Thanksgiving Donations

Last August I was asked to be the guest speaker at the Brighton Optimist Club breakfast.  I met a nice bunch of people, and learned about an organization that I had heard about, but knew very little about what they stood for; that type of networking is definitely an added perk to my job.

Anyway, one woman said her family always chose a charity to donate to over the holidays, and at Thanksgiving they would supply the name of the charity and at Christmas they collected donations.  Really cool idea!  Well she put The Victory Garden on the list this Thanksgiving, and collected all the donations above - hand tools,clippers, gloves, hose sprayer, watering can, and recycled produce container.  AND a $15 gift card to Home Depot!

I'm very thankful, and I really love her idea.  I might steal that to use with my extended family this year.