Get To Know The Garden Club Of Newtown

Garden Club of Newtown will start its 2007-08 season with a potluck luncheon at Cyrenius H. Booth Library on Tuesday, September 25. The club is always open to new members and invites anyone who thinks they might be interested in joining the club to attend the informal luncheon, which will begin at noon in the Olga Knoepke Memorial Meeting Room (easily accessible from the library’s rear entrance).

The club meets on the fourth Tuesday of each month, and often has a speaker on a subject of interest to the club, which varies from designing gardens or flower arrangements to attracting birds and butterflies or practical areas such as pruning. The programs are presented free of charge, allowing anyone who is interested in a particular subject to attend.

The club also presents a greens sale in the early part of December and recently has hosted annual teas featuring art and floral arrangements.

Proceeds from these fundraisers are used to benefit the community around us. Supporting Newtown High School graduates through the Newtown Scholarship Association is important to the garden club. Members also have a long time relationship with the town’s library and contribute funds as well as working on various other special projects to benefit the library.

Among many other recent contributions are those to help obtain new seats for the theater in Edmond Town Hall and to Canine Advocates of Newtown Building Fund for a new dog pound facility. Another donation last year was to a group that supplied potting tables to senior citizen centers, enabling wheelchair bound seniors to continue working with plants.

The garden club maintains the gardens at the Matthew Curtiss House and at the Blue Star Memorial Marker at the VFW, which the club funded some years ago in conjunction with Newtown Lions Club.

For further call Virginia Carey, publicity chairman, at 270-1108.