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The dans are complete, last-minute details
are being attended to, and the doors - are
ready to open for Seaforth's first-ever home
and garden show.
It's the result of communal effort between
three people with apparently unconnected
concerns.
Bryan Peter, the town's former recreation
director, had seen this kind of event work
successfully in other municipalities. He
wanted the same kind of success, for Seaforth
and yet another way to put the Se.aforth and
District Community Centres to work. With
the hockey season finished and the baseball
;season not yet begun, a home and garden
show made a lot of sense.
Bob Fisher, head of Seaforth's business
Improvement Association (BIA) was looking
to get two things done at once. His work with
the BIA meant he was on the alert for novel
ways of spurring consumers and bettering
the town's business climate.
Bob Fisher also had another concern. His
involvement with the Seaforth Minor Ball
Association had him lookingfor a sure-fire
fundraising scheme. The Home and Garden
show seemed to fit both those requirements.
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Mr. Fisher contacted Marg Dale, who has
been working to, put theshow together *ince
the beginning of February.
"I was put m charge of this show, and I'm
still really not sure how," says Mrs. Dale."
"Vary exhibitors
so we don't have
all tractors"
In the past three months, Mrs. Dale has
assembled a variety of exhibitors, mixing
them between commercial concerns and
smaller outfits less interested in drummiflg
up potential business.
`We've tried to vary the exhibitors so we
won't have all tractors," she says. "We've
got a variety of things; decorating and
landscaping, and we're still getting people.
We've got a lot of furniture, we've got
someone who rents power tools, we've got a
guy that specializes in metalcraft -- spiral
atawcases made out of iron, that.. kind of
thing."
Mrs. Dale also made certain to. include
smaller exhibitors who, while not commercial
were involved in projects that would be of
interest to the general public.
The lobby of the Seaforth and District
Community Centres will be occupied by arts
and crafts people, displaying their wares and
hoping to sell some. Mrs. Dale mentioned the
Brownies and local artist Alf Dale as
examples of people who will set up their
booths in the lobby.
She also wanted to put some limits on the
larger exhibitors who will occupy the ice
surface.
"What we're asking for is making the
displays have some interest. W e want a
combination of demonstration and selling."
Theredwas also an effort made to make sure
the show held something for everybody.
"We've got a fashion show running all
three days: Thursday and Friday nights at 8
p.m. and Saturday at 2 p.m. We're trying to
set up a microwave demonstration, and I
wanted to have a fitness demonstration, as
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Since this show is the first of its kirid" for
Seaforth, Mrs. Dale, says, she was surprised
by a few things.
"Most of our exhibitors are from Seaforth.
I thought we'd get some of the smaller
businesses, but a lot of them are one-man
operations, and they really can't afford to
send someene to man a booth at the show and
leave someone else behind to run the store at
the same time."
Mrs. Dale says she attributes this tentative
view in part to the fact that the show is a new
phenomenon.
"°I think a lot of people are sitting back to
see how it goes this year."
With the dedicatign and hard work Marg
Dale has shown in assembling the exhibitors,
activities and demonstrations, the success of
Seaforth's first-ever home and garden show
should be a foregone conclusion.
Season
(Continued from Page 4)
The list of direct -sun plants includes such
easy -to -grow choices as: `Hollywood White'
geranium, ' Red Marietta' marigold and Fink
Daddy' petunia. Kook also to the ageratum,
portulaca,, gazania, celosia, gerbera, and
verbena families... the list goes on and on.
Tolerant of partial shade are varieties the
likes of the `Bingo Series' of begonias, ,'Red
Hot Sally' salvia and the `Fantasia Series' of
impatiens. Other low -light choices include "
browallia, coleus, pansy, campanula and
forget-me-not.
The vegetable basket is full of such
sun -loving treasures as 'Champion', °Heart-
land' and `Sweet Cherry' tomatoes, ' Block-
buster'Better Belle' and, 'Fire' peppers,
'Red S, `ails' lettuce, `Peter Pan' squash,
`SweetHeart' strawberry and 'Market Star'
cantaloupe.
Small space limitations? `Florida Basket'
and `Florida Petite' tomatoes, 'Pot Luck'
cucumber, `Butterfingers' and `Gypsy' pep-
pers and `Dusky' eggplant should do the
trick.
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