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Tuesday, April 23, 2024

Pocket Pillowcase Club donates $3,500 to doctor helping needy in third world nations

Members of the Pocket Pillowcase Club presented Dr. Glenn Geelhoed with a check for $3,500 at a book signing and talk on Nov. 1 at the Savannah Center.  Dr. Geelhoed is the founder of Mission To Heal whose goal is to provide medical services to underserved people in third world countries.  The club raises money for Dr. Geelhoed through the sale of pillowcase dresses and britches at various craft shows. He has also given more than 3,500 dresses to needy children on his various missions.

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The Pocket Pillowcase Club presented Dr. Glenn Geelhoed with a check for $3,500.

Vietnam veterans grateful for community support

An official with Vietnam Veterans of America Chapter 1036 is grateful for community support. Read his Letter to the Editor.

Serious top-down management failure in The Villages

In a Letter to the Editor, a Village of Collier resident has been studying the golf course crisis in The Villages and has concluded there has been a serious top-down management failure.

Let them keep the fence!

A Village of Palo Alto resident, in a Letter to the Editor, expresses support for a couple in The Villages fighting to keep a fence to keep out elements of the outside world.

There are truly wonderful people in The Villages

In a Letter to the Editor, a Village of DeLuna resident expresses thanks for a kind couple who did him a huge favor. He does not know them, but he is very grateful.

Thank You Marsha Shearer

A Village of Piedmont resident expresses his thanks to Marsha Shearer for information in her recent Opinion piece. But we sense a little sarcasm.