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Yesterday we announced we announced a major gift to the United Church Camp Meeting Association because of the destruction which took place in December’s Storm, in keeping with Springvale’s ongoing comittment to community service.
This has been sent to all media in the province and we hope it is picked up to the degree that last year’s announcement of our financial difficulty was publicized.
Here is the entire text of the press release.
PRESS RELEASE: Berwick NS, June 24th 2011
“Springvale Nurseries Makes $10,000 Gift of Trees to The United Church Camp Meeting Association”
It is seldom that a press release contains good news. Today we are very pleased to announce that our company, Springvale Nurseries has managed to dramatically improve its financial position over a year ago. Springvale is making excellent progress toward full recovery.
In June 2010 we had nearly depleted all available cash and were facing closure unless we were able to generate some serious revenue from sales. We announced at the time a “Going out Of Business Sale” for our Berwick (Welsford) Garden Center.
The response from our customer base was overwhelming. Our clients went away with fantastic value. This provided us with the cash needed to remain solvent and keep our garden center open. Landscaping activities through the fall months also assisted in our recovery.
In December of 2010, a monstrous storm ripped through Berwick and surrounding areas. During this storm Springvale Nurseries sustained massive damage to 90% of its greenhouse structures. This loss was uninsurable. We are hoping to receive assistance to rebuild these from the Disaster Relief Program. This was announced recently by the Province of Nova Scotia to replace and rebuild business assets destroyed in the storm.
Also, during this storm a huge amount of damage was suffered by the Camp Meeting facilities at Berwick United Church Camp. More than four hundred old growth trees were knocked down and did immense damage to the buildings on the property.
Springvale Nurseries, in celebration of our survival and financial improvement is pleased to announce that we are celebrating in two ways. Paul Grimm, President of Springvale Nurseries is pleased to announce today that the company is making a gift of $10,000 value of large caliper trees to the United Church Camp Meeting Association. This will help replace some of the trees lost in the storm.
We are also holding a “Second Annual Going Out of Business Sale” on the anniversary of last year’s sale which saved our business. This is being held from June 24th – July 24th as a huge “Thank You” to the many customers who helped us stay in business and with continued support, we will be in business for many years to come! .
We are very thankful to all those who continue to appreciate our products and services. As our financial situation continues to improve we plan to continue our tradition of giving back to our community. We hope that this demonstrates very clearly to the marketplace that there are huge benefits of buying locally grown products; beyond the obvious quality and service value.
With any business recovery some outstanding issues have not yet been fully resolved, nor can we state categorically that we are “completely out of the woods”.
However…it is comforting to know we are on the path to recovery and hopefully within a couple of years, the business will be on full and firm ground for our future developments.
Cash flow, the bane of small business still remains a problem which we are working to overcome with aggressive marketing and sales activities as well as cost controls.
Springvale Berwick Garden Center remains open to the public and our staff have done a
magnificent job so that our product and sales area has never looked better.
Springvale continues to build on its core business lines:
• Retail Garden Center (Berwick Location)
• Large Tree Production and Installation.
• Wholesale Supply to Landscapers and Garden Centers.
• Commercial and Residential Landscape Construction and Installation
• Springvale “True Bloom Roses” (roses on their own roots produced by tissue culture)
The company is also embarking on innovative research and development into native plant propagation and mass production. This is for application on wetlands and uplands sites to mitigate site damage from construction, highways, mining and other activities requiring site mitigation and restoration.
www.springvalenurseries.com
Posted by Eva Evans on September 29, 2011 at 6:40 am
Thank you so much, Springvale Nurseries, for your gift of trees to the United Church Campround. I have been attending the Christian Ashram there every July for the last 20 years. We have all loved the magnificant hemlock giants. Your generosity will be much appreciated for years to come. I am curious as to what kinds of trees you donated.
Eva Evans
ps I didn’t see this press release til today (Sept 29)
I am glad your business survived.
Posted by spvale on September 29, 2011 at 6:55 am
Hi Eva,
Thanks for your comment! Growing up and living in Berwick area I was able to attend Vacation Bible School at Berwick Camp and later went to Allied Youth Camp as well. And my daughters attended later on. Sally who has become a wonderful singer also benefited from the Summer Choral Federation camps. And still today, we enjoy attending services during the week of Berwick Camp.
We are working with the organizers with regard to the tree project and likely most of the trees won’t be planted until next year. This is because they are still working out the layout of the camping area up back and want the trees to fit comfortably around the individual campsites.
We planted the first of the trees, a beautiful Pin Oak just before camp meeting week and it was dedicated as part of the open house celebration. The remaining trees will be a mixed group of Oaks, Maples, Ash, etc. and we look forward to getting these planted as soon as the camp is ready for them.
Thanks for reading my blog and your kind comments!
Paul