Donations in memory of **Peg**

[ZmbGirl]

I wanted to share the great message I got from MNJack about our idea about setting up a paypal account for a plant in memory of **Peg**:

“Thanks to all of the members of this site for the thoughtful idea. I am not sure what my plans will be, so getting a plant would be tricky. If I get one in Canada and then move back home to Minnesota, I won’t be able to take it across the border. The reverse also presents a problem. If the members of this site want to do something that would honor Peg’s memory, have them donate something to a local food shelf, women’s center, or homeless shelter. When Peg and I married we agreed that we would not give each other expensive gifts but would instead donate something to the House of Lazarus (an organization that runs a food shelf and thrift store in the village of Mountain, Ontario).

Before we married, Peg was living on her various pensions and a little money she earned through a local county agency that paid her to drive people to hospital appointments - her ex-husband was supposed to pay alimony, but he reneged on their agreement. She had to watch every penny to ensure that she could heat the house and eat every month. Even so, she always found something to donate to House of Lazarus and was free with her time to help others. It would be a fitting tribute to the kind, generous, compassionate woman that was Peg if the members of this site (many of whom, in my experience, are much like Peg in spirit) would help those who are in need.”
I think the best thing to do would make donations in your own communities. This way, around the country (and world!) people will know of **Peg**’s generosity. I think what we can do is make a website about where we’ve made donations and make it in memory of **Peg**. So if you would like to participate you can repost here the places that you’ve donated to in memory of **Peg** and I will make a website with all of your names and donations on it (and where). I will then post it here on the site and we can all go to the website whenever we want to!

Thanks to MNJack for such a lovely message!

[onewhocares]

Thank you for sharing this message. I shall indeed donate to our local food pantry in time for Easter Baskets in Pegs name.

Belle in Boston

[Long Duck Dong]

I already give generously to a number of organizations ( strictly ones that give back to the community that we live in, rather than ones that need money to support their crusade against issues in the world ).... so I think that I can rustle up some plants to donate to the local community gardens, some tools so they can replace the ones lost to vandals and thieves....
and definitely a hug or 12 for the elderly LGBT in my area that need to know that they still matter and their words are of value.....

and planting a tree in honor of peg is definately on the menu.... its something that a group of my friends and I have done over the years, planting a native tree to create a grove where people can sit and relax, surrounded by a living memorium of the ones that we have loved. befriended, cared for and lost... and amongst those trees is one for my sister, skye who also knew **peg** so its only fitting that a tree is planted in honor of **peg** as my sister would have wanted.....

[Cherokee_Mountaincat]

Very cool Darlings. I think planting a plant or tree would make her smile down happily..:}
Cat

[12voltyV2.0]

I have a friend who helped start one of the only homeless shelters in the northern Kentucky area, in those counties along the Ohio River that are across from Cincinnati. The shelter has grown in the last few years and I and my family have given generously to them over the years, and I am about to make one of my regular yearly donations to the shelter. I will make this one in her honor---does anyone know her full name???? If you do--let me know on here--I will add you as a friend and you can send me a private message via the site's message system.

The shelter is called the Emergency Shelter of Northern Kentucky located in Covington, Kentucky. They are being forced to move from the county owned building they have been in since their inception and even though they have finally gotten some funding from the both the state and the local counties it serves, they still are always tight for funds so I think this is a good place to make such a donation. Kind of ironic that a homeless shelter is it self going to be without a place to "call home."

What is cool about the shelter, they have become affiliated with the local archidiosese of the Catholic Church, with members of local parishes giving generously and they have teamed up with one of the academic departments at the University of Northern Kentucky---with students in some social services areas providing bodies to work in the shelter and doing therapy for the "clients" of the shelter--they gather statistics about the sort of people they help and best of all---created a program that helps people "get back on their feet" with something like over 250 of them have gotten off the streets, back into jobs and housing, along with getting treatment if necessary for substance abuse, and help for getting the kids back in school to and channeling families into programs both public and private to help families facing homelessness.

Needless to say----since "the crash" back in 08-09---the population of those on the streets---with many being entire families jumped dramatically.

I have done some volunteering at the shelter and it breaks your heart to see so many young couples with young kids in this predicament and it is also a sad fact---so many of the single homeless men are Vets for nearly all our conflicts--so the shelter also works with the VA to get the Vets into programs they have along these lines to help them and that is having success too.

http://www.emergencyshelternky.org