Rancho Santa Fe News Brief iN FrEE FOrm: Money, some schoolin' goes to Garden Club

Rancho Santa Fe News Brief iN FrEE FOrm: Money, some schoolin' goes to Garden Club

Heady Times for the Rancho Santa Fe Garden Club

 Hey look the Rancho Santa Fe Garden club over for longtime residents Jere and Joyce Oren gave the club $25,000 with the promise of another $75,000 to come.

(Photo: Jere and Joyce Oren, right; Helen and Steve Dizio of the Garden Club.)

Jere Oren said the club was a valued part of the community they wanted to continue for future generations. The room will honor Libby Sanger and helen gordon dudley, according to Oren.

This comes on the heels of a $20,000 donation the philanthropist couple gave last October to the Magdalena Ecke Family YMCA in Encinitas to help build a new pre-school room.

The Orens came to Rancho Santa Fe in 1979. The Garden club arrived at the very beginnings of the community in 1926 and has a storied past.  Donations and bequeaths, rental of its facilities, sales in its thrift shop, and membership dues fund the club.

Rancho Santa Fe Garden Club

And that's not all. the club goes intellectual this spring with Cal State San Marcos' Osher Lifelong Learning Institute presents:

 The Jews of Europe in the Middle ages: A  Story of Survival 

"Few people have a history more filled with triumph and pain than the Jews of Europe. After the fall of the ancient state of Israel, the Jewish  people moved in great numbers to the west. Here they found friendship, opportunities and  persecution. What did the medieval world of Judaism involve, and what did the people of that  era create? How and why were Jews persecuted? This is a story which historians and archaeologist are only now bringing to light. Come and  explore a story of defiance and triumph in  the face of persecution and oppression."

•  Course No.:  OSH10021010JE 
•  Date:  Thursdays Feb. 10 – Apr. 14