Lake Bloomers Garden Club members, spouses and friends - about 40 in all - enjoyed a wonderful Christmas banquet, put on by the Poppy Team, December 8, at the St. Louis De Montfort Church.
Susanne, Edith, Kathryn and Denice organized the event and cooked two turkeys with stuffing, potatoes and gravy.
A superb array of dishes to accompany the turkeys were brought by the members along with delectable appetizers and desserts. Poinsettias adorned each dinner table and Christmas music played in the background.
Speeches were kept to a minimum. Maureen Loebus thanked the Poppy Team for organizing the annual Christmas Social.
She also said she must step down from president's chair, as she is travelling a lot more these days. Pauline Balmer agreed to take the position.
We still need a vice president for 2011.
One of our members brought a keyboard for the night and after dinner Edith introduced the New Dawn Singers.
With Judy Born at the helm, the group entertained with several delightful Christmas Carols, then encouraged us all to sing-a-long with requests from each table.
At Christmas time we generally do a charity draw in lieu of a 50/50 and our draw this year brought in $145.00.
The winning ticket was held by Mikki Welsh who chose to donate the funds to Community Services.
Each table had a secretly marked chair and the person sitting on that chair took home one of the lovely traditional red poinsettias as a door prize.
With all the eating, socializing and singing, we didn't talk about gardening much, but plan lots of interesting speakers and garden tours for 2011.
Our January meeting will be Tuesday, January 11, at 1 P.M. at the Catholic Church on Fern Road in Lake Cowichan. We thought this would help to get people out that don't like driving at night in the winter months.
The Snowdrop team will be hosting the January 11 meeting, and guests are welcome. Stop by and see what we are all about.
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