{"id":34796,"date":"2009-07-08T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-07-08T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/2009\/07\/08\/garden-walk-back-in-ful-force\/"},"modified":"2009-07-08T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-07-08T05:00:00","slug":"garden-walk-back-in-ful-force","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/2009\/07\/08\/garden-walk-back-in-ful-force\/","title":{"rendered":"Garden Walk back in &#8216;ful&#8217; force"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\"><p><TABLE border=\"0\" width=\"360\" cellspacing=\"5\" cellpadding=\"3\" align=\"right\"><br \/>\n<TR><br \/>\n<TD><br \/>\n<TABLE border=\"1\" width=\"350\" cellspacing=\"1\" cellpadding=\"5\" bgcolor=\"d7d6d1\"><br \/>\n<TR><br \/>\n<TD><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">\n<font face=\"arial\"><br \/>\n<B><br \/>\nShots from the gardens<br \/>\n<\/B><br \/>\n<BR><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">\n<font face=\"arial\" size=\"2\"><br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" align=\"center\" src=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/slideShow\/index.gne?group_id=&#038;user_id=8414512@N05&#038;set_id=72157621101163682&#038;tags=Cars,Lotus,Exige\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"350\" height=\"325\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n<BR><br \/>\n<B>Above is a photo slideshow with images from the June 14 Munroe-Meyer Institute Garden Walk.<br \/>\n<\/B><br \/>\n<\/P><br \/>\n<\/FONT><br \/>\n<\/TD><br \/>\n<\/TR><br \/>\n<\/TABLE><br \/>\n<\/TD><br \/>\n<\/TR><br \/>\n<\/TABLE>I sat in the board room at the Munroe-Meyer Institute when the news was announced.<\/p>\n<p>Choking back tears, an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mmiGuild.com\" target=\"_blanK\" rel=\"noopener\">MMI Guild<\/a> member made it official.<\/p>\n<p>After 40 straight years, there would be no garden walk in 2008.<\/p>\n<p>The room fell silent. No one knew what to say.<\/p>\n<p>The event had seemed like a well-oiled machine. Why wouldn&#8217;t it work this year?<\/p>\n<p>Truth is, it was a combination of unfortunate circumstances that I won&#8217;t go into, because it&#8217;s irrelevant now.<\/p>\n<p>The mood was somber that day in the boardroom, but by the next monthly meeting, the cloud had lifted.<\/p>\n<p>Already the guild had begun work on 2009&#8217;s Garden Walk. With each month, the excitement and enthusiasm grew.<\/p>\n<p>To say the Garden Walk was back in &#8220;full&#8221; force on Sunday, June 14, would not be an overstatement.<\/p>\n<p>At the gardens, I heard the words, &#8220;beauty-ful, wonder-ful and color-ful&#8221; over and over. One woman uttered quite the compliment when she said Dr. Frederic Ogren&#8217;s yard rivaled Omaha&#8217;s Lauritzen Gardens.<\/p>\n<p><TABLE border=\"0\" width=\"360\" cellspacing=\"5\" cellpadding=\"3\" align=\"right\"><br \/>\n<TR><br \/>\n<TD><br \/>\n<TABLE border=\"1\" width=\"350\" cellspacing=\"1\" cellpadding=\"5\" bgcolor=\"d7d6d1\"><br \/>\n<TR><br \/>\n<TD><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">\n<font face=\"arial\"><br \/>\n<B><br \/>\nA word of thanks<br \/>\n<\/B><br \/>\n<BR><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">\n<font face=\"arial\" size=\"2\"><br \/>\nThe guild would like to thank the following homeowners for participating in the Garden Walk:<br \/>\n<UL><LI>Jim and Robin Griess;<br \/>\n<LI>Dave and Bonnie Looman;<br \/>\n<LI>Dr. Frederic Ogren;<br \/>\n<LI>Tom and Mimi Ramsbottom; and<br \/>\n<LI>Larry and Penny Rosso.<\/UL><br \/>\n<\/B><br \/>\n<\/P><br \/>\n<\/FONT><br \/>\n<\/TD><br \/>\n<\/TR><br \/>\n<\/TABLE><br \/>\n<\/TD><br \/>\n<\/TR><br \/>\n<\/TABLE>More than 1,500 green thumbs from Nebraska and Iowa came out to appreciate the beauty of nature on a sunny, 70 degree day that was supposed to bring scattered showers.<\/p>\n<p>Advance and day of ticket sales along with corporate donations garnered more than $35,000 for research and programs at MMI for children and adults with developmental disabilities.<\/p>\n<p>These events don&#8217;t pull themselves off. It takes hours upon hours to make them look effortless. And the guild really outdid itself this year.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a great feeling to be happy for someone else and I couldn&#8217;t be happier for the members of the guild. Their relentless determination to bring back an event that the entire community looks forward to each year truly paid off.<\/p>\n<p>I can only imagine what next year will be like.<\/p>\n<div style=\"display: none;\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"\/secure-location.php\" title=\"QdqkQzg\">QdqkQzg<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I sat in the board room at the Munroe-Meyer Institute when the news was announced. Choking back tears, an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mmiGuild.com\" target=\"_blanK\" rel=\"noopener\">MMI Guild<\/a> member made it official. 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