Geneva Giving
January 1, 2010 by Dawn Vogelsberg
Filed under Announcements
Welcome back!
Geneva is fortunate to have so many activities to choose from during the holiday season. There
are outings and celebrations held throughout the city during the months of November and December that many of us participated in. There is no doubt about it; we are a city steeped in holiday traditions.
I tried to determine which one activity would most aptly define Geneva. Then it occurred to me that it wasn’t an activity at all but the charitable goodness of our residents. Giving is all around us. While oftentimes it seems that everyone is soliciting money and donations this time of
year, Geneva still seems to be willing to rally around people in need. When as a community we put others before ourselves, we are working towards making Geneva a more beautiful place to live.
So please give yourself a pat on the back for the extra Christmas presents you bought just so your children could give them to charity, to all the ones and fives you slid into the kettles and to all the checks you wrote to your favorite charities. Geneva is truly a giving community.
P.S. How serendipitous is it that one of the most inflectional people in the creation of Geneva was Charity Herrington!
This article first appeared in the January 2010 issue of eGeneva Magazine.
