City Year-Cleveland, along with Cleveland State University’s Center for Leadership and Service brought over 40 volunteers to the Cultural Gardens on Saturday, October 24, 2009 for their 19th national “Make a Difference Day” volunteer efforts.  The difference they made in the Gardens after four hours must be seen to be believed.  The Cleveland Cultural Gardens Federation salutes City Year-Cleveland and CSU’s Center for Leadership and Service for making a world of a difference in the Cultural Gardens.  Thanks to Philip Hrvatin of the Slovenian Cultural Garden we have pictures of just some of those volunteers.

Make a Difference Day Volunteers--Slovenian Garden

Volunteers in Slovenian Garden, Make A Difference Day, October 24, 2009

Make A Difference Day Information

Clean-up results in the Slovenian Garden

Enjoy an afternoon of entertainment and camaraderie while raising funds for the proposed Croatian Cultural Garden on Sunday, November 1, 2009, from 3 PM at the Croatian Heritage Museum and Library, 34900 Lake Shore Blvd, Eastlake, Ohio 44095.

Performing will be the Croatian Tamburitzins and the St. Paul’s Church Choir. Admission is $15.

Call the Museum to reserve your tickets:  440-946-2044.  Plenty of free parking in the center’s parking lot.

Donations for the Croatian Cultural Garden will be accepted at the event.  As well a 50/50 raffle will be run that afternoon with tickets costing $10 each.

See you there!

You will soon notice “Donate” buttons located at strategic locations throughout the site, allowing you to donate money to the General Fund of the Cultural Gardens Federation. With over 10,000 visitors hear each year, it is our hope that some small portion will donate, helping support and expand the work of the Federation in maintaining and promoting the Gardens.

The next time that you see Bill Jones, our fearless friend, partner, and the designated representative of the Cultural Gardens Federation to this site, say thanks. Using Google donate was his great idea. We are happy to be able to implement it here.

In a test today, I donated; please join me in making a donation to the Cultural Gardens Federation to preserve the Gardens for the next generation.

Below is the agenda for the Executive Board Meeting of the Cleveland Cultural Gardens Federation for October 13th, 2009.

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Talk about painless giving.  Here it is. Start Thursday evening, October 8. 2009, between 5:30 PM and 7:30 PM in Jimmy O’Neills restaurant on Lee Road at Cedar in Cleveland Hts.  $15 per person gets you a meal of salmon, pork tenderloin, crab cakes, pecan encrusted chicken or spinach tart with potatoes or rice and mescalun salad with strawberries.  Follow that with a whipped cream cake together with beverages & coffee.  Again, that is all for $15, period.  For another $3, wine or Campari.  Wander two doors north at 7:30 PM for “Miracle at St. Anna”, a Spike Lee film, that looks into WWII from Latino and African-American soldiers’ perspectives.  As the New York Times review puts it:  ““Miracle at St. Anna” breaks free of its own grandiosity and tells a grounded, moving, human story. Not a miracle by any means, but an earthy inquiry into death, duty, friendship and honor. What we’ve always wanted from war movies.”  Admission is $10 for the film.  In English.  Metered parking in back of the theater, Cedar-Lee, and restaurant. TICKETS BY ADVANCE RESERVATION ONLY;  440-527-0644.  Call now while the ticket and food reservations are still available.