A million thanks from the Red Deer and District Garden Club for the success of the Flower and Garden Show on Aug. 16 at the Golden Circle Centre.
A huge thank you to:
• Exhibitors (of flowers, fruits and vegetables, and photographs) who spent countless hours nurturing their entries to be able to provide such excellent specimens (570 exhibits). Without the entries we would not have had a show.
• The local press for providing such excellent reporting, both prior and subsequent to the event.
• Volunteers who assisted in providing of their valuable time with the set up, display, disassembly of the facility and the afternoon tea.
• The following sponsors for their generous donations of prizes, without which we would not have been able to provide the show:
Parkland Nurseries, Safeway Parkland Mall, Real Canadian Superstore, McBain Camera, Sunworks — Paul Harris, Landover Nursery and Greenhouses, Red Deer Coop Garden Centre, Servus Credit Union — Red Deer, Alberta Nurseries and Seeds Ltd. — Bowden, Dentoom’s Greenhouses, Blue Grass Nurseries, Sobey’s South,. Grower Direct — JoAnne Curtis, Coal Trail Greenhouses, Garden Club members — Marg and Ray Morin, Dianne Klein, Val Soderquist, Jean Nichols, Cathy Oppertshauser, Brenda Gulka, Mary Ellen Moore, Karen Baudais, Marion Tenhove, Rose Marie Wedman, Swanson Family, the committee members — Bev Swanson, Reg Jopko, Anne Johnson, Dianne Klein, and Noreen Williamson, judges for their time to come for some from considerable distances to offer their expertise and comments on the quality of the exhibits — Martha Krause, Donna Heileman, Jody Bignell, and Harvey Brink, the entire staff of the Golden Circle that assisted in many ways to make a successful show, the Alberta Horticultural Association for providing judges and for their financial support, and finally, to the visitors who helped make the show an outstanding event, and my capable assistant Ann McNaney who provided valuable help in assigning and organizing the prizes this year.
Myron Gulka (show co-ordinator)
Red Deer