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Re: Leonard 80 years: Fund Raising for our Hydra Bench
Posted: Sat Oct 11, 2014 5:36 pm
by regensburg
I am a little late with my thank you to Marie and Jarkko for the wonderful card and for all the hard work and all the valued information we have received. For all who do not know the value of the amount collected for the bench, it is close to 25.000.00 Dollars, which I a great achievement we all have done. I am so very proud to belong to this Forum. Thank you All, I know that Leonard is very, very happy and he deserves this. Jutta
Re: Leonard 80 years: Fund Raising for our Hydra Bench
Posted: Mon Oct 13, 2014 3:22 am
by Susy
... Many Thanks to Marie and Jarkko for this so beautiful card !
I love it .... Susanne
Re: Leonard 80 years: Fund Raising for our Hydra Bench
Posted: Sat Oct 18, 2014 3:59 pm
by Olwen
jarkko wrote:Many of you have asked to see the card we sent to Leonard on his birthday.
Marie designed the card, and it's uploaded now to
http://www.leonardcohenfiles.com/80card.pdf(pdf file, 1 MB).
However, the list of names is not included in this public version. There were many who wanted to keep their names private. We promised to give the names to Leonard and print them in the photo book next summer; we would need to ask every donator for additional permission if we wanted to change this.
We are now closing also the PayPal account. The final number of contributors was 366, and we got 19 058.15 eur in total. Excellent outcome of this fine Project!
Wonderful achievement by everyone- well done.
Olwen
Re: Leonard 80 years: Fund Raising for our Hydra Bench
Posted: Sat Oct 18, 2014 4:01 pm
by Olwen
Marie
A beautiful card- thank you.
Olwen
Re: Leonard 80 years: Fund Raising for our Hydra Bench
Posted: Sat Oct 18, 2014 4:09 pm
by Olwen
jarkko wrote:Putting the names online would be a bit problematic because we didn't ask the contributors for permission to do that.
We only said the names will be sent to Leonard on his birthday (done!) and printed in a photo book which will be made next summer in two copies. One for Leonard. The other one will be deposited at the Hydra Museum where it can be read by visitors.
Right now we have 364 names in the list, and we are pretty close to 19,000 eur.
Jarkko
Ok, thank you . I understand.
Olwen
Re: Leonard 80 years: Fund Raising for our Hydra Bench
Posted: Fri Dec 05, 2014 5:52 pm
by jongrep
Is there any news about the bench project? What is the status?
Re: Leonard 80 years: Fund Raising for our Hydra Bench
Posted: Tue Dec 09, 2014 11:32 am
by WiTS
jongrep wrote:Is there any news about the bench project? What is the status?
viewtopic.php?f=83&t=35576
Re: Leonard 80 years: Fund Raising for our Hydra Bench
Posted: Mon Mar 02, 2015 2:28 pm
by jarkko
I have received good news from Greece today!
We have now the permissions from the Ministries of Culture and Environment.
Our architect will now finalize the paperwork with the municipality of Hydra.
The work on the bench is about to begin!
Re: Leonard 80 years: Fund Raising for our Hydra Bench
Posted: Mon Mar 02, 2015 5:34 pm
by rike
Dear Jarkko,
I saw this post after the one about possible new songs on another thread. That's the way to wake up on a Monday morning . . . onesuddenly has perceptive powers.
Hurra!
Re: Leonard 80 years: Fund Raising for our Hydra Bench
Posted: Mon Mar 02, 2015 6:00 pm
by FOXWOOD
Good News!
Re: Leonard 80 years: Fund Raising for our Hydra Bench
Posted: Fri Mar 20, 2015 9:27 am
by jarkko
Good news today from Lakis who has got all the necessary documents and permissions from the Ministry in Athens:
Well, we have the whole , full signed documents, in our hands. Today, I have given it to the municipal technicians.
They will check the numbers and till the end of the month we start to build the bench.
Great success !!! The stones are already cut properly and look nice.
Re: Leonard 80 years: Fund Raising for our Hydra Bench
Posted: Fri Mar 20, 2015 12:02 pm
by sereneava
That's great news Jarkko. Thank you to everyone involved with this project.
Re: Leonard 80 years: Fund Raising for our Hydra Bench
Posted: Fri Mar 20, 2015 5:26 pm
by mutti
Great news Jarkko! Thanks for the update.
thanks
Leslie
Re: Leonard 80 years: Fund Raising for our Hydra Bench
Posted: Fri Mar 20, 2015 7:43 pm
by joyezekiel
Thanks for the updates.... so looking forward to seeing the bench in real life!
Joy
Re: Leonard 80 years: Fund Raising for our Hydra Bench
Posted: Tue Mar 31, 2015 2:02 am
by Olwen
How wonderful. Someday I hope to be able to visit and sit on the bench and look out on the beautiful sea and think of Leonard.
Olwen/Ireland