Conway Garden Club has been busy with many activities besides our regular meetings at 1 p.m. the first Tues. of each month. One of these recent activities was our annual plant sale, always the first Saturday in April at the fountain of the Westgate subdivision. Due to the recent rain the gardeners had trouble getting out to their gardens to dig, Charles Rainey who has his own landscasping design company helped us out by providing beautiful three gallon pots of azaleas in pink and red which we sold for only fifteen dollars. Our sale this year was on April 5.
Julia Fraser coordinated the sale with helpers present on sight ;Elizabeth Black, Cashier ,Donna Bivens, Delaine Gartner, Mary Hammett, Paulette Herring, Florene Phipps, Vickie Repp, Sherry Scholijegerdes. President Bonnie Stidham had to be out of state on family illness. Others who contributed flowers or helped in other ways were Pat Byrd, Norma Crass, Betty Taylor and Terry Williams.
Conway Garden Club sponsors the State of Arkansas Daffodil Show at the Faulkner County Library. This year the meeting was Saturday, March 29. The Arkansas Daffodil Society presented their forty-sixth annual show. Kay Mayes of Conway is the President. and was the General Chair and the Judges Co-Chair; Char Roush, Awards Chair; Bonnie Stidham, Properities Chair; David Jones, Placement/Classification Chair; Frances Goodenough, Judges Co-Chair; Amanda Hurd, Schedule Chair; Paulette Herring, Hospitatlity Chair with Norma Crass filling in, in her absence. Many Conway Garden Club Members worked as clerks, setting up and dismantling also many won ribbons, Kay Mayes, Bonnie Stidham, Paulette Herring, Norma Crass, Pat Byrd and Vickie Repp for their daffodils entered into the show. Mitsch Daffodil Company of Oregon sends specimens of their latest daffodils to be put on display. There are over 26,000 kinds of daffodils and 13 divisions.
The Arkansas Federation of Garden Clubs sponsors a Youth Poetry Contest each year. Conway Garden Club sponsored the following enteries in this year's (2007) contest, theme was "Nature and Me",
Submitted by the Girl Scouts of Quachita Council, Troop 080 of Faulkner Service Unit, Neva Spradlin, Troop Leader, girls age six and seven, Kindergarten, first and second grades.
My Roses Are To Share
Roses
Roses
Roses
Red roses
Pink roses
Big, fat, smelly roses
Little, teeny, tiny roses
Prickly stems
Soft petals
Don't forget to water, sun, and soil
Last of all, best of all,
I like sharing my roses.
Authors-Beth Stankiewicz- seven; Haley Willbanks-seven; Angelina Osburn-six; Annie Shelton-six; Rebecca Davis-seven; Catlin Davis-six; Maggie Risley-six; Kayla Spradlin-six; Mackenzie Williams-six.
Submitted by Allison Dombek, age 10
FALL IMAGINATION
The grass seems to bow for me
The trees bend with the wind
The leaves fall like confetti
For this is nature and me
