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SE Gardeners Fall Harvest Fest
Sunday, October 4
10am - 3pm
Vet's Park Intergenerational Garden Town
9658 S Marquette (between 96th and 97th)
Potluck meal -- bring something from your garden to share, as well as folding tables and chairs if you have them.
Questions?
Contact Dinah Ramirez, Healthy Southeast Chicago, at healthysouthchicago@yahoo.com or 773-719-3427 or Thea Carlson, Angelic Organics Learning Center, at 773-517-2193 or thea@learngrowconnect.org
As part of the new Armed Services YMCA and Department of Defense Outreach Initiative, the South Chicago YMCA will provide military families with access to youth development, family strengthening, and health and well-being programs. Membership fees will be underwritten by the Department of Defense and administered through Military OneSource, an information and referral service for military families. YMCA of the USA, the national resource office for America’s 2,686 YMCAs, will help launch the initiative at participating YMCAs across the country.
http://www.militaryonesource.com/
The South Chicago YMCA is happy to help meet the critical needs facing families of deployed military service member. Families are the most affected when a loved one gets deployed, so we are deeply committed to providing them with the support they need.
This Outreach Initiative responds to a provision in the National Defense Authorization Act of 2008, which requires the Secretary of Defense to develop a plan to support military family readiness and to ensure that military family readiness programs and activities are available to all military families, including those of the National Guard and Military Reservists.
Eligible military families participating in the initiative are eligible for free YMCA memberships based on participation requirements. Those eligible to participate in the new initiative include:
For more information please contact Ken Steel, Member Relations Director at 773-721-9100
or come by the South Chicago YMCA located at 3039 E. 91st Street