David J. Frank Landscaping To Help Families While Soldiers Are Away

APPLETON, Wis. – David J. Frank Landscape Contracting, Wisconsin’s largest full-service landscaping firm, has donated $10,000 to help families with yard work while their soldiers are serving in the Middle East. The certificate was presented to the Family Readiness Group during a community event honoring the Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 2nd Battalion, 127th Infantry being deployed to support Operation Iraqi Freedom. The June 7th deployment was the largest from the Fox Valley to date. 

“We’re pleased to give something back to these brave soldiers and their families,” said David Frank, president of David J. Frank Landscape Contracting. “Our first hope is for the safe return of all men and women in uniform, but in the meantime, we hope to ease the burden of those who must maintain a home and yard by themselves for the next 18 months.” Family Readiness gratefully accepted this and other donations from area businesses, and will distribute them based on need.

Mara Bakke, director of marketing for David J. Frank Landscape Contracting noted that the company’s gift is meant to help keep soldiers’ families from worrying about things like lawn maintenance when their focus is really on their loved ones overseas. “This is a reserve unit that’s being deployed and you might think that the reserves will be gone for a couple of weeks or a couple of months – but these men and women are going to be overseas for 18 months,” Bakke says. “They’re going to be leaving behind spouses and children and David thought the least he could do is keep them from worrying about cutting the grass and trimming the trees.”

Bakke says people have asked how far $10,000 will go toward the maintenance of the lawns and notes that the company has made the commitment to take care of the families lawn maintenance needs for as long as their loved ones are overseas.

David J. Frank Landscape Contracting, Inc. has been beautifying Wisconsin homes and businesses since 1959. With offices in Germantown, Milwaukee, Madison and the Fox Valley, the company has almost 400 employees with expertise in landscape architecture, computer design, horticulture, landscape maintenance, the construction trades, irrigation, interiorscape and more.