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- By Elanor Seidenglanz -
The Rose Committee, chaired by Ernie Bettin, has approximately 16 members and is responsible for maintaining the three rose gardens here at LCG. The committee is broken into two groups which look after the gardens in the south and north campuses.
The garden that graces the main entrance has approximately 200 varieties of bushes. The members use a systemic fertilizer which nourishes and protects the bushes from insects and some diseases. During the growing season, members dead head the bushes every week by cutting off dead blooms. The beautiful blooms are harvested weekly and bouquets are given to Skilled Nursing and Assisted Living Centers, Resident Services, Administration, and other departments.
The residents of LCG and their guests are fortunate to have the pleasure of an abundant variety of trees, plants, ground covers, and flowers of every variety, color and size to be seen and admired. These are planted and maintained by a Landscape Contractor, Susan Angonia, under the direction of Kavin Ward.
Residents are encouraged to grow plants and space is available for this purpose. People grow a variety of plants and share them with grateful neighbors.
One member, Dorothy Roll, makes rose arrangements twice a week for the Fairway Reception Desk and the Marketing/Sales office. Other committee members deliver bouquets to the Lakeside reception desk and the Health Center. We are fortunate to have these people who make our surroundings so beautiful that it is a pleasure to walk around and enjoy. Many thanks.
Standing proudly in front of some of the beautiful rose bushes they tend to daily are some of the members of the Rose/ Landscape Committee: front row (L-R) Dee Johnston, Twylah Lawson, Colette Huber, Dorothy Roll, Milton Roll, Martha McCarter, Bob Arnold, Wilma Boggs and Ken Idol; back row (L-R) Tom Chapman, Wilma Weiser, Russ Whitman, Ernie Bettin, Chuck Love, Fran Senkowsky, and Marge Dodson.