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Cover.indd 1 3/2/21 6:31 PM LIFE & STYLE An Outpouring for the Abacos

Mike Meldman, George Strait, and John Paul DeJoria at Strait’s Abaco Relief concert in Austin. Overall, the Foundation has raised millions for the Abacos.

in need in the areas sur- across the Discovery rounding Discovery Land portfolio hosted fund- Company communities. raisers for Abaco Relief. That mission was vital in At the Troubadour Club, the wake of Hurricane near Nashville, musicians Dorian—and Discovery Luke Bryan and Kid Rock Reconstruction of members’ responses were among the partici- Members worldwide pull together the Central Abaco Primary School in went far beyond anything pants in a golf tournament for the Discovery Land Company Marsh Harbour, on Nichols imagined. supporting the cause. The Foundation’s unprecedented Great Abaco . Members from every Madison Club in La Quinta, Discovery community Calif., also hosted an hurricane-relief e! orts. contributed to the Abaco Relief tournament, BY BRUCE WALLIN Foundation’s Abaco Relief while the Yellowstone e!orts, including a group Club put on an impromptu of children who hosted fundraiser. “Keith Urban Christy Nichols gets Discovery’s Baker’s Bay a lemonade sale for the played a benefit concert chills when she thinks Club, traveled fast—and cause. Even nonmembers for Abaco,” says Nichols. back to the fi rst week prompted an immediate heeded the call: “One “That was an amazing of September 2019. response from Discovery woman referred her surprise. We didn’t ask and said, ‘George Strait whole event from the Nichols says. Discovery Hurricane Dorian had members worldwide. of the Discovery Land most heartwarming of Discovery members, mother’s sewing club in a him to do it—he o!ered.” wants to do a concert,’ ” beginning to the end was members and teams from just torn through the “When the hurricane hit, Company Foundation. demonstration of gener- but also their trust in the state where we don’t even It was another country recalls Nichols. The event, one of the most beautiful all regions, including , striking the there was an automatic “Within the fi rst fi ve days osity I’ve ever witnessed Foundation. Founded in have a property, and the music star who staged held eight weeks later at collaborations of support, Driftwood Golf & Ranch Abaco with response from members following the hurricane, in my life.” 2007, the organization has entire sewing club sent the biggest fundraiser for Austin’s ACL Live at the hard work, and heartfelt Club, supported with time record 185 mph winds. to reach out and ask, I had thousands of credit The outpouring of a proven track record of checks,” Nichols says. Abaco Relief. “I was in the Moody Theater, raised unity to help, inspired by and funds. News of the devastation ‘How can we help?’ ” card donations in my support underscored funding charities that sup- In addition to individual o"ce doing bookkeeping $1.5 million for Abaco the leadership and gen- Overall, contributions in the Abacos, home to recalls Nichols, the director email inbox. It was the not only the generosity port children and families donations, communities when somebody came in Relief in one night. “The erosity of George Strait,” for Abaco Relief have

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You can fi nd fun at any Discovery club, and these puzzles are here to prove it. Please help us fi nd missing items from our beach vacation, search for the hidden words in the desert, and guide us back to our campfi re for an evening of s’mores and campfi re songs. Don’t forget to bring your imagination and creativity!

It’s a warm day on the golf course at The Summit Club! Can you fi nd and circle the 10 words Word Search or phrases in this puzzle? Look closely—words may be across, down, or diagonal!

Left to right: Brett Hull, Cole Swindell, J. J. Dudum, Luke Bryan, Mike Meldman, and Kid Rock at the Abaco Relief Golf Tournament at Troubadour.

totaled millions. The supplies, and more to been delayed by the need will provide a lot more.” we’ve been able to run Foundation is pouring displaced residents of to obtain permits, as Even with all its e!orts the entire Abaco Relief that money into several Great Guana and the well as travel bans—the in the Abacos, the donation e!ort while projects granting both surrounding islands. Many pandemic really slowed Foundation has not lost also giving to our known emergency and long-term of those emergency relief everything down tremen- sight of its mission to help charities that we’ve aid to a!ected com- e!orts continue to this dously,” Nichols says. families in all areas where supported throughout the munities in the Abacos day. The Foundation is “But we’ve been able to Discovery operates. “One years,” Nichols says. “As and beyond. Discovery also funding projects that achieve a lot of great of the remarkable things the needs got stronger, leadership and the team include rebuilding Central things in Abaco, and we that’s happened is that we got stronger.” DL at Baker’s Bay have been Abaco Primary School helpful in sharing infor- and other schools to mation about local needs storm-code specifications COMPASSION DURING COVID and progress. “Peter for use as community Whalen, the general shelters, and building The Discovery Land Company Foundation’s mission to help children and manager of Baker’s Bay, on-site sta! housing at the families in need took on new meaning in 2020. With the onset of the pandemic— has been in frequent hospital in Marsh Harbour, and the subsequent loss of jobs and income for people worldwide—the communication with us, as well as additional hous- Foundation immediately set out to assist local families who were facing and Ed Divita has been ing for storm victims. food shortages. Director Christy Nichols worked with team members at involved since the first Ongoing e!orts in Great properties throughout the Discovery portfolio to identify 12 local food banks minutes,” Nichols says. Guana Cay include building to support, including the Central Food Bank, the Maui Food Bank, the The Foundation’s first a new public clinic, which Heart of the Hamptons, and Post Falls Food Bank in . Member contri- priority was funding will o!er medical care to butions have also helped fund—and are continuing to support—food-relief programs that were pro- island residents. “We are e!orts in , , , and the Bahamas. viding food, water, shelter, ready with the funding and generators, building plans, but some of it has PESKIMO

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