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Garden Club adds color to community

The month of May means the Northwoods Garden Club soon will be busy planting flowers in several prominent locations in Iron Mountain and Kingsford.

The Garden Club is a perennial in its beautification efforts. If you’ve enjoyed the blooming colors at such sites as the Dickinson County Courthouse on Stephenson Avenue, Gazebo Park and Kingsford City Hall and the Veterans Memorial atop Pine Mountain, thank the Garden Club.

The Gazebo Park, in particular, has been a focus of the club since 1994. It now boasts not just the gazebo but benches, walkways and a Victorian-style light, surrounded by shrubs and trees cultivated over the years by the club.

Last year, it coordinated with the Kiwanis Club on the Tot Lot playground on Forest Street.

But the club needs help to continue its efforts. Not in extra hands, though they welcome new members.

No, the club needs donations to fund the thousands of new flowers and other vegetation it acquires to replenish beds each year, along with supplies to tend those plantings through the season.

A non-profit, the club’s efforts are sustained through community business contributions and individual donations. It can only do as much as donations will support.

So with planting season set to begin, it’s time as well to provide a few dollars to make local communities a little more colorful and growing.

Donations may be made to: Northwoods Garden Club, P.O. Box 104, Iron Mountain, MI 49801.

A clip-out coupon for mailing in donations also can be found on page 8-B in Saturday’s edition of The Daily News.

For more information on the Northwoods Garden Club and its work, contact club president Julie Dellies at 906-282-4995.

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