It's time once again to say goodbye for a few months as May is always the last meeting of our year for the Hammond Garden Club.....and it has been a wonderful year!
We began with the President's Tea learning all the terrific ideas that we were to try to achieve in this coming year and we received our fantastic new year books with all of our mug shots on the front cover which everyone loved...great job Karen Nelson! We have learned so many things from bee keeping and bee appreciation, to making arrangements and wreaths from fresh, dried and silk flowers, to making many different things from gourds including some beautiful jewelry and information about the life cycle of the butterfly.
We made two road trips the first to Natchez to see an antebellum home and a cemetery (sounds scary.....but not) and last month to St. Francisville to view another plantation and wonderful gardens. I must say we ate our way through both cities with such a delectable array of foods to choose from and to say nothing of what fun we had in the souvenir shops! Many of us also attended the Louisiana Garden Club Federation's fall meeting in Covington, and it seems no matter where we go someone always walks over to our table and says they want to come and sit with us because we always have so much fun!
We have also donated our time to many community projects; at Christmas we decorated tree(s) at North Oaks Hospital and the Cate Square gazebo. Several of our members work at the Zemurray Park collection of hazardous waste, several work on the scrapbook that has given us many deserved (because of Phyllis Mire) points in the Cleanest City contest that has been won by the City of Hammond for 10 straight years, and those that attend the Keep Hammond Beautiful meetings and several that volunteer their time at the Fuller House!
But I guess the event we are most proud of was our Easter Parade of Fashions Show! (Thank you Daily Star for the wonderful coverage)! The place was fabulous, everything about it was so elegant, the clothes from Dillard's were stunning and all the men escorts in tuxedos had all the ladies ooh la la-ing!!! It was our fund raiser for the year and we were able to make a generous donation to the Louisiana Children's Discovery Center. They are doing so much teaching the children about litter prevention and beautification which is what the garden club is also all about.
.....and so with a little sadness we have come to our last meeting of the year. Held at Lee Collins Bed & Breakfast, it's THE place to go for the ambiance, a great time, good food (we had it catered this time), seems like every event we have or attend there is always a gastronomic delight for us to indulge in! Carolyn Schwebel our President began the meeting with the usual prayer and Pledge of Allegiance and announcements of Garden of the Month for April awarded toMichael and Eleanor Delaney at 804 Robert Street. The Link Award had not as yet been awarded.
This last meeting is also where we install new officers which was charmingly done by Linda Ryan. Karen Granier is to be our new Secretary and thankfully Peggy Dunn is back as our Parliamentarian. All the rest of the officers are still very pleased with their jobs and are staying in their positions, (seems as though we are all very serendipitous)!
In all that we do there is an element of creativity, of care for others and care for our community and our nation, sometimes we even create peak experiences such as our fund raiser and helping the city to win ten years in a row the title of Cleanest City. All these things make us proud to be a member not only of the Hammond Garden Club but also of the District VI Garden Club Federation and the Deep South Region of the National Garden Clubs. We do our best to unify and beautify our homes, gardens, our city and our nation, meet some wonderful new friends along the way and enjoy always being with our old friends.....and as the saying goes "Every day on this side of the flower bed is a good day"! See you again in August, have a great summer and may God bless America.
by Linda Broussard she is a member of the Hammond Garden Club
We began with the President's Tea learning all the terrific ideas that we were to try to achieve in this coming year and we received our fantastic new year books with all of our mug shots on the front cover which everyone loved...great job Karen Nelson! We have learned so many things from bee keeping and bee appreciation, to making arrangements and wreaths from fresh, dried and silk flowers, to making many different things from gourds including some beautiful jewelry and information about the life cycle of the butterfly.
We made two road trips the first to Natchez to see an antebellum home and a cemetery (sounds scary.....but not) and last month to St. Francisville to view another plantation and wonderful gardens. I must say we ate our way through both cities with such a delectable array of foods to choose from and to say nothing of what fun we had in the souvenir shops! Many of us also attended the Louisiana Garden Club Federation's fall meeting in Covington, and it seems no matter where we go someone always walks over to our table and says they want to come and sit with us because we always have so much fun!
We have also donated our time to many community projects; at Christmas we decorated tree(s) at North Oaks Hospital and the Cate Square gazebo. Several of our members work at the Zemurray Park collection of hazardous waste, several work on the scrapbook that has given us many deserved (because of Phyllis Mire) points in the Cleanest City contest that has been won by the City of Hammond for 10 straight years, and those that attend the Keep Hammond Beautiful meetings and several that volunteer their time at the Fuller House!
But I guess the event we are most proud of was our Easter Parade of Fashions Show! (Thank you Daily Star for the wonderful coverage)! The place was fabulous, everything about it was so elegant, the clothes from Dillard's were stunning and all the men escorts in tuxedos had all the ladies ooh la la-ing!!! It was our fund raiser for the year and we were able to make a generous donation to the Louisiana Children's Discovery Center. They are doing so much teaching the children about litter prevention and beautification which is what the garden club is also all about.
.....and so with a little sadness we have come to our last meeting of the year. Held at Lee Collins Bed & Breakfast, it's THE place to go for the ambiance, a great time, good food (we had it catered this time), seems like every event we have or attend there is always a gastronomic delight for us to indulge in! Carolyn Schwebel our President began the meeting with the usual prayer and Pledge of Allegiance and announcements of Garden of the Month for April awarded toMichael and Eleanor Delaney at 804 Robert Street. The Link Award had not as yet been awarded.
This last meeting is also where we install new officers which was charmingly done by Linda Ryan. Karen Granier is to be our new Secretary and thankfully Peggy Dunn is back as our Parliamentarian. All the rest of the officers are still very pleased with their jobs and are staying in their positions, (seems as though we are all very serendipitous)!
In all that we do there is an element of creativity, of care for others and care for our community and our nation, sometimes we even create peak experiences such as our fund raiser and helping the city to win ten years in a row the title of Cleanest City. All these things make us proud to be a member not only of the Hammond Garden Club but also of the District VI Garden Club Federation and the Deep South Region of the National Garden Clubs. We do our best to unify and beautify our homes, gardens, our city and our nation, meet some wonderful new friends along the way and enjoy always being with our old friends.....and as the saying goes "Every day on this side of the flower bed is a good day"! See you again in August, have a great summer and may God bless America.
by Linda Broussard she is a member of the Hammond Garden Club