Local garden club is marking 85 years

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Photo by William D. Lewis | The Vindicator: Mahoning Garden Club was organized in 1927 and current members are celebrating its 85th anniversary. Seated, from left to right, are Joyce Cervone of Boardman, vice president; Barbara Wigle, Youngstown; Mary Jane Harbison, Hubbard; Frances Kupec, Youngstown; JoAnn Ziemianski, Boardman; and Marian Glover, Youngstown. Standing are Carol Bigelow, Youngstown; Barbara Anzivino, Youngstown; Jo-Ann Kaschak, Canfield; Marilyn Chiu, Canfield; Joanne Lewis of Hubbard, president; Delores Didden of Canfield, treasurer; Mary Ann Anderson, Canfield; and Dorothy DeChicco of Canfield, secretary. Absent from the picture are Wayla Agee, Youngstown; Bea Armbrecht (associate member), Collingwood, Ontario; Lois Boulis, Canfield; Sharyn Fees, Poland; Laura Mastro, Austintown; and Judy Malone, Poland.

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Members of the Mahoning Garden Club are celebrating the 85th anniversary of its founding. At this time there are 20 members who strive to promote the club’s objective to stimulate an interest in gardening, cooperate in the protection of native flora and to encourage civic planting.

Toward that end, members sponsored the development of the Herb Garden in Fellows Riverside Gardens in Youngstown and continue to provide funds for its maintenance.

The club is affiliated with other local, state and national gardening groups, which include The Garden Forum of the Greater Youngstown Area, The Garden Club of Ohio and The National Garden Clubs, Inc., which is the largest volunteer gardening organization in the world.

Club officers for 2012 are Joanne Lewis, president; Joyce Cervone, vice president; Dorothy DeChicco, secretary; and Delores Didden, treasurer. Along with Frances Kupec, they also serve on the group’s Board of Gardeners.

Standing committee members and their areas of responsibility are: Lois Boulis, auditing and birds; JoAnn Ziemianski, auditing; Barbara Wigle, conservation; DeChicco, friendship; Jo-Ann Kaschak, horticulture; and Cervone, publicity and yearbook.

The club will meet at noon April 4 in the Kidston Classroom at the Davis Education and Visitor Center in Fellows Riverside Gardens. Gary Pilcher, Animal Charities board chairman, will be the guest speaker, and hostesses will be Kaschak, Kupec and Wayla Agee.