The Sunnyvale Garden Club

SGC RECEIVED THE FOLLOWING AWARDS FOR CALENDAR YEAR 2022, AT THE SPRING CONVENTION

Gold Status, Large Group

President’s Report – 1st Place

Beautification Project – 1st Place

Landscaping of Public/Religious Grounds – 1st Place

Community Service Award – Citation

Club Program – 1st Place

Yearbook – 1st Place

Multiple Awards for our Youth Education Program with Sunnyvale Schools

Upcoming Sunnyvale Garden Club Ways and Means Event, “A Magical Musical Night”, April 29th, 2023, at Sunnyvale Middle School Cafetorium.

Check it out!! BROCHURE AND RAFFLE ITEMS

The next Sunnyvale Garden Club meeting will be Tuesday, January 10, 2023 at 10:00 AM.  Jim Burt

will talk to us about growing vegetables in containers.  Afterwards, we will present Joan Perry with

a plant for her new garden and share lunch.  We hope to see everyone there.

Twas 2 weeks before Christmas and all through the town,

shopping and decorating and running around.

The tables were set at the Church with care, in hopes all the members would soon be there.

When what would appear as it got close to the hour were all the Garden Club members in Christmas attire.

We all found our seats and were blessed with a bag, lots of surprises inside to be had.

All the tables alive with fun and chatter, suddenly grew quiet and I thought, “What’s the matter”?

I turned around to see with a smile,

the Sunnyvale High School Choir, singing for a while.

The food we were served, was so yummy, we sighed with delight as it found our tummy!

There were poppers, door prizes and the best table prize too.

Announcements and plans discussed for post 2022.

When all the business and festivities came to an end, we gathered our goodies and got hugs from our friends.

As we left out the door, we heard from our hostesses with delight…

“MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ALL YA’LL, AND TO ALL A GOOD NIGHT!” Happy New Year too!

The entertainment was so wonderful!! We had a surprise visit from the Sunnyvale High School specialty choir.

With Fall comes the changing of the flowers in the Town East Blvd. median to welcome visitors to Sunnyvale. SGC members Mary Coon, Debbie Wood, Donna Moore, Laurie Sparhawk, Nancy Keim, Darlene Eberwein, Tameka Lewis-Baker, Faye Nabors, and Jeanette Hobbs all participated in this beautification project on October 18^th after Jonie and Matt Johnson trimmed and cleaned up the beds to prepare them for planting pansies.  The ladies also planted pansies and ornamental cabbage in the containers at the Doris Padgett Library and the Fire Station.  In addition, now that the statue and plaque SGC donated in memory of Doris Padgett has been installed, they also planted daffodils and violas in front of the statue by the front door of the library.

June was making Kokedama Japanese plant balls. July was making decoupaged flowerpots. August was making framed art using pressed and dried flowers. Thank you, Barbara Kline, for your wonderful project ideas and the time and energy to put these events together!

LONG CREEK ASSISTED LIVING AND MEMORY CARE – June 6, 2022

Nine Sunnyvale Garden Club members, one guest, three Long Creek residents and the Activity Director at Long Creek participated in a beautification project at Long Creek Assisted Living and Memory Care.  Our club was awarded a $250 “Plant America” grant to plant an herb garden in the Memory Care courtyard to be used as Aromatherapy. We also beautified the main courtyard raised beds with Lantana and flowers grown from seed by the residents. The work was completed in June.

THE DORIS PADGETT LIBRARY AND FIRE STATION – JUNE 6, 2022

SGC members Mary Coon, Jonie Johnson, Donna Moore, Laurie Sparhawk, Cristie Carter-Stewart, and Nancy Keim planted, fertilized and mulched annual flowers in the main Town East Blvd. landscape bed, under the Sunnyvale monument sign. Also, trimmed and mulched other two beds in the median on Town East. They cleaned up, fertilized and mulched the landscape the landscape bed at the library and planted annual flowers in raised planters and urns at the library and fire station.

SUNNYVALE ISD ADMIN BLDG CLEANUP AND MULCH – June 14, 2022

SGC members Mary Coon and Debbie Wood picked weeds, fertilized perennials, and heavily mulched the landscape beds at the entry of the SISD Administration Building.

The current Beautification Committee members are Mary Coon-Chair, Donna Moore,Jonie Johnson and Debbie Wood. They hand water planters and urns daily during the hot season, maintain and hand water the Library and Administration Bldg. beds as needed, maintain the Town East beds, and ensure that the town sprinklers are watering the flowers on Town East sufficiently.

At the Capping Ceremony of Sunnyvale High School (May 25, 2022), Joyce Taylor and Sylvia Carter presented the following 2022 Scholarships:

Each of the following received $500 Scholarships:

Sophia Westwood, Leah Mathews, Hannah Lawless, Sam Habashy, Brantley Baker, Emily Abraham

These 3 gentlemen received $500 Volunteer awards:

Grant Conaway, Preston Conaway, Jarrett Stewart