August 2013
Zack's Place Newsletter
 
Greetings!

 Zack's Place has breaking news! Be sure to read through our newsletter for information on our big announcement!
Also in August, Zack's Place goes to Circus Camp, Time to sign up for the Turkey Trot, ZP performing at Norman Williams Library, and our August Calendar.
  

A Permanent Home for Zack's Place  
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ZACK'S PLACE ANNOUNCES CAPITAL CAMPAIGN KICK OFF

 

Zack's Place Enrichment Center, Inc. is thrilled to announce their capital campaign kick-off to raise $442,000 to purchase the building in which they presently rent space at 73 Central Street in Woodstock, Vermont, together with two nearby parking lots. This is exciting news as it gives Zack's Place a permanent place to operate and it secures the future in a location that is perfect for their needs. This price includes $58,000 of improvements which will maintain the integrity of the building and allow expansion of the rental space on the second floor as well as closing costs.

 

The building has been listed for sale in recent years but the owner has recently advised that before reducing the price considerably in a public offering, he would give Zack's Place the right of first refusal to buy the building at the very favorable rate of $375,000.

 

Our Enrichment Center serves over 50 individuals of all ages with developmental disabilities. We are open Monday through Friday, from 10 A.M. to 5 P.M. and all of our programming is offered free. Our programs, which are often taught by professional instructors, include not only art in many mediums, exercise, yoga, music, and theater, but also a place where people who would otherwise be sitting at home, oftentimes alone, gather, meet new people, enjoy lunch together, and have real friends that include not only the other participants, but members of the community at large. We produce and star in two musicals a year, and also offer adaptive skiing, bicycling, canoeing and horseback riding. All of our operating and program expenses are supported through private grants and donations.

 

Our highly visible, central village location is ideal with easy access, large, bright spaces, a kitchen, and a courtyard where we often sit and work on art projects in good weather. We walk to the town green where many activities are held, to the library, the town hall, and to many local stores which stock and sell our greeting card line created by our very own participant artists.

 

We already have $91,000 of pledged monies toward our goal with $25,000 of those funds being a matching grant which requires our participant families and our board to raise $25,000. This, we are calling our "Family Capital Campaign". We will post a fund raiser "thermometer" on our Zack's Place building to track the success of this campaign.

 

We are also applying for grants for our "bricks and mortar" capital campaign as well as seeking donations large and small from near and far. It is our hope to take title to the building on August 1, 2014, in order to take advantage of the lowest possible purchase price. For every year thereafter, the price increases $25,000 with a cap on our time to close set for four years from now.

 

We have secured a very generous preapproval for a mortgage from Lake Sunapee Savings Bank at a favorable rate; however we must raise 40% of the total needed before this loan would become available.

 

We are thrilled to have this wonderful opportunity to secure a permanent home for Zack's Place.


                
July In Review
In the morning we became songwriters with Susan Gabrielle, we did art with Fiona, we gardened with Martha at Billings Farm, The Elementary School Pal Program came to ZP to do their own greeting card series and we visited Norman Williams Libra
Julia swims with us at the Kedron Pond
ry.
In the mid-day we did art with Fiona, worked out with Bari, went canoeing and kayaking and went horseback riding with Vermont Adaptive. We also went to the Brown Bag concerts, held a luncheon for the golf committee, we were invited by Intern Finn McFarland to Billings Farm for Nature Day and we are going to play putt putt golf.
In the late afternoon we did yoga with Tita and Anne, art with Fiona, went to Carl Hurds house and had a picnic and went down the slip and slide, played croquet with Sarah, watched a movie with Kitty, sang with Kerry Rosenthal, did music movement with Mark and Kathleen, danced like crazy with Angel. We also visited the market on the green, did journal writing with Caryn Golden, read books with Anthea LaVallee, Tom Wright, Phil Swanson and Ron Jaynes
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Erin gets ready to Kayak
Finn McFarland sets up a nature day at Billings Farm
Sarah helps her friends from Pal
The Pal Program makes greeting cards
Michael on a treasure hunt at Marsh Billings Forest
Jessie is really working hard at kayaking
Look at Michael in the Canoe
 
 

 

Shauna playing water games with Carl Hud

Look at Dan canoe. He can really paddle.
Oh boy here we go Jessa and Erin hang on to your flip flops!
Timid little Karrissa. Not!
Corey does not want get off the horse!
Carl and Joyce Hurd host an awesome cookout, slip and slide and Ice Cream day.
Michael loves to ride!
Three bathing beauties!
Wow Corey is this really ok?
             
Great Summer Volunteers at ZP
Zack's Place has been fortunate to have awesome high school and college volunteers! We have a newly painted art room and volunteers have joined us for our weekly programs. It is a really fun volunteer job.
  
           
Bailey Gannon and Katie Miller dance and sing with Susan.
Jadie Dow addressed envelopes, did computer work and what ever else we needed.
Katie Miller hangs out with Sarah
 
Greg Selbo, Graham Jameson, Sam Matel and Lizzie Miller give the Art Room a Fresh Coat of Paint

Abby Jameson with us for the second summer in a row does everything at ZP

 

Click Here for a printable August Calendar

      

A Community Enrichment Center for People
with Special Needs

www.ZacksPlaceVT.org
73 Central St, P.O. Box 634 Woodstock, VT     05091
802-457-5868
Info@ZacksPlaceVT.org

 

 

 

 

 

 

Note: When we are on a field trip, programs are only at the place of the field trip so Zack's Place is otherwise closed. Please be sure to check the calendar and look for the bold type, which indicates a field trip. Bus trips are underlined, walking trips are not.

 

 

 

        

      

 

 

 

 

~ August 2013 ~

 

Sun

Mon

Tue

Wed

Thu

Fri

Sat

 

 

 

 

 

1

10:00 Pal greeting card program

 

12:00 Brown Bag Concert

 

1:00 Pot holder weaving

 

3:00 Art w/ Fiona

 

4:15 Reading w/ Ron

2

10:00 Library

 

11:30 Horseback riding

 

 

3:00 Singing w/ Kerry

3

 

4

 

5

10:00 Boating on The River with Norm and Dail

 

4:00 Journaling w/ Caryn Golden

6

11:00 Gardening w/ Martha & picnic at Billings Farm

 

1:00 Dance Crazy w/ Tiffany

 

3:00 Yoga w/ Anne

 

4:15 Reading w/ Tom Wright

7

10:00 Deliver Pentangle Posters

 

11:30A Canoe and Kayak and Picnic

 

3:00 Everybody's a songwriter Susan Gabrielle

8

10:30 Greeting cards w/ Shauna

 

12PM-Brown Bag Concert

 

1:00 Cooking w/ Dail

 

3:00 Art w/ Fiona

 

4:15 Reading w/ Ron

 

9

10:00 Library

 

11:30 Cycling

 

3:30 Singing w/ Kerry

10

 

11

 

12

10:30 Circus Camp at Union Arena -Return at 3PM

 

3:15 Yoga w/ Anne

 

4:15 Reading w/ Lois Watson

13

10:30 Circus Camp at Union Arena -Return at 3PM

 

 

3:15 Free time

14

10:30 Circus Camp at Union Arena -Return at 3PM

 

3:00 Everybody's a songwriter Susan Gabrielle

15

10:30 Circus Camp at Union Arena -Return at 3PM

 

4:15 Reading w/ Ron

16

10:30 Circus Camp at Union Arena -Return at 3PM

 

3:30 Singing w/ Kerry

17

 

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19

11:00 Singing w/ Jim Yeager

 

1:00 Art w/ Fiona

 

3:00 Yoga w/ Tita

 

4:15 Reading w/ Lois Watson

20

11:00 Gardening w/ Martha & picnic at Billings Farm

 

3:00 Dance Crazy w/ Tiffany

4:15 Reading w/ Anthea

21

10:00 Deliver Pentangle Posters

 

1:00 Harlem Shuffle w/ Sam and Sarah

 

3:00 Everybody's a songwriter Susan Gabrielle

22

10:30 Greeting cards w/ Shauna

 

1:00 Golf Day

 

3:00 Art w/ Fiona

 

4:15 Reading w/ Ron

23

10:00 Library

 

11:30 Cycling

 

3:00 Singing w/ Kerry

24

 

 

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26

11:00 Clean up
           w/ Kitty

 

1:00 Art w/ Fiona

 

3:00 Yoga w/ Tita

 

 

27

11:00 Gardening w/ Martha & picnic at Billings Farm

 

3:00 Dance Crazy w/ Tiffany

 

4:15 Reading w/ Phil Swanson

28

10:00 Deliver Pentangle Posters

 

1:00 "Changing Routines" w/ Angel

 

3:00 Everybody's a songwriter Susan Gabrielle

29

10:30 Greeting cards w/ Shauna

 

12:00 Brown Bag Concert

 

1:00 Fitness w/ Bari

 

3:00 Art w/ Fiona

 

30

10:00 Library

 

11:30 Swim at Britton house

 

3:00 Singing w/ Kerry

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            Thank you for reading our newsletter and we hope you have a wonderful August.
Sincerely,
 

Dail Frates
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