DK Landscaping Donates a Gift That Gives All Year Long

DK Landscaping of Rohnert Park in Sonoma County

DK Landscaping owners join the staff and children at the Boys & Girls Club in Rohnert to deliver the

(LosAngeles.CityRegions.Com, January 05, 2015 ) ROHNERT PARK, CA -- David and Kathy Lee of DK Landscaping in Rohnert Park returned to their seasonal roles as Mr. and Mrs. Santa recently when they handed a $1300 check to the Boys and Girls Club in Rohnert Park.

Since 2012, the Lees have donated a total of $13,304 to the club.

In April of 2012, David Lee, president of Sonoma County-based yard maintenance company, made a promise to Club Director Micki Jones. From that date forward, he would donate $25 to the club for every new client he acquired through the year and his company would handle their yard maintenance – for free.

Jones said the children at the club see the Lees and their DK Landscaping employees as role models, showing what community members can do to support each other.

When the project began in 2012, the landscaping and gardening work was no small task. The club’s garden space was an overgrown mess. The Rohnert Park-based gardening services dug right in.

A massive amount of pruning, shaping shrubs, cleaning up debris, digging out weeds, and cutting away dead plants was needed. It took a long, full day with two people working, but in the end Sonoma County DK Landscaping changed the appearance of the Club. Everyone noticed.

“The kids have more confidence in themselves, in us, in the program, when they go to a nice, well-maintained place. They have a sense of pride in a club that is well-taken care of,” says James Conners, Resource Development Manager of Boys & Girls Clubs of Central Sonoma County.

Mike Bracewell, of Rohnert Park’s Department of Public Works, knows how important the club is to the community it serves. “This is where they learn to get along with each other. They don’t learn that on the streets.”

Bracewell also sees all the unseen good works the Lees do. “When it’s cold out, he buys blankets and donates them to shelters. At Thanksgiving, he loads his trunk with turkeys and gives them out. A kid has no bike? He’ll get her one.”

David Lee’s family fled China after the revolution, leaving behind everything they had: their farm and the water buffalo they used to work the land. He grew up in poverty in Hong Kong, with no plumbing or electricity. His uncle sponsored the family to come to the U.S., where they lived in East Palo Alto, then the murder capital of the country. They were still poor, but it was a big improvement. There were opportunities for them to change their lives.

David, who loved to tinker, went to college and became an electronics technician. He worked for HP and did well until the layoffs of the 90s. He then started DK Landscaping with his wife and high school sweetheart, Kathy.

“When I came here, we didn’t know what resources were available. We felt lucky to have jobs. My parents taught us that we should be doing only three things: studying, working and saving. They were very strict,” recalls Lee. “So when I realized all the good the Boys and Girls Clubs do, I thought that was a worthwhile place to donate to so that kids like me could have an easier time of it.”

DK Landscaping is a Rohnert Park garden and landscape company that provides maintenance, cleanup and irrigation services. The Rohnert Park-based garden maintenance business, founded 12 years ago, is QWEL (Qualified Water Efficient Landscaper) and WaterSense certified. To learn more about DK Landscaping in Rohnert Park, visit their website.

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