NOVEMBER, 1983
CIVIC GARDEN CENTRE — GARDEN TOPICS & EVENTS NEWSLETTER
MESSAGE TO MEMBERS... by Gordon D. Wick, Executive Director
Second
and
third
place
door prizes
for each day were donated by Milne House Garden Club, Garden Club of
Toronto and the Civic Garden Centre’s
THANK YOU VOLUNTEERS
Trellis Shop.
You've done it again - An outstanding turnout of volunteers made the weekend a real pleasure and what a success! Our 1983 Cornucopia under the chairmanship of Camilla Dalglish was fruly
Recognition of donations must include a very big thank you to Loblaws who once again donated the magnificent potted mums which allowed us to
outstanding.
lobby in addition to gracing our stage display in the Garden Hall which was set up as our coffee shop. Sales of these mum plants add considerably to our fund raising efforts.
We promoted with exten-
sive extra publicity through publicity notices mailed to groups, paid newspaper ads in local papers as well as the
Star “Neighbours” section and the Globe and Mail special edition on craft shows. We were very lucky to receive recognition by the media and free publicity included my guest interview on Art
Drysdale’s Sat. morning
garden show on CFRB - 1010 am, as well as coverage by City TV Channel 57 Cable 7 encompassing an interview of Camilla Dalglish during Cornucopia,
stage the wall of living colour in our
Our sale of bulbs and plants went very well indeed with virtually all the spring flowering bulbs sold out. We have only a limited supply of paperwhite narcissus and amaryllis left for our pre-Christmas sales. Christmas Greens and Sparkles proved
shown on the Saturday evening news.
very
We are very grateful for this outstanding help in boosting the attendance. Our 1983 admission ticket sales ex-
greater emphasis next year when we have set the dates slightly closer to the Christmas season. (Nov.2nd to the 4th).
popular
and
I
think
deserves
ceeded 3,000 approximately doubling
last year’s attendance figures.
Comments from the public and from our craft vendors reasure us we have a
I do want to thank Floralight Gardens for donating 3 table-top light units as
very high quality show and that is the way we want to keep it.
the major door prizes for each of the
three daily draws and also a grand prize of a 3-tier Light Garden. The draw for the
grand
prize
will
Edwards Memorial 10th of November..
be held at the
Lecture
on
the
All other things aside, the whole operation of Cornucopia couldn’t even be conceived without you - our active, dedicated volunteer members. Thank you all.