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District IX Garden Clubs of Illinois awards ~ 2022

1st Place 2021 ALL STAR AWARD

1st Place 2021 ALL STAR AWARD

1st Place 2021 ALL STAR AWARD

DISTRICT IX  

GARDEN CLUBS OF ILLINOIS 

 Awarded to our Des Plaines Garden Club

1st Place 2021 YEARBOOK AWARD

1st Place 2021 ALL STAR AWARD

1st Place 2021 ALL STAR AWARD

DISTRICT IX 

GARDEN CLUBS OF ILLINOIS 

Awarded to our Des Plaines Garden Club

 Andrew Goczkowski, Mayor of Des Plaines,

Illinois State Senate ~Certificate of Recognition ~90th year

On November 11, the Des Plaines Garden Club celebrated their 90th year at their annual holiday luncheon.  We were pleased to welcome Senator Laura Murphy of the Illinois State Senate. Senator Murphy issued a Certificate of Recognition to the Des Plaines Garden Club for our 90th Year 1931- 2021. 



Des Plaines Garden Club receives 90th birthday proclamation

Andrew Goczkowski, Mayor of Des Plaines, issued our clubs Anniversary Certificate on June 10th, 202

 During our 90th birthday celebration on June 11th 2021  the City of Des Plaines and the city's Mayor Andrew  Goczkowski.  issued  a Certificate of proclamation to the Des Plaines Garden Club for our 90th Year 1931- 2021. 

  


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2021 DES PLAINES GARDEN CLUB AWARDS

 2021 NATIONAL GARDEN CLUBS, INC. - "CERTIFICATE OF MERIT" Honoring our Des Plaines Garden Club, member of The Garden Club of Illinois, Inc., in Recognition of our 90th Anniversary

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2021 GARDEN CLUB OF ILLINOIS ~ GCI, - #62 CLUB ACHIEVEMENT (Blue) CERTIFICATE

2021 GARDEN CLUB OF ILLINOIS ~ GCI, - #63 "CLUB HORTICULTURE" (SILVER) CERTIFICATE

2021 GARDEN CLUB OF ILLINOIS ~ GCI, - #63 "CLUB HORTICULTURE" (SILVER) CERTIFICATE

PRESENTED TO OUR 

DES PLAINES GARDEN CLUB

BLUE SEAL ~ 2021

2021 GARDEN CLUB OF ILLINOIS ~ GCI, - #63 "CLUB HORTICULTURE" (SILVER) CERTIFICATE

2021 GARDEN CLUB OF ILLINOIS ~ GCI, - #63 "CLUB HORTICULTURE" (SILVER) CERTIFICATE

2021 GARDEN CLUB OF ILLINOIS ~ GCI, - #63 "CLUB HORTICULTURE" (SILVER) CERTIFICATE

PRESENTED TO OUR 

DES PLAINES GARDEN CLUB

SILVER SEAL ~ 2021

2021 THE GARDEN CLUB OF ILLINOIS ~ GCI, - #80 "BEST PRACTICES" AWARD CERTIFICATE

2021 GARDEN CLUBS OF ILLINOIS ~ GCI, - #100 "VIP AWARD PRESENTED TO HAROLD EFFINGER

2021 GARDEN CLUBS OF ILLINOIS ~ GCI, - #100 "VIP AWARD PRESENTED TO HAROLD EFFINGER

  • PRESENTED TO OUR DES PLAINES GARDEN CLUB

"Recruiting New Members"  1ST PLACE ~GOLD SEAL

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RECRUITING NEW MEMBERS 

  • Always necessary, these are some of the ways our Des Plaines Garden Club is involved in the community and promotes our Club.
  • April - for Earth Day members go to two schools and work with second graders promoting gardening.
  • May - is a busy month for our Club. We have a Spring Plant Sale promoted by members displaying signs in their yards, advertising in local papers and on the electronic sign at the Frisbie Senior Center, where the sale is held. Members donate most of the plants. Two local nurseries also donate plants. The sale brings shoppers from many suburbs. Other activities include hosting a program with the Des Plaines Public Library at the Library, as well as participating in the Spring Fun Fair in town, helping children with a planting project.
  • July - our Club has a Garden Walk to six homes, followed by lunch at a restaurant.
  • September - the city has a Fall Family Festival where our Club has a recruiting table. At most of these events, our Club t-shirts are proudly worn to promote our Club.
  • November - is our Des Plaines Garden Club’s Annual Luncheon/Fundraiser at a restaurant and is promoted on the electronic sign at the Frisbie Senior Center, in newspapers and garden magazines. There is a huge raffle with prizes donated by members and many businesses that our Club Members recruit from. There is also a delicious bake sale with homemade goodies donated by our Club Members.
  • Our Des Plaines Garden Club donates to 24 local, state, and national organizations. We also plant and maintain three gardens, one at the Frisbie Senior Center, one at Lake Park where they also installed a Blue Star Marker and bench for our Club’s 75th Anniversary and the third is at the Self-Help Food Pantry. There are also members who go to nursing homes to conduct garden therapy with the residents.
  • Applications for membership are available at all functions our Club attends or mailed to anyone requesting information.
  • Thank you to everyone helping to recruit members, in anyway, at all the events our Club attends and sharing the love of our Garden Club Family all year.

2021 GARDEN CLUBS OF ILLINOIS ~ GCI, - #100 "VIP AWARD PRESENTED TO HAROLD EFFINGER

2021 GARDEN CLUBS OF ILLINOIS ~ GCI, - #100 "VIP AWARD PRESENTED TO HAROLD EFFINGER

2021 GARDEN CLUBS OF ILLINOIS ~ GCI, - #100 "VIP AWARD PRESENTED TO HAROLD EFFINGER

  • Harold has been a member of our Des Plaines Garden Club since 2015. is an extreme asset to our Club. He oftentimes goes above and beyond for the benefit of our Club and its members as a whole. Whenever a request is asked of a member, Harold is always willing to offer his services. The most impressive task was our Club’s recent request to work on upgrading our website. While our Club was in dire need of an upgrade Harold, without hesitation, volunteered. We were so glad he did. Our Club’s website had not been updated for well over two years. It lacked photos and history of events that took place in our Club over the years. Harold worked patiently and tirelessly for several months, coordinating the shutting down of the old website with the former Webmaster and diligently recreated a new website on his own, using input and getting approval from several Board Members. Consequently, our Club’s new Administrator/Webmaster was born. Harold’s expertise as a graphic artist was also invaluable to this project. In addition, Harold linked the website to a Facebook page. The Club has been incredibly impressed with how Harold is constantly updating photos and events both on the website as well as the Facebook page. He has now become known as our Club’s “Social Media guru”. Lastly, Harold deserves the credit for the design of our Club’s Yearbook, celebrating its 90th year anniversary. We, the members of our Des Plaines Garden Club, are pleased and honored to nominate Harold Effinger for the most Very Important Person Award.

2020 DES PLAINES GARDEN CLUB AWARDS

2020 NATIONAL GARDEN CLUB ~ CERTIFICATE OF PARTICIPATON

2020 GARDEN CLUBS OF ILLINOIS ~ GCI -BEST HISTORY FIRST PLACE

2020 GARDEN CLUBS OF ILLINOIS ~ GCI -BEST HISTORY FIRST PLACE

ANNIVERSARY CLUB HISTORY ~ CERTIFICATE OF PARTICIPATION PRESENTED TO OUR DES PLAINES GARDEN CLUB

2020 GARDEN CLUBS OF ILLINOIS ~ GCI -BEST HISTORY FIRST PLACE

2020 GARDEN CLUBS OF ILLINOIS ~ GCI -BEST HISTORY FIRST PLACE

2020 GARDEN CLUBS OF ILLINOIS ~ GCI -BEST HISTORY FIRST PLACE

PRESENTED TO OUR DES PLAINES GARDEN CLUB

2020 GARDEN CLUBS OF ILLINOIS ~ GCI -PRESS BOOKS FIRST PLACE

2020 GARDEN CLUBS OF ILLINOIS ~ GCI -BEST HISTORY FIRST PLACE

2020 GARDEN CLUBS OF ILLINOIS ~ GCI -#62 CLUB ACHIEVEMENT (GOLD)

PRESENTED TO OUR DES PLAINES GARDEN CLUB

2020 GARDEN CLUBS OF ILLINOIS ~ GCI -#62 CLUB ACHIEVEMENT (GOLD)

2019 DISTRICT IX - GARDEN CLUBS OF ILLINOIS ~ GCI -FIRST PLACE LARGE CLUB ALL STAR AWARD

2020 GARDEN CLUBS OF ILLINOIS ~ GCI -#62 CLUB ACHIEVEMENT (GOLD)

PRESENTED TO OUR DES PLAINES GARDEN CLUB

2019 DISTRICT IX - GARDEN CLUBS OF ILLINOIS ~ GCI -YEARBOOK FIRST PLACE

2019 DISTRICT IX - GARDEN CLUBS OF ILLINOIS ~ GCI -FIRST PLACE LARGE CLUB ALL STAR AWARD

2019 DISTRICT IX - GARDEN CLUBS OF ILLINOIS ~ GCI -FIRST PLACE LARGE CLUB ALL STAR AWARD

PRESENTED TO OUR DES PLAINES GARDEN CLUB

2019 DISTRICT IX - GARDEN CLUBS OF ILLINOIS ~ GCI -FIRST PLACE LARGE CLUB ALL STAR AWARD

2019 DISTRICT IX - GARDEN CLUBS OF ILLINOIS ~ GCI -FIRST PLACE LARGE CLUB ALL STAR AWARD

2019 DISTRICT IX - GARDEN CLUBS OF ILLINOIS ~ GCI -FIRST PLACE LARGE CLUB ALL STAR AWARD

PRESENTED TO OUR DES PLAINES GARDEN CLUB

2020 GARDEN CLUBS OF ILLINOIS ~ GCI -#100 VIP AWARD

2020 GARDEN CLUBS OF ILLINOIS ~ GCI -#100 VIP AWARD

2020 GARDEN CLUBS OF ILLINOIS ~ GCI -#100 VIP AWARD

PRESENTED TO MARY PEGLOW PRESIDENT OF OUR DES PLAINES GARDEN CLUB


Mary joined our club in 2013.  She has chaired the Awards & Grants Committee which took a lot of organization for our large club. She promotes our club to the community, being involved with local events such as the Curb Appeal Program, Library programs, Festivals in Des Plaines as well as Memorial Day services. 

During this past year, Mary was challenged with resolving some unsettling issues within the club. Steadfast as she is, Mary pursued every aspect to keep the club informed and resolute, and by doing so, the club is thriving.

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