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16- Non Shore News -— Wednesday. June 14, 2000

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Planting 7
for some
good will

Vashti Singh
Contributing Writer

LOCAL companies got
down and dirty for the
Salvation Army recent-
ly.

North Shore — Credit
Union's (NSCU) Charitable
Foundation teamed up with
GardenWorks and North
Shore recycling to plant the
Salvation Army’s “Garden of
Giving” on May 24.

As a wrap-up for NSCU’s
month-long annual fundrais-
ing efforts the garden was
planted using donated soil,
plants and labour from the
various organizations.

Meryll Goodman, market-
ing manager for NSCU,
helped. with the _plaating.
“Everyone had a good time,”
she said.

Blessed with sunny weath-
er'and about 15 volunteers,
the day-long project saw an-
overhaul of the landscape
outside the building at 12th
and Lonsdale.

But Goodman said it was-
n’t just a day of fun in sun,

rather “it was about business-
" es coming together to help
out in the community.”
Although this was the first
time NSCU has planted a gar-
den, they hope to make the
“Garden of Giving” an annu-
al event by sprucing up a dif-
ferent flowerbed in the com-
munity each year.

Despite “the charitable
nature of the day spent out-
__. Side_and the pride of a job
» well done, Goodman had to
admit.there were other perks
to the volunteers’ efforts. She
-admitted, “It was great to

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