Sierra Desert Garden Club gives FISH $500 for Carson City veterans housing complex landscaping
The Sierra Desert Garden Club presented Jim Peckham of Friends in Service Helping, also known as FISH, with a check for $500. The club selected FISH to receive the restricted award to go toward a tree or landscaping at the new 39-unit Richard's Crossing housing complex on Jeanell Drive in Carson City that are reserved for homeless military veterans. The remainder of the units are open to non-veterans.
Presiding over the presentation and meeting President Susan McAfee also inducted the new officers for 2017: President, Susan Crowell; First Vice President of Membership, Kari Jones; Second Vice President of Programs, Genevieve Frederick & Elaine Baker; Secretary, Terri Horgan and Susie Coombs; and Treasurer, Andrea Touyarot.
Since 1977, the Sierra Desert Garden Club has 25 members that meet nine times during the year to learn about various gardening and landscaping techniques plus the many varieties of seasonal plants and flowers, both ornamental and edible.