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Giving Back Recipient: Peru Mission Donation Details: We are again supporting the mission to Peru that Paul Thornton’s former horticulture professor, Dr. Seagle, participates in annually. These folks go to a village and the surrounding mountains, witnessing for God, and providing clothes and blankets for the desperately poor. They particularly focus on the kids in a local orphanage, putting on a vacation Bible school and other fun activities (like taking them to the zoo), doing maintenance on their house, and providing meals and other basics. This year’s trip takes place early in Juneunless, of course, it doesn’t. If The Virus keeps it from happening, all donated money will go to the New Life Children’s Home in Cieneguilla, Peru. Submitted By: Paul Thornton (Peachtree Landscape - Nashville, TN)

Giving Back Recipient: Melissa Peppers Donation Details: Melissa Peppers is mother of crew chief Chris. Some weeks back, we sent aid to a tornado survivor in Tennessee; this time, the disaster is in Alabama. On February 23rd, a tornado dropped a tree on the roof of Melissa’s trailer home, doing significant damage. Melissa, who was recently widowed, is in such a hard place right now. We are sending a donation to help her. Submitted By: Randall Holmes (Landscapes USA - Jacksonville, FL)

Giving Back Recipient: Jenni Loeffler Donation Details: Jenni has surely been responsible for keeping many a person free of The Virus. Jenni in Pittsburgh has been at her sewing machine making masks. She’s made many, many masks, starting with her family of 7, moving on to relatives, friends, and neighbors, and, most recently, to first responders. This she has done in her free timewhich is something all (working) mothers of five have in abundance. According to Jacqui, who received 4 of the masks for her family, Jenni has been working feverishly. Our donation will help her with supplies. She has been buying them herself, without thought of reimbursement. Submitted By: Jacqui Stenglin (LUSA Holdings)

Giving Back Recipient: Jose Ruiz Donation Details: We have an urgent request from the folks in Tennessee. Here is a picture of the home Jose Ruiz and his family just lost in the tornado last week. Their belongings consist of the clothes they had on when the storm hit. We are sending a donation to help them in this tough life chapter they have just entered into! Submitted By: PeachTree Team - Nashville, TN

Giving Back Recipient: Meal Relief Organization Donation Details: This is a giant meal packing party at Jacqui's church. On Sunday, April 19th, 150,000 sustenance meals will be prepared for an organization that assists in relief and development in Haiti, El Salvador, Honduras, and other countries. Our donation covers 4,000 meals. Submitted By: Jacqui Stenglin (LUSA Holdings - Pittsburgh, PA)

Giving Back Recipient: Garza Family Donation Details: Their little daughter, 8 week old Elianna, has developed two tumors. Her parents are awaiting the biopsy report on the first of these. Both are missing work time to be with their baby. Submitted by: Vanessa Gonzalez (LUSA - Austin, TX)

Giving Back Recipient: Dreams Come True of Jacksonville. Donation Details: Its mission is granting wishes to local area kiddos with life-threatening illnesses. Since 1984, more than 4,000 kids have lived their dreams! No child is ever placed on a waiting list, and a full 100% (!) of donations goes directly to wish fulfillment. Submitted By: Scott Dalton (Landscapes USA - Orlando, FL)

Giving Back Recipient: Jeremiah Hartley Donation Details: Jeremiah Hartley formerly worked at PeachTree Landscape as a mechanic, and has maintained friendships with some of our people. He recently had a terrible accident on his motorcycle, requiring an airlift to the hospitaland then the amputation of both his left knee and his left arm. He has also needed surgeries for a broken vertebrae and fractures in his right leg, including tibia, fibula, ankle, and knee. Dialysis is ongoing. Yet to come are more surgeries, prosthetics, rehab, and various home modification. Jeremiah has a wife and four daughters, and has been the family breadwinner. We are sending a donation to help them. Submitted By: PeachTree Landscape Team (LaVergne, TN)

Giving Back Recipient: Present Now Donation Details: We are sending a gift to a non-profit called Present Now, which we have supported in the past. It was founded by Mark Kramer’s remarkable daughter, Erica. Present Now’s mission is to provide essential goods and special gifts for children in California’s domestic violence shelters. Here is a note from one of the many shelters receiving help: "My name is Sharon and I work at a domestic violence shelter. Two of our young school-age children received your amazing boxes last week prior to beginning school. I so wish that you could have seen the absolute joy on their faces. Their worry about going to school unprepared disappeared. The backpacks were even the perfect colors! Thank you from the bottom and top of my heart." Submitted By: Mark Kramer (JBK - Denver, CO)

Giving Back Recipient: English Family Donation Details: We are sending a donation to the English family in Buda, Texas, who are Vanessa’s neighbors. In a recent storm, their house was struck by lightning and set ablaze. Thank God, the familyincluding two kids and a dogall made it safely out. But there was no time to grab belongings. They obviously have a great deal to replace! Submitted By: Vanessa Gonzalez (LUSA - Austin, TX)

Giving Back Recipient: Robert Frometa Donation Details: Robert is a paraplegic and has been wheelchair bound for many years. He receives disability, but he also works, even though the state mandates he cannot make more than what he makes through disability. Working is very important to himsuch an admirable quality! In order to get to work, he has a car equipped with special hand gears. Some years ago, he was also gifted with a contraption that lifts his wheelchair into the car. The contraption has broken; he manages now to load the wheelchair manually, but it’s very difficult. The money we send will help purchase a new lift. Submitted By: Digna Quiles (Landscapes USA, Florida)

Giving Back Recipient: Lockyer Family Donation Details: This week, we are sending a donation to the Lockyer family in Colorado. Mike Lockyer died of a massive heart attack. He was a high school teacher and coach for Ben’s son, Joe. Mike had a passion for teaching math, coaching baseball and, most of all, caring for his family. His family is composed of wife Paula and a teenaged daughter and son. Mike was very supportive of his kids’ many activities, taught the church youth group, and got to see his son make Eagle Scout before his death. His life, although too brief, was definitely well lived! Submitted By: Ben Kristopeit (JBK - Denver, CO)

Giving Back Recipient: Light the Night Donation Details: It is the annual , nationwide fundraiser for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society. A friend of Cindy's, Leslie, who has been living for several years with Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia, says this: Progress is being made daily in the fight against blood cancers, and because of LSS’s research, I am living a full life! The same is happily true for countless others. Submitted By: Cindy Dautel (LUSA - Austin, TX)