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| WELCOME BABY TROY AND BABY ERICA TO GARDEN OF INNOCENCE/BAY AREA |
Garden of Innocence/Bay Area will lay to rest their first two babies.
Memorial Service for
Baby Troy and Baby Erica
Friday July 8th - 2PM
San Francisco Columbarium
1 Lorraine Court
The public is welcome to attend and participate.
For more infor: goibayarea@gmail.com or write
P.O. Box 320292 San Francisco, CA 94132
Seeking volunteers
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| Neptune Society Collumbarium in San Francisco |
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| Garden of Innocence/Bay Area includes: San Francisco, Solano, Sonoma, San Mateo, Napa, Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin & San Jose Counties |
To write us or send a donation, please send to:
Garden of Innocence/Bay Area
P.O. Box 320292 San Francisco, CA 94132
or email: Mike Gunn at goibayarea@gmail.com
Volunteer positions available
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| Elissa Davey with Special Agent Mike Gunn of the San Francisco Sheriff Department |
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| Interior of Columbarium |
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| Elissa Davey and Neteria Carroll, Founders |
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JUNE 2011
Received second baby from San Francisco County. Her name will be Erica. We are planning a service for July 8th foir both Troy and Erica. The public is welcome to attend and participate.
We have many volunteer positions available. Also need one volunteer from each of the counties. Please contact Mike Gunn at goibayarea@gmail.com or Elissa Davey at goinational@hotmail.com
May 2011
We received our first baby this week and will be planning a service in June. His name will be Troy and we are very excited that Alameda County is our first County to trust us with this little one. We are going to take our time and make sure the service is perfect as we want to invite all the counties to come to see what we do so that they can see how well we take care of their little ones.
Please write us if you have any questions as we would love to hear from you. We are also in need of donations as these cremations are more expensive for us as each service will cost us about $300.00. Please consider supporting Garden of Innocence/Bay Area and come to our services to make sure no child leaves this earth without someone who cares. We will post notices as soon as we know the date of the service.
November 17, 2010
We spend four days in the Bay area visiting with coroners and public administrators around the Bay area and asking them if they will consider us as part of their team when a child is found abandoned in their counties. We were so grateful that we received an amazing response and that they were very interested in learning more about us and that we were willing to take on this task at no charge to the county.
Our best find in San Francisco was Special Agent Michael Gunn of the San Francisco Sheriff department. Mike volunteered to be our point of contact for all the counties in the Bay Area and head up Garden Of Innocence/Bay Area. Mike is hoping that he can get some of his fellow Sheriff officers to join him in this endeavor. Michael we thank you so much for sticking with us over the last two years and being so caring about this mission.
The other counties we met with were Contra Costa, Sonoma, Napa, Solano, San Mateo & Alameda. We left our documents at the all the offices for them to review if we were not able to meet them. The entire trip was worth the scary effort it was to drive in San Francisco. Thank you so much to Mary Nardella, who came with me from San Diego to be my navigator. She saved me from a few mishaps that would have been very scary if Mary wasn't in the car.
Thank you so much to Kenny and Susan Grant of Petaluma, CA who have volunteered to be the point of contact for the county of Sonoma. We are so grateful to be able to have a volunteer in each county to help us. If you are interested, please write us at goibayarea@live.com
Last year, we were informed that there was a child found in the trash in Union City and that we might receive this child in Garden of Innocene/Bay Area, but the police department was able to raise funds and bury the child within their city.
That is great news as our only point is to make sure that no child leaves this earth without someone there that cared.
Our hats off to the City of Union City
Please send your prayers toward one of our volunteers, Christine Douglas, those child has fallen ill and is in a serious condition. We send her our support to her and our hope that her child regains health quickly.
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VOLUNTEERS NEEDED
Our NEW GARDEN OF INNOCENCE/SAN FRANCISCO is breaking ground on Thursday October 2nd at the Neptune Society Columbarium located at One Lorraine Court in the Richmond District of San Francisco.
We need volunteers from the community to help run the garden and make sure that no child leaves this earth unnoticed.
VOLUNTEERS NEEDED AS SOON AS POSSIBLE ARE
Volunteer Coordinator:
A person to oversee all volunteers and make sure that the service coordinator is completing their tasks. This person will be the direct contact between the public administrator and the Neptune Society. This person will notify the service coordinator that we have a baby to care for.
Service Coordinator:
This person oversees all the positions below and makes sure that everyone has completed their task and that the service runs smoothly.
Positions under service coordinator are:
Clergy Officiant :
This person is in charge of finding various clergy from all faiths to give the message at the service.
Poem: FILLED
This person will be enlisting & setting up a list of volunteers from the community to write a poem for each child. Our only guidelines is that you never mention the word abandoned, death, oh, what an aweful mom or anything to do with yesterday...today is a new day and this baby is going home with this wonderful memorial service. Poems will be put in numerical order of when received. When your poem comes up, we will notify you of the date of the service so that you can attend as well as read your poem during the memorial service. Not to worry if you don't want to read your poem as a volunteer will be chosen to read it for you.
IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO WRITE A POEM PLEASE EMAIL JEANE SILVER AT JSILVERYMOON@YAHOO.COM
Song/Music:
This person will be enlisting local musicians or singers to sing two songs for the service and provide back up music if necessary. Also this person will be keeping a list of future volunteers.
Flowers:
This person will be obtaining donations from the local community or a florist to donate flowers for each service.
Toys:
Each baby receives a beanie baby size toy. Obtaining donations from the community for these toys.
Doves:
This person will be in charge of obtaining a company that releases Doves at the service for each child, if there is a company in the area.
Cemetery:
This Person to notify the cemetery that we have a new baby coming and to obtain the dates for the next available Saturday service. We usually book two weeks out.
Knight of Columbus: FILLED
Tis person will be working directly with the Knights to notify them of pending services. If you are a Knight and would like to be included on the list to be notified of a service please email Romeo Queveda at romeoquevedo@sbcglobal.net
Record Keeper:
This person will maintain all records for the garden as well as a file for each baby coming into the Garden of Innocence.
Fund Raiser Chairman:
This person will work on projects that will help raise the funds needed for each service.
Media Representative:
This person is responsible for knowing the story of the garden, meeting with the media and also giving speeches when ever needed as well as contacting organizations and ask to give speech. Qualified person must be knowledgable of our story and bring community awareness to the garden.
Email and marketing coordinator: FILLED
This person is in charge of sending out a mass emailing to notify everyone interested in coming to a service of a pending service date. They will also work directly with the media representative to gain community awareness.
If you would like to be added to our emailing list please send an email to with your name, address, phone # & email to Christine Douglas nightbrd@yahoo.com. Please tell her that you would like to be added to the mailing list for Garden of Innocence/San Francisco
There are many more positions that need to be met as well as setting up the organization of the garden administration. Working directly with Garden of Innocence National so that all runs smoothly and with the least amount of issues.
If you would like more information please email us at goisanfrancisco@hotmail.com or call our toll free number 888-535-4772. We appreciate all of you for your kind heart and believing that all children need to be cared for even in this final hour.
Elissa Davey, Founder/CEO
We do not participate in any legislation or comment on any social issues.
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| No caskets will be needed in SF. We will need to design a box to place this plastic liner in to protect the cremains. The box measures 6 1/4 inches long by 2 5/8 inches on each side. If interested in helping us design a box, please write or call us at the numbers below. 888-535-4772 or goisanfrancisco@hotmail.com |
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Great News!
We have confirmed with the County Medical Examiners, Indigent affairs office that we have been given the go ahead to start a Garden of Innocence in Bay Area.
October 2, 2008, Pastor Netreia Carroll and Elissa Davey will be going to San Francisco to meet the people at the Neptune Society and tour the Collumbarium.
Dedicated in 1898, the Neptune Society Columbarium is one of San Francisco's most prized architectual treasures. After a 1930's era edict from the city of San Francisco mandated the closure and removal of all of its cemeteries. The Columbarium was the sole surviving cemetery property available to people of all faiths. Located in the Richmond District, the Columbarium and the adjacent Franciscan Room and Fountain Court are still the only active non-denominational cemetery properties in the City of San Francisco.
In the 1980's, the Neptune Society of Northern California took stewardship of this historical treasure. After extensive renovation, the Columbarium is once again a gleaming example of neo-classical splendor. Long established as the final resting place of choice for the city’s elite, walking through the Columbarium is like reading an epic historical novel with each personalized niche a unique chapter.
If you are interested in being involved in this Garden, please write us at goibayarea@live.com or goisanfrancisco@hotmail.com
We are looking for a designer to design small boxes that are uniformed in size for cremains for our niche at the collumbarium.
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| Elissa Davey, Founder and Dr. Neteria Carroll, Director |
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DONATE TODAY AT:
GARDEN OF INNOCENCE NATIONAL
P.O. BOX 722 CARLSBAD, CA 92008
(ON THE MEMO LINE WRITE "Bay Area")
EMAIL US TODAY AT
goibayarea@live.com
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| CURRENT GARDEN REPRESENTATIVES |
Director and Records Coordinator:
Mike Gun
KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS COORDINATOR:
ROMY Queveda MASTER KNIGHT FROM ST. JOHNS
Email & Mass Mailing Coordinator:
CHRISTINE DOUGLAS nightbrd@yahoo.com
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