• Community clean-up at the Garden with assistance of the Parma, Ukrainian scouting community on May 2
• Planting of summer flowers in the Garden, organized by the Ukrainian Women’s League (UWL), branch #8
• Sold Lesya Ukrainka cards and netted $1200 towards restoration of the Lesya Ukrainka statue in the Garden, on September 19th
• Planted 200 tulip and daffodil bulbs in the Garden on November 8 by members of UWL, branch 8.
• UWL, branch 8 contracted with the Intermuseum Conservancy Association (ICA) to restore the Lesya Ukrainka statue so that it can be rededicated on the 50th anniversary of the statue’s dedication, September 11, 2011.  $4000 deposit  made December 1, gets ICA started
• Helped organize the Cleveland Cultural Gardens Federation’s annual holiday dinner in Little Ukraine, Parma, at Shynok Ukrainian restaurant.  Provided the “Kashtan” Ukrainian Dance troupe for a performance at the event, December 8.
• Applied to Holden Parks Trust for funding of the Lesya Ukrainka restoration on December 14th
• Mailing to Ukrainian Credit Union members on Lesya Ukrainka’s birthday with a sample card brought in $1300 towards the restoration effort by March 1, 2010.
• Future projects, in random order, are additional lighting for the Garden, water for irrigation, and exploration of hosting One World Day in 2011 on the September 11, 2011 anniversary of the Lesya Ukrainka statues dedication in 1961.
• See the Card entry on the www.culturalgardens.org blog/news pager for pictures and information on the cards for sale to support the Ukrainian Cultural Garden’s restoration.

Submitted by Ms. Dozia Krislaty, President, Branch #8 of the Ukrainian Women’s League.

Get great looking cards featuring photos of the renown Ukrainian-American sculptor, Alexander Archipenko, and Ukrainian sculptor Mykhailo Chereshniovsky in the Ukrainian Cultural Garden.  Buy them and support the restoration of the Ukrainian Cultural Garden by contacting the Ukrainian Women’s League of America, Branch 8, president Dozia Krislaty at 216-857-4878 or <dkrislaty@aol.com>.  Thumbnail versions of part of the larger photos follow:

Ukrainian political activities, writer, poet, critic, journalist and economist

Bronze sculture by renown Ukrainian sculptor, Mykhailo Chereshniovsky--1961

Taras Shevchenko--founder of modern Ukrainian literature, poet, and humanist

Volodymyr the Great converted the Kievan Rus to Christianity, beginning the Eastern Slavic period of Christianity

Mark your calendar.  The Federation’s Holiday dinner is coming Tuesday, December 8, 2009 at Shynok Party Center, 5840 State Road, in the middle of our area’s “Little Ukraine” neighborhood.  And you can be sure that you’ll find lots of Ukrainian delicacies on the menu. Invitations are going out soon with the details.  Contact Federation’s Executive Secretary and party giver extrordinaire, Mary Hamlin, at either (440) 461-2533 or mwhamlin@adelphia.net to be sure you are on the list.  Sold out event in 2008.  So be sure to get your reservation in soon after you receive it.  Space is limited.

Your invitation to the Federation's Holiday Dinner

Menu & directions for Holiday Dinner, December 8, 2009

Reservation Form for Holiday Dinner, December 8, 2009

Today, we are asking the Gardens community to help us identify details of some of our photos.  We have quite few images for which we know the date, the name of the place and/or the name of the event, but oftentimes we know nothing about individual the people depicted.  Many of us have visited, volunteered, and read extensively about the Gardens, while others have rich personal and family connections that go back in time.   Some of us know all the major historical themes, while others hold only small pieces of trivia about individual gardens, groups, people, and events.  But working together, we can answer questions that are both big and small.  Please click on the title or the “more” button to see the images and use the comments feature below to share your thoughts, insights and answers.

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