Garden Club starts Re-Leaf Fund to help Western Kentucky

The Garden Club of Kentucky, which is led by current president and Corbin native Carcille Burchette, has established a fund that will help restore the land devastated by the tornadoes in western Kentucky.

Burchette said the fund is an application of the club’s mission statement because it will work towards restoring the land once all the debris has been removed.

The fund, which is known as the Garden Club of Kentucky Natural Disaster Re-Leaf Fund, will be used for the restoration of the land –  gardens, trees, native plants – once all the debris has been cleared and life’s necessities have been restored to all those communities impacted by the December tornadoes in western and central Kentucky, said Burchette.

The Garden Club of Kentucky voted before Christmas to give $1,000 to the City of Mayfield.

Burchette said several garden clubs across the state, as well as various members, have donated to different funds, including $1,000 from the Blue Grass Garden Club in Paris to the fund set up by Gov. Andy Beshear.

Donations to the Re-Leaf Fund can be made by mailing checks to:

Jan Worth, Treasurer

GCKY, Inc.

2305 Shannon Road

Paris, KY 40361-2451.

When writing the check, please write it to GCKY, Inc., and in the memo line, please write GCKY Natural Disaster Re-Leaf Fund.

Burchette said that club members from Mayfield have said the pictures cannot show the devastation.

“Once the debris is cleared, Mayfield will be nothing but a flat land of concrete and blacktop,” club members from Mayfield told Burchette.