE Master Gardeners Web site at http://ucanr.org/sites/mgslo/ or   e-mail mgsanluisobispo@ucdavis.edu.

Garden club to plant rose garden at hospice home

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pMondee Tilley | The News/ppLandscape architect Chip Calloway, center, leads the Garden Gate Gardening Club over to the area where he designed a rose garden the club plans to build behind the Joan and Howard Woltz Hospice Home in Dobson./p

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Landscape architect Chip Calloway, center, leads the Garden Gate Gardening Club over to the area where he designed a rose garden the club plans to build behind the Joan and Howard Woltz Hospice Home in Dobson.

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DOBSON — In honor of a dear friend and former Garden Gate Gardening Club member, Julie Bray, the club met Tuesday with landscape architect Chip Calloway at the Joan Howard Woltz Hospice Home in Dobson to discuss plans for a rose garden behind the home.

Calloway said he lost his mother who was staying in the home for her end-of-days care, so he donated his time to design a garden for those who have lost a loved one or for those visiting or staying in the Woltz Hospice Home.

“This is near and dear to my heart,” said Calloway over lunch at the home with the garden club.

The club’s president, Rosie Sink, explained to the group that there is a lot of sunshine in the spot where the garden is planned.

“I think this is such a wonderful project. Hope we can get local residents and businesses to help out with this project,” said Sink. “This came from heaven. Just look at the sky.”

Sink said Bray had four small children, so this project is especially meaningful for the group.

“She was here — so this means a lot to us,” said Sink.

Club member Susan Campbell remembered spending the last week of Bray’s life with her at the hospice home.

“Her favorite color was ‘yallow.’ She was from Virginia, so that’s how she said it,” said Campbell. “I know she is tinkled pink looking down from heaven at this project.”

She is passionate about making sure there are yellow roses in the garden there in memory of her friend who died at the age of 45.

Sheila Jones, director of development and marketing for Mountain Valley Hospice and Palliative Care, said the garden club needs to make sure the garden is wheelchair accessible for residents at the home.

“The whole point of this is making sure that people are able to enjoy the view of this garden,” said Jones.

Before the group walked out to the area where the garden will be planted, Calloway showed them some slides of his work. Members of the club, let the word “Wow” out as each slide of his work came up.

Calloway said people love to get married in his yard that is just outside of downtown Greensboro.

He said a few years ago, he invited chef Alice Waters to his home where he showed her his edible garden. She then invited him to California to design an edible garden for a school there.

Plans for the garden include a drip irrigation system, a bench and a picket fence.

Donations for the garden will be certainly appreciated, Sink said.

Reach Mondee Tilley at mtilley@heartlandpublications.com or at 719-1930.

National Leaders Convene in Nashville to Advise on Final Design of Alzheimer’s …

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NASHVILLE, Tenn., Oct. 16, 2012 — /PRNewswire/ — Abe’s Garden, a proposed residential community and daycare center for individuals with Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias, will host a summit for leaders in the field of creating environments for the elderly at an architectural planning session, better known as a “charette,” on October 18.

Respected professionals from around the country will join those in Nashville at the full day event at the Nashville Public Television studios (at 161 Rains Ave) to discuss a wide-range of design topics that affect Alzheimer’s and dementia care. Additionally, the nationally recognized leaders will share their knowledge of “best practices” to inform the final architectural and interior design for Abe’s Garden.

The charette, and the ultimate design of Abe’s Garden, will enable the organization to provide an unprecedented level of care and comprehensive array of services for individuals suffering from Alzheimer’s and dementia in Middle Tennessee. Abe’s Garden will also be a community setting a new standard of research and development for future programs and communities caring for our nation’s rapidly expanding senior population.

The three nationally renowned design professionals will offer consultation and advice on how to integrate evidence-based elements that foster safety, cognitive and physical health, emotional comfort, and independence in routine daily activities into the final plans for the campus. Rosemary Bakker, ASID, MS, a gerontologist, certified interior designer, and an academic staff member at Weill Cornell Medical College; Margaret Calkins, Ph.D., a leader in the field of environments for the elderly; and Lorraine Hiatt, Ph.D., author and public speaker on the issues of design and planning, will share their combined expertise to help design Abe’s Garden as a state-of-the art community.

The charette will be facilitated by Jody Lentz. Also participating in the discussion will be the Executive Director of Alzheimer’s Resource Center of Connecticut, Michael Smith. Middle Tennessee representatives to the charette include Janet Ayers of The Ayers Foundation; Kim Hawkins and Allison Marusic of Hawkins Partners, Inc.; Deborah Robin, M.D. of Vanderbilt University; Saurabh Sinha of emids; Lesley Beeman, Mark Bixler, Carly Conrad and Manuel Zeitlin of Manuel Zeitlin Architects; as well as John Schnelle, Ph.D., Sandra Simmons, Ph.D., and James Powers, M.D., AGSF of Vanderbilt Center for Quality Aging.

“Hosting the charette is a reflection of our commitment to incorporating evidenced-based design into Abe’s Garden. The breadth of knowledge represented by these respected participants will ensure the integration of best practices in our campus design,” said Andrew B. Sandler, Ph.D., CEO of Abe’s Garden. “Abe’s Garden will be an innovative and comforting environment that provides individualized life enrichment programs to seniors and support for family members and caregivers.

“Abe’s Garden is a pioneer in the field with the understanding that it takes a village to create an environment of care that will enrich the everyday lives and functions of persons with dementia, while creating an optimum work space for dedicated caregivers,” stated Rosemary Bakker, ASID, MS.

Abe’s Garden Abe’s Garden is a 501(c)(3) organization, founded in 2007. In 2008, the Nashville based organization purchased Park Manor, a well established senior independent lifestyle community; and recently converted the second floor into an assisted living community in response to the needs of current and future residents.  

On the Park Manor campus, Abe’s Garden will provide evidence-based adult daycare and residential services designed specifically for individuals suffering from Alzheimer’s disease or related dementias. 

Abe’s Garden will develop best practices for dementia care through a planned collaboration with Vanderbilt Center for Quality Aging. The venture could pursue research that evaluates programs and clinical outcomes. Research will be led by the recently endowed Abram C. Shmerling, M.D. Chair in Alzheimer’s and Geriatric Medicine at Vanderbilt University.

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Asian-inspired Garden of Tranquility in Timonium offers space to contemplate

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The new Garden of Tranquility at Dulaney Valley Memorial Gardens embraces a graceful, simple design that has its roots in the ancient Chinese practice of feng shui, the art of arranging spaces with balance and comfort in mind.

The simplicity of the 7-acre garden belies the elaborate planning that went into each detail.

The garden features a winding path through a flower garden in the shape of the lucky number eight. A labyrinth is in the shape of an octagon, another lucky shape. Flowers are planted in a swirling pattern, considered essential to life as evidenced by the swirl of a fingerprint or the crown of hair on a baby’s head.

Four topiary animals watch over the garden — tiger, dragon, tortoise and phoenix.

The granite pagoda at the entrance to the garden symbolizes knowledge and wisdom, said Hope Gerecht, a feng shui expert who helped design the garden with Amy Shimp, general manager of Dulaney Valley Memorial Gardens.

“For the first 2000 years, feng shui was only used in burials, not in the home as we think of it today,” said Gerecht, a Stevenson resident, who normally applies the ancient art to interior design.

“How we care for our ancestors affects our lives,” she said last week, walking through the garden as workers continued the job of installing elements.

“There is an invisible energy and movement and every space is unique. Here, the elements of the garden interact with personal elements,” Gerecht said. “This whole garden wove itself together.”

The design includes six granite benches, each bearing the image of the official flower of an Asian country. The meaning of the flower is written below the image in the language of the country.

Shimp said the yearlong project began when she noticed the local Asian population gravitated to the Peace Garden, an area on a hill overlooking water.

Some visitors simply found the setting ideal for contemplation. Others, like Wilbur Su, had relatives buried nearby.

When Wilbur Su’s father, Chi-Tsung Su, died two years ago, his family chose a grave site on the hill for the Lutherville plastic surgeon who was born in Taiwan.

“When we were choosing the site, Amy told us about plans for the garden, and my family and I helped by telling her what was important in the Chinese-Taiwanese traditions,” Wilbur Su said. “We couldn’t be more pleased with the way it turned out. They paid so much attention to detail. There is nothing else like this in Baltimore County.”

Shimp and Gerecht also had input in developing a conceptual design from Joseph Kim, who has a degree in landscape architecture and whose uncle is buried at Dulaney Valley Memorial Gardens.

“The concept came from ideas and influences of traditional Asian style and Japanese style gardening,” he said and the main idea was to create spaces where visitors may reflect, meditate and be soothed by memories.

“It is more than a garden with just plants and a designed landscape,” he said.

The garden was also designed to appeal to people of all cultures, said John Mitchell, chairman of Dulaney Valley Memorial Gardens.

The public is invited to a dedication ceremony for the new Garden of Tranquility at Dulaney Valley Memorial Gardens, on Wednesday, Oct. 24, at noon, followed by light refreshments. The Oct. 24 dedication date was chosen after consulting a Chinese almanac for the best day to hold such a ceremony.

The ceremony will feature speakers, drummers, a traditional lion dance, fireworks, music and tours with an explanation of the main garden elements. Dulaney Valley Memorial Gardens is located at 200 E. Padonia Road, Timonium. For more details, call 410-666-0490.

Military Veterans Key to Flourishing Landscaping Venture

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WASHINGTON, Oct. 15, 2012 — /PRNewswire/ — A Washington, D.C.-based small business dedicated to providing stable jobs for veterans has doubled its employee count and achieved profitability in its first year of business. Vetcorps Landscaping, a full-service professional landscaping company, employs American military veterans who provide high quality landscape design, installation and maintenance services. In addition to providing Veterans with stable employment, a portion of the company’s profits are donated to organizations that assist veterans and their families.

Vetcorps was launched in January by U.S. Navy veterans Chris McDonald and Matt Proietta, along with horticulture expert, professional landscaper and entrepreneur John Yori. Vetcorps has since hired three full-time military veterans, including two U.S. Marine Corps veterans and a U.S. Navy veteran with more than 20 years of service, and also provided seasonal summer work for a U.S. Navy veteran and an Army ROTC cadet.

“We are very pleased that, despite record-breaking drought this year, Vetcorps was able to achieve strong growth,” McDonald said. “We are grateful to the more than 40 residential and commercial clients who have allowed us to serve them and, in turn, provide jobs and support to those who have bravely served our country.”

Vetcorps’ services include landscape design and installation, fountains and waterscapes, irrigation systems, lawn and garden maintenance, outdoor lighting, special events landscaping, stonework, rooftops, and container gardens.

Even as summer ends, the company anticipates busy months ahead providing autumn leaf collection, outdoor holiday decoration, and Christmas tree delivery services throughout the Washington region.

“Our goal going into 2013 is to double our workload and, again, to double our workforce so we can continue to combat the high unemployment rate among returning veterans,” Proietta said. “As revenue increases, we will be able to donate even more time and money to charitable organizations supporting veterans and their families.”

Vetcorps Landscaping is also sponsoring a Military Appreciation Night with Tel’Veh Cafe and Wine Bar, 401 Massachusetts Ave. NW. in Washington, from 6 p.m. to 10 p.m. on Nov. 11 in order to gather much needed items for the wounded troops recovering at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Md. Vetcorps invites the general public, its clients and active/retired/separated members of the military to attend. Individuals who donate any or several of the requested items from the American Red Cross Wish List (which can be viewed at www.vetcorpslandscaping.com) will receive a wrist band entitling them to specially discounted prices on beer, wine and drinks provided by the proprietor of Tel’Veh. A representative of the American Red Cross will also be present.

About Vetcorps Landscaping

Established by American veterans and experienced horticulturalists and landscape designers, Vetcorps Landscaping is a full service, professional landscaping company providing high quality design, installation and maintenance for residential and commercial clients in the Washington, D.C., region. Vetcorps is committed to employing America’s heroes and contributing a portion of its profits to organizations that assist veterans and their families. To learn more about Vetcorps and its services, visit vetcorpslandscaping.com.

Media Contact: Erin Lawley, 615-946-9914, erin@lovell.com

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