Community Service: Oceanside & Open Door
The Rockport Garden Club Service Committee provides services to both Oceanside Rehabilitation and Nursing Center, formerly Den Mar Center and to The Open Door which provides food and hospitality.
At Oceanside Rehabilitation and Nursing Center, garden club members arrange baskets of flowers for the dining room and nurses’ stations both for Mother’s Day and for the Christmas holiday season.
At The Open Door, we host and serve dinners each year for those seeking a meal in an inviting social setting. Garden club volunteers provide and serve the meal which includes salad fixings and delicious homemade dessert bars as well as a delicious entree.
Our service efforts are enthusiastically received by both Oceanside Rehabilitation and Nursing Center and The Open Door.
2023 Update:
The Rockport Garden Club Community Services Committee provides services to the Open Door in Gloucester, Oceanside Health and Rehabilitation Center, Rockport Council on Aging and Senior housing at both the Old Rockport High School and Pigeon Cove Ledges.
We were able to help the Open Door with Sort Food Donations we had 4 volunteers plus Leslie and myself who helped. We had to count the food donations (how many jars of peanut butter), Recording inventory of each donation,stocking items onto the correct shelves . We are supposed to fill their flower boxes before November 4th because they are having a Grand Opening that day on Saturday. To show off their new Nutrition Center. Hopefully, we were told we (RGC) would be on the top of the list to serve dinners.
We were able to have flower arranging on Friday, July 14, at the Old High School Senior Housing, only 6 signed up. So we made 1 for Oceanview in Gloucester, 2 for Oceanside H & R in Rockport and the rest of the containers for people who were really ill, another had a birthday. Somebody got containers to make flower arrangements for their friends who couldn't be there that day. It was a kind and giving class. The next class is on Friday, October 27th at Pigeon Cove Ledges. We already have 5 volunteers to help w ith this class.
Respectfully submitted,
Pamela M. Lane, Community Service Chair