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Community invited to Elverson Garden Club flower show BY FRANCINE FULTON
Council is doing a coffee tent with popcorn, cotton candy and other snacks. There will be cornhole and other games. We want people to come enjoy a time of being together.” A live auction will be held on Oct. 21 from 9 a.m. until the last item is sold. The auction will feature artwork and quilts, as well as jellies and jams and homemade yogurt donated each year by school families. Also up for bids will a fine dining experience, a Discovery Flight from Chester County Aviation, a photo package, an event at Flourish Flower Farm and a one-night stay at Fairville Inn, Chadds Ford.
After a three-year hiatus because of the pandemic, the Elverson Garden Club is resuming its annual flower show. The public is invited to view the entries on Saturday, Oct. 21, from noon to 4 p.m. in Detterline Hall at Saint Peter United Church of Christ (UCC), 1920 Ridge Road (Route 23), Knauertown. Admission is free. Saint Peter UCC will sell soup and baked goods for takeout in Detterline Hall during the flower show hours. The 2023 Elverson Garden Club flower show is being held for the first time at the church, which is the location of the club’s monthly meetings. Entries will be submitted in three major subject areas: artistic designs, horticultural specimens and botanical photography. The entries will be created and displayed around the theme “On the Radio.” Flower show entries will conform to standards established by National Garden Clubs Inc. Organizers are expecting up to 135 entries by club members. “The judging will take place before the show that morning. So the people visiting the show will be able to see who won and the ribbons,” explained club member Laura Alden, a member of the flower show committee. Alden pointed out that there are different subcategories in each of the major competition areas. In the horticulture category, people can submit plants or prized produce from their gardens. There is also a category for houseplants. “For the artistic category, some
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Displaying auction items are Conestoga Christian School students (front, from left) Natalie Fetzer, Analiese Schreier, Ava Pederson and (back) Brynn Carter, teacher Eirené Groff and student Maya Tumolo.
BY FRANCINE FULTON
2023 marks the 50th anniversary of the Conestoga Christian School (CCS) chicken barbecue and auction, which will be held this year on Friday and Saturday, Oct. 20 and 21. All proceeds will benefit the school, which offers classes for students in preschool through 12th grade. The event will begin with the barbecue dinner on Oct. 20. Diners may purchase their chicken in a drive-through format from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., or they may choose to dine in the school gymnasium from
4:30 to 6:30 p.m. “We are bringing available for purchase. After the barbecue, there will back the dine-in option. We have not had that since COVID,” be a 50th anniversary celebration, explained Michelle Parris, CCS with activities located behind the school. First up will be admissions director. “A lot of our families “Our hope for Friday a student Powderpuff Champiare happy to be able night is that it will be Football onship, followed by an to eat their barbecue meals together again.” a homecoming feel.” alumni soccer game. “ We are inviting Dinners can also be our alumni back and the whole CCS taken out from the gymnasium. Also on Oct. 20, a gift certificate community,” said Caroline Greenly, store will be open outside the who is the school’s new events and school, and then it will move inside marketing coordinator. “Our hope to the gymnasium. There will also for Friday night is that it will be a be homemade apple dumplings homecoming feel. Our Student
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