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No matter 'what your
fancy, if you are interested
- in n}aking 'things grow, the
Goderich: Garden Club may
be just for you. As well as
• offering the fellowship that
comes: from members.
sharing 'the same interests,
informative speakers; slides
.and demonstrations can give
you new tips: and ideas on
just about everything from
arranging dried flowers to
makingyour lawn look
greener.
The Goderich Garden Club
(at one -time known as the
Goderich Horticultural
Club) has been around off
and on since the very early
1900s. It was founded by a
citizen named , Harry
Edwards. Over the. years, its
membership has fluctuated
anywhere from a handful of
enthusiastic gardeners to
well over 200 people.
Presently, the local club has
over 40 members and is
eagerly looking for more.
Meetings are held the third
Wednesday of each month at
8 p.m. in Robertson School
( except in July, August and
December when there are no
meetings at all).
As well as the previously
mentioned activities, the
club takes numerous bits
trips, the latest one being
planned for June 6 to Wen-
tworthioneer Village,
Dundurn 'Castle and the
Royal Botanical Gardens in
Hamilton for the `Iris Show'.
Last year, such bus trips
took members to the Flower
Show in Toronto, the Royal
Botanical Gardens, the
Pinery, Lambton County
Museum and the Agri -Park
in Kincardine.
Each July, the Goderich
Garden Club also holds a
Flower Festival incon-
junction with the town's
Festival ,of the Arts. Flower -.
arrangements all centering
on a particular theme are set
up in 16 niches in the council
chambers of the Court
House. This is not a com-
petition but simply a
presentation of beauty for all
to enjoy.
The Garden Club also
supplies and plants the
shrubs and flowers which
beautify the Alexandra
Marine and General Hospital
grounds each year and they
lend financial support for the
shrubs and flowers which
are planted by the town and
club members in Jubilee
Park on Huron Road. •
Rows p all offered
Money to keep the club •
operating and. to 8npply the
above-mentioned shrub; and
flowers come from merri
bership fees,a provI,ncial.
government grant, a silver
collection at the Flower
Festival and a plant auction
held every May.
The Goderich Garden.Club
is just one of 22 clubs. in
District 8 of the Ontario
Horticultural Society...'
Members can attend district
meetings as well as the
Society's annual convention.
"There are a lot of side -
benefits from belonging to
the (Goderich Garden)
Club," says Jean Barnett, a
past president of the club
and an enthusiastic gar-
dener. Mrs. Barnett happens
to love roses and at one time
had over 200 varieties.
' "There's nothing more
beautiful than taking an
early morning walk in a rose
garden," she enthuses.
For many years, Mrs.
Barnett lived on various air
force bases across the
country which meant she
had no ground of her own in
which to plant things. Now
that she has retired to
Black's Point Road just
outside Goderich, she is
making up for lost time.
"What makes gardening
so exciting and satisfying is
that it is man working with
God to beautify nature. I like
that saying, `Tickle Mother
Nature with a hoe and she'll
laugh with a harvest.'
Gardening is work but it is
very rewarding work," she
explains. ,
Mrs. Barnett likes to
emphasize that the Goderich
Garden Club is not just a
club for older women. "We
need the strong spade arms
of the young people and the
men too," she says.
Frances Worsell, im-
mediate past president of the
local club and a very active
member for many years,
likes the fellowship which
the club offers. Gardening
for. her has been a most
enjoyable hobby since she
planted her first big garden
after her marriage. Also a
member of the local hospital
auxiliary, she is one of the
green thumbers 'who works
so diligently to keep the
hospital's flower beds
looking beautiful every year.
Norma Hazlitt, Goderich
Garden Club president this
year, says that although she
has gardened for many
years, she only became a
member of the club recently.
She says she picks up many
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Mrs. Frances Worsell, Mrs. Jean Barnett and Mrs. Norma Hazlitt all have something in
common besides a• love for ylants. They are all active members of the Goderich Garden
Club. Mrs. Hazlitt is the. president and Mrs. Worsell and Mrs. Barnett are both past
presidents. (Photo by Joanne Buchanan)
different ideas, tips and
short cuts from other
members and enjoys sharing
cuttings of her plants with
other members as well.
Mrs. Hazlitt was born and
raised on a -farm and says
that in her day, gardening
was a necessity.
"Everyone grew their own
vegetables back then and
with the increasing prices
today, I think more and more
people are starting to grow
their own again," she says.
"Gardening has been one of
the -. better - .therapies
throughout my life. I find it
• very relaxing and it gives me
a refuge of peace and
tranquility."
Mrs. Hazlitt is particularly
fond of trees and says she is
"a great believer in
reforestration."
^ Mrs. Barnett, Mrs. Worsell
and Mrs. Hazlitt all agree
that anyone can have suc-
cess at making things grow
with a bit of knowledge,.
training and practise. And
what better way to gain that
knowledge, training and
practise than by joining the
Goderich Garden Club?
Green Thumbers
to be reactivated
BY JOANNE BUCHANAN
The Green Thumbers, a junior gardener
program affiliated with the Goderich
Garden 'Club and *co-sponsored by Art's
Landscaping, is about to be reactivated.
The first meeting in planned for Friday,
April 8 at 7:30, p.m. in Victoria Public
School and future meetings will be held the
first Friday of each month after that.
Mrs. Jean Barnett; a member. of the
Goderich Garden Club and a most en-
thusiastic gardener herself, started the
Green Thumbers group in 1974 and soon
built the membership up to 70 children
with. 52 of them being very active.
However, Mrs. Barnett moved away from
Goderich for awhile and the Green
Thumbers eventually disbanded without
her leadership. It has been inactive for
over two years now.
Mrs. Barnett is back in Goderich though
and is anxious to get the Green Thumbers
going again. She has already set up an
executive and teed up some. parents as
leaders (Mrs. Mary Nelson Will serve as
president) and she hopes that a lot of
former members will attendthe first
meeting.
Mr's. Barnett explains that the Green
Thumbers is a well -organized group
associated with the Department of
Agriculture and Food's junior gardener
program. Children are divided into two
groups, one for ages 8-11 and the other for
ages 12-16. They havejoint meetings and
activities but are separated into their .
groups for cbmpetitions, awards, etc. They
conduct their own meetings under the
leadership of a senior youth executive.
They have, a creed called the 4 Cs—
character, challenge, co-operation and
competition. They also have handbooks
and are given' certificates of merit,
awards,.. badges, etc for participation• in
club activities judged on a point system.
Activities will include nature hikes
under the supervision of knowledgeable
adults; picnics and bus trips (tentatively
one would be to the Royal Botanical
Gardens in Hamilton); gardening in-
structions; flower arranging demon-
strations; a garden competition (juniors
who plant and maintain their own small
gardens with seeds and stock supplied by
the club, will have them judged by a team
of senior garden club ahnembers in August
with awards going to the top winners); a
flower show in late. August (with crafts,
collections and hobbies also being a part of
this); and public plantings in co-operation
with the town's Parks Board.
"You can teach children so much (about
gardening)," says Mrs. Barnett. With her
enthusiasm, the Green Thumbers should
become an active part of this community
again in no time.
Library has new reader
The Huron County Public
Library wishes to inform its
patrons that a new service is
now available at the
GoderichBranch Library
that will' be of special in-
terest to historical" and
genealogical researchers.
The Huron.County Library
Board has purchased a 3m -
500 LM Microfilm
Reader/Printer which will
allow patrons to make ex-
cellent quality copies of
materials on microfilm for
only 25 cents per copy. A
researche. using the early
editions of a local newspaper
on microfilm, for example,
can now make copies of the
pages he desires instead of
tediously writing down the
information they contain. As
well as nra-king the
microfilm collection at the
Goderich Branch Library
more convenient to use, this
new service will be of great
benefit to those borrowing
microfilmed materials
through interlibrary loan.
The passenger lists of
ships bringing new
inunignants to Canada and
early editions of newspapers
outside Huron County'are on-
ly two examples of the in-
teresting historical records
available to researchers on
microfilm through in-
terlibrary loan
Since items borrowed,
through interlibrary loan are
only on loan for a relatively
short time, the usefulness of
being able to make copies is
even more apparent. This
new addition to the library
will be a most welcome one
to those using microfilmed
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