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On Wednesday, May 4th, Friendship Village residents, Mr. and Mrs. Gondek and Friendship Village associates Jeff Rose and Jeannette Magdaleno attended the Hands on Suburban Chicago Volunteer Award ceremony. Friendship Village received the Community Impact Award for the Hoover Greenhouse project. Joe and Dot Gondek, volunteers for the Hoover Greenhouse, accepted the award and assisted [...]
Friendship Village of Schaumburg honored 371 volunteers at a breakfast ceremony entitled: “Celebration: People in Action.” Over 140 volunteers attended the event and enjoyed a hearty breakfast, high accolades and astonishing statistics to kick off National Volunteer Week.
“The best thing about this event is the ability to thank all our volunteers,” said [...]
Friendship Village received the “Community Impact Award” from Life Services Network during their annual conference held at Navy Pier. The award honors Friendship Village’s outreach program to Herbert Hoover Elementary School where the Friendship Village residents and staff worked with students and teachers to create “Hoover Friendship Garden… Growing Green Dreams.”
“The intergenerational partnership [...]
Residents and staff from Friendship Village of Schaumburg received a Super Partner Award from School District 54 for their ongoing involvement with Herbert Hoover Elementary School. The award was given at the 16th annual School/Community Partnership Breakfast held at Mead Jr. High. Friendship Village joined Hoffman Estates High School, Lens Crafters and Roosevelt as Super [...]
On Wednesday, September 15, ten Friendship Village resident volunteers joined with the Hoover Elementary School student body, teachers and administration, Board of Education and District Foundation along with Schaumburg Mayor Larson to celebrate the Friendship Greenhouse project.
During the event, Friendship Village resident Tom Carroll was given the opportunity to address the audience.
“Good Morning, My name [...]
On Monday, nearly four dozen volunteers donated their time, talent, tools and materials to the Herbert Hoover greenhouse project in Schaumburg, Illinois. From five year olds to 95 year olds and every age between, the local community has embraced the brainchild of school principal Jake Chung, to teach children about creating a greenhouse and [...]
Follow the progress of the greenhouse project with Friendship Village resident Shirley Odegaard’s blog.
See our online photo album
Watch our slide show of one of our work days
other greenhouse posts:
Handymen Dig Into a Project at Hoover School
Friendship Greenhouse Dedication Ceremony
Schaumburg student/senior garden a model of cooperation (Daily Herald)
It was just a seed of an idea… build a greenhouse, ask seasoned gardeners how to grow vegetables, and then give the produce to the local food pantry.
But Principal Jake Chung and the staff at Herbert Hoover Elementary School in Schaumburg have a vision far beyond the glass panels of a single greenhouse. Hoover [...]
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