Good Earth Home, Garden & Living Show Pledges to Match Every Dollar Donated at the January 22-24 Show Made to Medical Teams International in the Lobby & Exhibit.

 

The 5th Annual Good Earth Home, Garden & Living Show held January 22-24 in Eugene, Oregon is partnering with Medical Teams International, based in Portland, Oregon, to raise funds for disaster medical assistance in Haiti.
Admission into the show is free, show attendees can double Haiti donations because Berg Productions, the show management, will donate up to $10,000 in a match for every dollar donated to Medical Teams International at the show.  Medical Teams International volunteers will be collecting donations by check or cash in the lobby of the show and by credit card at their educational exhibit located in the North Hall.
Helen Berg, founder of Berg Productions who produces three Eugene based home and garden shows immediately sprung into action to partner with this organization because of its excellent reputation as they consistently receive a 4 Star rating from Charity Navigator: “Medical Teams International a wonderful organization that can deliver the much needed medical care needed in Haiti. They are so efficient at utilizing donations to provide lasting solutions for people suffering from such a massive disaster as this tragic earthquake.”
As a supporter of Medical Teams International, formally known as NW Medical Teams, Ms. Berg is confident that these donations will be maximized for life sustaining assistance. This Portland, Oregon based non-governmental organization (NGO) was founded in 1979. Medical Teams International served more than 4.5 million people in 53 nations and delivered more than $126 Million in supplies to 45 countries in the last year alone. They also provide dental care to those in need with 11 mobile Dental Clincs in the Northwest and one in Minnesota.
On January 14 Medical Teams International sent a very experienced team of six people to Haiti. They carried medicines and orthopedic supplies – enough to help 12,000 people for a week. An orthopedic specialty team is scheduled to depart on Sunday, January 17.
Show management will match cash, check & credit card donations given AT the January 22-24 show – up to $10,000.
Please make all checks out to Medical Teams International, Cash & Credit Cards will be accepted at the show as well.
Event:  5th Annual Good Earth Home, Garden & Living Show
Lane Events Center – Fairgrounds in Eugene, Oregon.
FREE Admission:   Bring Canned Food For FOOD for Lane County
Show Hours:
January 22, Friday 5-9pm
January 23, Saturday 10am-8pm
January 24, Sunday  10am-5pm
Full Event Information: EugeneHomeShow.com
Information on Medical Teams International: www.Medicalteams.org
Rated 4 Stars by Charity Navigator – excellent Oregon based NGO

United States Senator Jeff Merkley tours Lane County Home Improvement Show

 

Eugene Home Show was honored to have United States Senator Jeff Merkley tour our October 2009 Lane County Home Improvement Show in Eugene, Oregon.  The Senator visited with our exhibitors that are focused on building Oregon’s green economy and creating jobs for a stronger Oregon.   We hope the Senator found his visit to the show interesting and invite him back to our January 22-24, 2010 Sustainable Good Earth Home, Garden & Living Show, America’s 1st Sustainable Home & Garden Show!

Local Home & Garden Show selected for National Home and Garden Show Series™

 

The Lane County Home & Garden Show has been selected for USA Exposition’s “National Home and Garden Show Series™” for 2010, a designation that brings the potential to attract national marketing support to the local event. It is one of the largest consumers shows held annually at the Lane County Events Center, Eugene, Oregon, attracting 30,000-plus visitors over a four-day period.

It is now one of 30 of the nation’s top independent home shows that have joined forces with USA Expositions, a Cleveland-based marketing company, to launch PremierHomesShows.com and the national series as a vehicle to combine their resources and their reach.

“This collaboration of independent consumer home and garden shows will put our hat in the ring for marketing dollars that normally go elsewhere,” said company President Helen Berg.   “It is an honor to have our spring show selected and it will help level the playing field as we compete for national exhibits and sponsorship dollars.”

It will be joining up with other events from Seattle, St. Louis, Philly, Louisville and others in this collaborative effort to gain access to national companies.

“This premier 30-show portfolio provides a collective media expenditure/sponsorship benefit of $5 million and direct access to more than 1.5 million show attendees,” said Brian Roggenburk, president of USA Expositions.
This union of the best-produced and best-attended shows in the U.S. provides national companies the opportunity to easily and effectively gain coast-to-coast exposure and meet their customers face-to-face in a variety of different markets, he added.

Roggenburk was founder and managing director of IMG Expositions – the firm’s consumer show division. He brings more than 30 years of experience in event marketing, including his 25-year tenure at IMG (the world leading sports marketing and event company), representing and working on the firm’s two most prestigious accounts – Wimbledon and The Open Championships, aka The British Open.

USA Expositions will support only one show in each market. “The shows we selected were based on quality exhibits, quality gardens, attendance, promotions and advertising and the overall experience for show visitors,” said Roggenburk. “For the sponsors, the show also represents a distinct and targeted demographic of affluent homeowners, as well as dynamic industry leaders active in their communities.”

The series has partnered with Better Homes and Gardens Magazine to provide discounted subscriptions to attendees of the participating shows. The National Home & Garden Show Series will be pursuing major automotive and home improvement partnerships for the local events.

The Lane County Home & Garden Show is scheduled for March 11-14, 2010 at the Lane Events Center.  The 31st annual show will present over 350 exhibiting firms, 45 educational seminars, landscapes, national and local speakers. For more information, including a list of the participating independent shows, event dates and locations, visit www.premierhomeshows.com.

Spring 2009 Show featured on RetroRenovation.com by 50’s Pam!

 

1942-hotpoint-war-bondsMy home show talk in Eugene, Oregon

by Pam Kueber on March 23, 2009

How to boil down a year-and-a-half of Retro Renovation learning into a 45-minute home show talk? A number of readers have asked… no, I don’t have it on video, sorry… but here’s what I talked about at my recent talks at the Lane County Home Show in Eugene, Oregon. A mix of… social history… vintage 40s 50s and 60s eye candy… my own story and how I got into the blog… and products and ideas to preserve, restore and renovate modest, middle class ranches, capes, colonials, splits and bungalows.  Oh – and read on for some other fun stuff from the show, too!

  • To start – I talked about the historical context for our midcentury, middle-class homes: The many years of privation in America, beginning with the Great Depression and extending through WWII… and how that created pent-up demand for housing and things like dream kitchens – as in the 1942 Hotpoint kitchen ad, above.
  • Fast forward from 1942 to 2002 – and my own search for a dream kitchen ultimately led me to create this blog.
  • I talked about Cape Cods by Barry Wills… then ranch houses… and how these two American housing styles mashed up into all kinds of combinations in the postwar era.
  • We raced through 25 years of design history and looked at interiors from the 40s, 50s and 60s.
  • Of course this included hudee rings (only one person out of hundreds knew what these were already)… pecky cypress (totally alien to the west coast)… and of course, pink bathrooms. Everyone loves pink bathrooms!
  • At the end of each talk I showed the St. Louis 1955 time capsule. As an example of just how much these homes meant to their original owners… and of how caring people today are recognizing their value and the reasons for preserving and restoring them.

In all: The audience was very receptive… these were folks who owned midcentury homes and were looking for more inspiration to love them… and some folks, too, who had lived through the era and wanted to rekindle memories.

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