{"id":36,"date":"2016-02-07T04:24:25","date_gmt":"2016-02-07T04:24:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/biz186.inmotionhosting.com\/~issaqu7\/?page_id=36"},"modified":"2026-02-13T04:54:18","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T04:54:18","slug":"projects","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/technostic.org\/issgardenclub\/projects\/","title":{"rendered":"Projects"},"content":{"rendered":"<h6><\/h6>\n<h6><strong>Avamere Rehabilitation\u00a0<\/strong><br \/>\n805 Front Street South<br \/>\nIssaquah, WA 98027<\/h6>\n<p>Garden Therapy. Several times a year for different Holidays such as Thanksgiving, Valentines Day and Easter, IGC members meet at the care center and make holiday flower arrangements for the resident dining tables. Resident participation is encouraged.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h6>Bellevue Botanical Garden, Native Plant Garden<br \/>\n12001 Main Street<br \/>\nBellevue, WA 98005<\/h6>\n<p>IGC members volunteer to weed and clean out the Native Discovery Garden several times a year and plant native plants when needed. IGC also gives a donation each year.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h6><strong>Issaquah Food Bank<\/strong><br \/>\n179 1st Ave. S.E.<br \/>\nIssaquah, WA 98027<\/h6>\n<p>Members are encouraged to bring money donations to each Garden Club meeting. The club then writes one check to the food bank.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h6><strong>Blue Star Memorial By-Way Marker<\/strong><br \/>\n74 NE Creek Way<br \/>\nIssaquah, WA 98027<\/h6>\n<p>The Issaquah Garden Club &#8216;Blue Star Memorial By-Way&#8217; maker is located at Issaquah Veterans Memorial Park next to the Issaquah Valley Senior Center and was dedicated with a ceremony on Veteran&#8217;s Day, November 12, 2007. The IGC Blue Star Marker is decorated with flowers and a small flag by garden club members four times a year; Memorial Day, Flag Day, Independence Day and Veteran&#8217;s Day.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h6><strong>Plant a Tree Program<\/strong><\/h6>\n<p>At every Issaquah Garden Club meeting, a basket is passed to collect money for the NGC-Plant a Tree Program. Each $68 collected is contributed to a Penny Pine Plantation as part of the cost of replanting replacement trees indigenous to a particular damaged area. IGC has directed their collected funds to the Wenatchee National Forest in Washington State which has had several devastating fires in recent years.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h6><strong>Issaquah Post Office Beautification, 400 NW Gilman\u00a0<\/strong>Bed, Issaquah 98027<strong>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/h6>\n<p>In the fall of 2020, in conjunction with Issaquah Rotary Club, we participated in an Issaquah Post Office Beautification project. We purchased and planted a water trough near the front door of the Post Office (see photo in Gallery). This is an on-going project with monthly checks and weeding and new soil &amp; plants when needed.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Click on Bellevue Botanical Garden \u00a0link below to view their web page:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bellevuebotanical.org\/\">Bellevue Botanical Garden<\/a><br \/>\nMain Street, Bellevue, WA.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Avamere Rehabilitation\u00a0 805 Front Street South Issaquah, WA 98027 Garden Therapy. Several times a year for different Holidays such as Thanksgiving, Valentines Day and Easter, IGC members meet at the care center and make holiday flower arrangements for the resident dining tables. Resident participation is encouraged. &nbsp; Bellevue Botanical Garden, Native Plant Garden 12001 Main Street Bellevue, WA 98005 IGC members volunteer to weed and clean out the Native Discovery Garden several times a year and plant native plants when needed. IGC also gives a donation each year. &nbsp; Issaquah Food Bank 179 1st Ave. S.E. Issaquah, WA 98027 Members are encouraged to bring money donations to each Garden Club meeting. The club then writes one check to the food bank. &nbsp; Blue Star Memorial By-Way Marker 74 NE Creek Way Issaquah, WA 98027 The Issaquah Garden Club &#8216;Blue Star Memorial By-Way&#8217; maker is located at Issaquah Veterans Memorial Park&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-36","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/technostic.org\/issgardenclub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/36","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/technostic.org\/issgardenclub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/technostic.org\/issgardenclub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technostic.org\/issgardenclub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technostic.org\/issgardenclub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36"}],"version-history":[{"count":31,"href":"https:\/\/technostic.org\/issgardenclub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/36\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1988,"href":"https:\/\/technostic.org\/issgardenclub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/36\/revisions\/1988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/technostic.org\/issgardenclub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}