Eggleston Services Calendar Events

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Start Date End Date Title Event Location

Friday, July 04, 2008 Friday, July 04, 2008 Ask The Expert WTAR 850AM

Saturday, July 12, 2008 Saturday, July 12, 2008 Auto Auction Eggleston Auto Reconditioning Center - 7433 Sewells Point Rd., Norfolk, VA

Friday, July 18, 2008 Friday, July 18, 2008 Ask The Expert WTAR 850AM

Saturday, July 26, 2008 Saturday, July 26, 2008 Auto Auction Eggleston Auto Reconditioning Center - 7433 Sewells Point Rd., Norfolk, VA

Friday, August 01, 2008 Friday, August 01, 2008 Ask The Expert WTAR 850AM

Saturday, August 09, 2008 Saturday, August 09, 2008 Auto Auction Eggleston Auto Reconditioning Center - 7433 Sewells Point Rd., Norfolk, VA

Friday, August 15, 2008 Friday, August 15, 2008 Ask The Expert WTAR 850AM

Saturday, August 23, 2008 Saturday, August 23, 2008 Auto Auction Eggleston Auto Reconditioning Center - 7433 Sewells Point Rd., Norfolk, VA

6th Annual Civitan Acres Charity Golf Tournament - Friday May 2, 2008

Eggleston Services presents the 6th Annual Civitan Acres Charity Golf Classic to benefit the Civitan Acres for the Disabled Summer Camp.

Tournament Information

We invite you to join us, as a tournament sponsor or individual golfer, to support our Civitan Acres for the Disabled, providing services to children and adults with disabilities in our community.

Location/date:
Friday May 2, 2008
Bide-A-Wee Golf Course
Curtis Strange Signature Course
Portsmouth, VA

Tournament Registration
Please have returned by April 25, 2008 to:

Civitan Acres for the Disabled
2210 Cedar Road
Chesapeake, VA 23323
Phone: (757)487-6062

Make checks payable to Eggleston Services

Download Registration Form

Game Day Registration and Practice Balls:
11:00 am (rain or shine)

Golf Tournament Begins:
Noon - Shotgun start

Cinco de Mayo Fiesta Party :
Saturday May 3, 2008 at Civitan Acres
2:00 - 6:00 pm

Prizes:
Prizes will be awarded to the 1st, 2nd, and last teams. Also we will have a "closest to the pin" contest and a "hole in one" contest.

Entry Fee:

$100 individual player
Entry fee includes green fees, cart, range balls, and awards dinner.

Sponsorship Opportunities

Platinum Sponsor - $2500

Company sign at assigned hole
Recognition at awards ceremony
Be a guest on Eggleston's "Ask the Expert" Radio Show on WTAR
Team of Four

Gold Sponsor - $1500

Company sign at assigned hole
Recognition at awards ceremony
Be a guest on Eggleston's "Ask the Expert" Radio Show on WTAR
Team of Four

Silver Sponsor - $1000

Company sign at assigned hole
Recognition at awards ceremony
Team of Four

Beverage Cart Sponsor - $500

Company name on beverage cart
Recognition at awards ceremony

Hole Sponsor - $300

Company name on sign at hole
Recognition at awards ceremony

Range Ball Sponsor - $300

Sponsor pre-tournament practice balls
Recognition at awards ceremony

Directions:
From Norfolk/Virginia Beach
Take I-264 west (through the downtown tunnel) to Victory Blvd., Exit #3.
Turn left on Victory Blvd., go 3 lights to Greewood Drive.
Turn left onto Greenwood Drive. Golf Course is on the right.
(757)393-8600

53 office volunteers spruce up camp that serves disabled

53 office volunteers spruce up camp that serves disabled
By Kristi Kastrounis
The Virginian-Pilot
    The directors of Civitan Acres, a 14-acre camp and wellness center that serves mentally and physically disabled adults, say maintaining the property is a never-ending task.
    That’s why they were so grateful last week when 53 volunteers from HSBC, an international financial services company with offices in Chesapeake and Virginia Beach, deployed to the Old Cedar Road complex to landscape the grounds, repaint cabins and lay brick pavers to improve wheelchair access. The helping hands were part of the 16th annual United Way Day of Caring, which was held locally and across the nation Sept. 7.
    Civitan Acres was one of eight projects in Chesapeake,
and the HSBC employees were among 179 volunteers involved in the dozen good deeds. The work was organized by the United Way of South Hampton Roads to help member agencies.
    Civitan Acres is a United Way agency and is not a publicly funded camp, said Dave Wilber, senior vice president and chief operations officer of Eggleston Services, which manages the camp and oversees the property.
    This summer, Civitan Acres hosted 180 total campers during seven, one-week sessions that involved overnight stays. It also offers services from 10 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. weekdays year-round.
    “The camp uses a lot of our funds from United Way to provide scholarships for campers,” Wilber said.
    Many of the adults who attend Civitan Acres come from low-income families and can’t afford to participate as weekly campers or in an overnight weeklong camp during the summer, he said. Money to operate the camp year-round is raised primarily through two events each May – a Cinco de Mayo celebration and a golf tournament.
    Megan Hurt, the camp’s general manager and a certified therapeutic recreation specialist, said the best way for the community to support Civitan Acres is to attend those fundraisers. It’s nice, too, when volunteers like those from HSBC show up periodically to help.
    It’s been three years since the camp has had Day of Caring volunteers show up there, said Hurt, who planned and prepped for the projects by providing materials, lunches and drinks for the volunteers.
    HSBC spreads its efforts among a variety of projects and doesn’t limit its volunteerism to one day a year.
    “Every year we do this, and we have no shortage of volunteers,” said Shane Herrell, senior manager of e-business marketing at HSBC. “If you went to any of our other offices, you’d see the same thing.”
    HSBC also has participated in Clean the Bay Day, Paint Your Heart Out, Junior Achievement and collected school supplies for Southwestern Elementary School.
    “Being good corporate stewards is a big thing in our company,” said HSBC employee Maggie Hogan.
Other volunteer projects
Civitan Acres was one of eight project sites in Chesapeake for the United Way’s Day of Caring. Volunteers from the following organizations also helped at these United Way agencies:

• Southeastern Virginia Training Center – 10 volunteers from BAE and 20 from Checkered Flag Motor Car Co.

• YMCA (North Greenbrier) – 10 volunteers from Chesapeake RDHA and 15 volunteers from LTD Management

• Meals on Wheels of Chesapeake – 4 volunteers from City of Chesapeake and 20 volunteers from N.Y. Times

• Children’s Harbor – 15 volunteers from Sentara
• Girls, Inc. – 10 volunteers from Sentara

• Chesapeake Division of Social Services – 10 volunteers from Target (Hickory)

• Chesapeake Care Clinic – 15 volunteers from Chesapeake General Hospital

Angela West graduates from Old Dominion University

Angela West

photo by Laura Elizabeth Pohl

Congratulations to Angela West on her recent graduation from Old Dominion University. Angela, 22, originally came to Eggleston as a participant in our Civitan Acres summer camp. After reading an article about college graduates with disabilities she decided to attend college and work for her degree. Once she set her sights on her major, Therapeutic Recreation, she returned to Civitan Acres to do her internship. She has been terrific to work with, and always inspiring. Sheryn Milton, ODU's director of disabled services, said: "What she's done has been amazing. It's not just what she's done, it's how she's done it. What she has given back to us has been incredible."

We wish Angela the best of luck in her furure endevours.

Michael Parker named Eggleston’s Associate of the Year

Michael Parker with Civitan Acres Staff

Michael Parker was named Eggleston’s Associate of the Year during the 2006 Annual Meeting and Board of Directors meeting held on October 26TH. Board members, Eggleston staff, and Michael’s friends and family members applauded as Michael was presented with a certificate of recognition, and a check for $100.

Michael began attending the day program at Civitan Acres a little more than a year ago. He has also been through many life changing events during this time including the loss of a parent, and moving from the home he grew up in into a residential facility. Through it all, Michael showed great strength and arrived each day at Civitan with a smile on his face, ready to participate in whatever each new day brought him.

Civitan Acres staff members have noticed that Michael has increased his communication skills, and is becoming much more social. He has also improved his fine motor skills and now enjoys participating in arts and crafts.

Michael’s new goal is to receive a motorized wheelchair that will allow him to move freely without the assistance of anyone.

Civitan Acres recieves their Three Year Accreditation from the American Camping Association

This summer, Civitan Acres went through a stringent review of their camp and vacation services by the American Camping Association. Congrats to Meghan, Karen and the Civitan Staff for demonstrating their commitment to the ACA accreditation standards. Like other accreditations we seek, going through the ACA process helps us to strengthen our services. ACA Accreditation educates camp directors in the administration of key aspects of camp operation, program quality, and the health and safety of campers and staff. The ACA establishes guidelines for needed policies, procedures, and practices and assists the public in selecting camps that meet industry-accepted and government-recognized standards.

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Tanners Creek Horticultural Services and Creekside hold successful Grand Opening

Tanners Creek Horticultural Services and Creekside hold successful Grand Opening April 28-30, 2006

The weather was perfect, spirits were high and sales were brisk which made for a hugely successful Grand Opening! The purpose of the event was to publicize the move of Tanners Creek Horticultural Services from the Granby Street location to the current location at 110 LaValette Ave. This new location makes us the largest Garden Center in Norfolk. We’ve also introduced the public to the Creekside Café, The first Garden Center Café in Southside Hampton Roads!

Customers attending the grand opening were given 10% off all merchandise. To help educate the public, we had representatives from Wild Delight bird feed, Bonide garden chemicals, Rich Earth soil enhancement, the Hampton Roads Butterfly Society and literature from Nauticus and NOAA. Local artists were on hand to display their crafts and representatives from the Norfolk Botanical Gardens and the Virginia Zoo were in attendance as well.

Children’s activities were provided by our Tanners Creek staff, and we conducted over a dozen raffle drawings and free giveaways throughout the weekend! Musical entertainment was provided by Lawrence Lambert of Big Wide Grin and Serenity Now.

ALFRED MIDGETT JOINS EGGLESTON SERVICES BOARD OF DIRECTORS

NORFOLK, Va. – Eggleston Services, a not-for-profit organization that provides job training and work opportunities for persons with disabilities, has added Alfred Midgett to its board of directors as a Lead Hampton Roads Board Partner.

Alfred Midgett Midgett is a regional manager with WaterFurnace International and is the Virginia Beach resident who formed the Robin Hoods of Virginia Beach, a local charitable club known for performing noble deeds in Hampton Roads over the last ten years.

“Al is a great example of a local citizen giving of himself in order to help others,” says Paul Atkinson, CEO of Eggleston Services. “We appreciate his enthusiasm and dedication and look forward to his participation on Eggleston’s board.”

The Lead Hampton Roads program is an innovative leadership development program developed by the Hampton Roads Chamber foundation. The program’s purpose is to match active, well-informed and skilled business leaders with local charitable organizations.

Eggleston Services was created in 1955 and supports the growth, development, and independence of people with disabilities through education, rehabilitation programs and work opportunities. Over the last 50 years, Eggleston Services has grown from a five-person operation in 1955 to an organization that benefits more than 600 people. Eggleston Services operates a number of business units including secure document destruction, business fulfillment services, custodial and landscaping services, food service, an auto donation unit, laundry services and a retail nursery.

For more information about Eggleston Services call Tom Redmond at 757-858-8011

EGGLESTON SERVICES OPENS SECURE DOCUMENT DESTRUCTION BUSINESS

EGGLESTON SERVICES OPENS SECURE DOCUMENT DESTRUCTION BUSINESS
New business line to employ up to 20 people with disabilities in Hampton Roads

NORFOLK, Va. – Eggleston Services, a not-for-profit organization that provides job training and work opportunities for people with disabilities, has opened a new business unit specializing in secure document shredding and recycling services. Eggleston Document Destruction will serve businesses throughout the Hampton Roads region and work begins immediately on a regional contract for shredding and document destruction for a significant federal government agency.

Eggleston launched the business in response to customer demand for secure document destruction. Eggleston Document Destruction meets or exceeds industry standards established by the National Association of Information Destruction, which is particularly important for customers that must meet strict laws and regulations that protect privacy.

It is expected that the new business unit will initially provide 10-20 new jobs to people with disabilities. “We are excited about this new employment opportunity for the people we serve and as an additional service line we can offer businesses in the region,” says Paul Atkinson, CEO of Eggleston Services.” Eggleston Services was created in 1955 to support the growth, development, and independence of people with disabilities through education, rehabilitation programs and work opportunities. Over the last 50 years, Eggleston Services has grown from a five- person operation in 1955 to an organization that benefits more than 600 people. Eggleston Services operates a number of business units including business fulfillment services, custodial and landscaping services, food service, an auto donation unit, laundry services and a retail nursery.

For more information about Eggleston Services call Tom Redmond at 757-858-8011

Holiday Trees Arriving at Tanners Creek Retail Center

If you’re one of those folks who likes to put up your holiday decorations in time for Thanksgiving, then we have some exciting news for you:
SIX HUNDRED freshly cut holiday trees will be arriving at the new Tanners Creek Retail Center on Monday, November 21 ST!
FRESH trees are the best and in response to the public’s requests at last year’s sale, we have increased the number of LARGE trees available for sale this year.
Prices will range from about $35.99 for smaller trees, up to $129.99 for the REALLY BIG ones – between 8 and 12 feet tall! Holiday wreaths and rope garland will be on sale, as well.
The Retail Center will be open from 10:00 – 6:00 on November 25 TH (day after Thanksgiving) and will also begin their new holiday hours that day, as follows:
Monday – Friday 11:00 – 7:00
Saturdays 10:00 – 8:00
Sundays 12:00 – 6:00
Folks are encouraged to come shop early for the best selection! The Tanners Creek Retail Center is located at 110 LaValette Avenue, at the intersection of LaValette Avenue and 38 TH Street in Norfolk, and their phone number is 625-2044.
Help support adults with disabilities this Holiday season by shopping at the NEW Tanners Creek Retail Center. We hope to see you soon!