Eastview Community Foundation Plans Summer Garden Party Fundraiser

The Eastview Community Foundation will host its third-annual Summer Garden Party on Thursday, August 16. Funds raised at the Summer Garden Party will benefit scholarships, grants and random acts of kindness (RAK) funds for Eastview area schools.

One grant designated in 2012 supported a community garden at Scott Highlands Middle School and Highland Elementary school. Funds were made available for a hands- on tools for food and nutrition education, as well as service learning related to the project. Middle school and elementary students will share garden responsibilities by making weekly visits to the garden to water, weed, touch, taste and learn about the food they are growing.

And at the Summer Garden Party, attendees will be able to bid on a gift basket that will contain items provided by the community garden.

To purchase tickets, please visit www.evcf.org. Admission is $20/person or $35/couple.

WHERE: 4854 Dominica Way, Apple Valley, MN 55124

WHEN: Thursday, August 16

TIME: 7 p.m. – 10 p.m.

Eastview Community Foundation:

Since 2000, the Eastview Community Foundation has been supporting Academics, Arts and Athletics in the Eastview attendance area. It was established to not only support Eastview High School but three middle schools and six elementary schools that feed into EVHS. EVCF is made up of 13 volunteer board members and no paid staff. All the funds raised are directed to the schools and academic community. The academic community served includes Highland, Diamond Path, Greenleaf, Thomas Lake and Oak Ridge Elementary Schools, Black Hawk, Falcon Ridge, and Scott Highlands Middle Schools, the School of Environmental Studies, Eastview High Schools and Dakota Ridge.