From Blanche Woolls

Vaiva is someone we will grieve, but my living with an Irishman makes it necessary to join that grief with joy in her life. Joy because Vaiva as much as anyone we will ever know personally had a magnificant dream, a dream that most people would have thought impossible to have happen. Vaiva lived to see her impossible dream fulfilled in such a far-reaching way.
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Vaiva took her dream to help Lithuania regain its rightful place in the world. She worked steadfastly and diligently using all her many powers to make it happen. She picked several people to be her strong allies, and while many of us know only a handful of that group, it was obvious that she picked true doers and shakers. She realized that the best approach would be to reach the children and that was through their schools, their teachers. Someone coined that wonderful name with its wonderful initials: A.P.P.L.E. and the dream began to unfold.
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A.P.P.L.E. gathered strength through the years and some of us, with no Lithuanian birthright but through meeting others who do, joined the group. It was apparent that Vaiva had it right, that she did it right and all we had to do was keep the program as active as it could be. The numbers of others who have benefitted from her dream will never be counted, and many will never know how or why their lives were so touched.
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Would it be possible to get a Lithuanian artist to design small apple sculptures (I think of the iron sculptures we saw after our dinner on a farm some summers ago) and they could be planted on A.P.P.L.E. sites with a small plaque, "To Honor Vaiva"?

To Vaiva's family, my sympathy.

Blanche