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Before Katrina our garden center was used by several Girl Scout troops for weekly meetings and even housed the annual cookie delivery during the years the armory was closed, while the National Guard was in Iraq. The Grow and Show Garden club also met at the center and held flower shows and Flower Show Schools there. For several years the Krewe of Kids had there parties there after the carnival parades.
We had memorial gardens at the Bay St Louis and the Waveland libraries. We had magnolias planted on Highway 90 for each club president ups tp 1981 and then planted at the walking track at the hospital, for which we planned the landscaping. A flowering crabapple tree was planted there to honor Ellis Cuevas for his years of publicizing our activities in the sea Coast Echo.
For many years we sponsored junior and Intermediate Garden Clubs. During Janet Duddings administration, we restored a roadside park that we had built in the 1950’s. During Nanette Murphree’s administration, we adopted a mile of Highway 90 to
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