Clinton News-Record, 1984-04-25, Page 54Page 12
Local gardening clubs offer advice and fun•
from page 11
Fear, Vera Hesselwood, Sheron Stadelmann
and Rita Blake.
Clinton
This year the Clinton Horticultural
Society have received permission from town
council to plant a special flower bed. The
project will commemorate the province's
bicentennial and will be located at Sloman
Memorial Park.
Founded in 1890, the club's executive
today include president, Dorothy Williams;
first vice president, Margaret Middleton;
second vice president, Mike Falconer;
treasurer, Kathleen Elliott; secretary,
Olive Johnston; junior gardener leaders,
Marlon- Powelland'Kathleen Tait; historian,
Dorothy Marquis.
Club members are custodians for 14
flower beds situated throughout Clinton. The
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town also assists the club by watering the
gardens. The club holds monthly meetings
and sponsor two annual flower shows
The first, the Rose Show, walla held ofi
June 22 at St. Paul's Anglican Church. The
second event, the Mina Flower Show will
be held on Aug. .24 at .Central Huron
Secondary School. -
As well the club is planning a special
mystery bus tour on Oct. 17. Club member
Margaret Sloman said that the trip will
definitely be, "horticulturally oriented."
Goderich
The Goderich Garden Club was founded in
the 1900s by Harry Edwards. By 1961 the
club: had changed its name from -the
Goderich Horticultural Society to the
Goderich Garden Club.
Goderich Garden Club meetings feature
guest speakers. The speakers give expert
gardening and flower arranging tips and
meetings also take the form of panel
discussions.
As well, the club takes at least two bus
trips including one to the Toronto Garden
Show. The club's yearly highlight is their
summer Flower Festival.
Executive members are: president,
Norman Hazlitt; secretary Beatrice
Sparling; active treasurer, Doris
Hawthorne; one year directors, Margaret
Alton, Edith Argyle, Enid Bell, Vera
Margerm, Vi Rutherford; two year
directors, Jessie Beach, Tom Grasby, Grace
Hunter, Joan Stadelmann, Donna Young.
Other valuable members are, program
convenor, Dorothy Feagan; membership
convenor, , -Stella Crawford; lunch
committee, Peg Lumsden; Flower Festival
organizer, Edna Shaw.
Lucknow
Reorganized on Dec. 4, 1958 by Charles
Bristow, the Lucknow Horticultural Club
hold general and board meetings about once
a month. Past president Jean Whitby said
that the society meets every third
»Wednesday of.the month.
___Executive: membe'r_s.are president, Mary
MacGillivray; first vice president,', Bell
Mole; second vice, president, Joan
Robinson; .secretary, Ruth Bogues;
treasurer, Catherine Andrews. There are
also 10 directors who form the society's
board.
Every year the club takes part in the
Lucknow Home and Garden Show. They also
organize bus trips and attend a tour of local
gardens. Their annual flower show is held in
Aug: and they enter a float in the fall fair.
Lucknow's Horticultural. Society also
maintain. numerous flower beds, are
involved in a tree planting ceremony and
participate in a summer student
employment program.
This year the club hopes toorganize a
bicentennial garden party.
Bayfield
Perhaps one of the youngest horticultural
Societies in the area is in Bayfield.
Fives years ago4 Doris Hunter organized
the branching of the Bayfield group from the
Clinton Horticultural Society. The Bayfield
Society began with 100 members and soon
grew to its present membership of over 150.
The club is involved in a number of village
projects, including planting flower beds and.
tubs. They are also responsible for replacing
maple trees in the village's Clan Gregor
Square.
On May 12, society members will plant a
row of flowering crab trees to honor
' Ontario's 200th birthday.
Executive members are: president,
Herbert Beatty; first vice president, Harold
Beakhust; second vice, president, Leda
McAllister; secretary, Esther Wright;
• treasurer, Dora Warwick. There are
approximately nine members who sit on the
board of directors and they serve on a one or
two year basis.
The club hosts ari'd annual Garden Walk
tour and sponsor prizes at the Bayfield Fall
Fair. This year a new project will be the
Wild Flower Walk, a short stroll. from the
Bayfield Terrace to the River Road.
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