Welcome to the July edition of Green Spaces, the e-newsletter of the Newport News Green Foundation. This monthly newsletter is intended to keep you up-to-date on the work the Green Foundation is doing to make Newport News a more visually attractive place to live, work, and play.
In this edition you will find recent news and information. We hope you will share this newsletter with a friend or colleague. Also, don't forget to visit the Newport News Green Foundation on Twitter and Facebook, and visit our web site: www.newportnewsgreenfoundation.org.
Sincerely,
Amanda Dale Wroten
Executive Director
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Warwick Ruritan Club Preserves a Greener Future
The Warwick Ruritan Club, whose purpose is to create a better understanding among people and through volunteer community service, make America's communities better places in which to live and work recently provided the Newport News Green Foundation $500 in grant monies to assist the foundation in promoting the creation and preservation of green space throughout the City of Newport News through advocacy, acquisition, and assistance to others.
"We are excited about sharing a common goal of making our community better," said Amanda Wroten, Executive Director of the Newport News Green Foundation. "The Warwick Ruritan Club's generosity will help make Newport News a more visually attractive place to live, work and play for current and future generations. We are honored by their generosity and look forward to partnering with them."
The slogan of Ruritan is "Fellowship, Goodwill and Community Service." Club membership represents a cross-section of the community in which the club serves, and is not restrictive with regard to occupation, social position, or any other specific criteria.
Ruritan National has nearly 32,000 members throughout the United States who work to improve more than 1,200 local communities. Since the organization's beginning in 1928, Ruritan Clubs have served America with Fellowship, Goodwill, and Community Service. Ruritan is a civic service organization made up of local
clubs in urban areas, small towns and rural communities. For more information visit www.ruritan.org. |
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Volunteers Needed
This summer the Newport News Green Foundation will have a shared booth at the Port Warwick Summer Concert Series. The space is donated by our grant funder, CSX Corporation.
The concerts run June 1st through September 21st, every Wednesday from 6:30 until 8:30 p.m. A full list of the bands playing is available here. Some days are already filled but we still need your help!!! The Foundation is in need of volunteers to run our booth. Please consider donating two hours of your time and manning our booth over the summer. Materials and training are provided. Its a great way to get out, enjoy the sunshine, and some great music. For local university students as well as supervised high school students, you can earn service hours. For more information please call our office at (757) 597-2842 or email amanda@newportnewsgreenfoundation.org. We need your help!
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