On July 9, a breakfast on the grounds was hosted at Westbury Community Garden to honor the many volunteers that have helped us keep the garden moving forward during the trying times of the COVID pandemic.
The breakfast featured a luscious fruit salad, pastries, and breads from a generous H-E-B donation, bagels and coffee from Panera Bread (West University Cafe), and breakfast tacos from Best Donuts donated by WAIC/WCG Treasurer, Marcia Hartman. Garden members also brought coffee cake and herbal teas.
Many 2021-22 volunteer groups were acknowledged by WCG President, Wayne Slaikeu.
2021
- KIPP Mosaic School
- Hightower High School
- Village School
- Ideal Daughters of Light #5
- Boy Scout Troop 549 (Zane Bennett Eagle Project)
- Kincaid School
- Boy Scout Troop 99
- Christ Embassy Houston Church
- Bellaire High School National Honor Society
- Emery Weiner High School
- Houston International Jaycees
2022
- Texas Women’s University
- Ohio state University Club of Houston
- Teach For America
- Bellaire High School National Honor Society
- Boy Scout Troop 549 – Case Bennett Eagle Project
- Boy Scout Troop 740 – Burke Klingensmith Eagle Project
- Amerigo Education / St Pius X High School
- Sysco
- MIT Alumni
Garden co-founder and WAIC President, Becky Edmondson, read a quote from author Louise Erdrich’s novel, The Sentence, that aptly describes what a special place Westbury Community Garden is to the Westbury community. “It was more than a place, it was a nexus, a mission, a work of art, a calling, a sacred craziness, a slice of eccentricity, a collection of good people who shifted and rearranged but cared deeply about the same one thing…”
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