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Garden Club decorates Rose Garden for Memorial Day
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Great Bend Garden Club honored Memorial Day with bouquets of geraniums surrounding the memorial statue in the Great Bend Cemetery Rose Garden.
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Great Bend Garden Club Officers for 2021-22 are beginning left: Pam Sweeney, Treasurer; Jeannine Girton, Vice President; Alice Young, President, and Carol Woodmansee, Secretary.

Eleven members of Great Bend Garden Club met for their final meeting of the year on May 20. President Nancy Williams opened the meeting with The Gardener’s Creed.  

Geraniums were purchased for decorating the Great Bend Cemetery’s Rose Garden for Memorial Day. Names were drawn to see who could retrieve them following the holiday. 

Programming and hosting meetings for the upcoming year were planned and the following members were elected as officers for the upcoming year: President – Alice Young; Vice-President - Jeannine Girton; Secretary, Carol Woodmansee; Treasurer, Pam Sweeney.

Club members shared this spring’s flower gardening experiences with each other as they enjoyed strawberry shortcake furnished by member Delores Baker.

The next meeting of Garden Club will be next September on the third Thursday morning of the month (Sept. 15) with the location not definitely determined because of the relocation of the Extension Office.