Meetings- Second Tuesday of the month at the Forties Community Centre.
Flower Show & Tea at the end of August
President - Pansy Hiltz phone: 689-2693
Secretary - Susan Connors phone: 689-2605
Treasurer - Ethel Feener phone: 689-2501
The Forties Garden Club was started in 1952. It’s purpose then was to get assistance in landscaping club members own properties and for Community beautification. Today the main purpose of the club is rural beautification and service to the community. Members have created and maintain gardens at the churches and at the Forties community Centre. A new garden project is planned for the corner of Fraxville road. Another service the club provides to the community is the catering of lunches to the bereaved after funerals in the area and the club delivers cheer boxes to shut- ins at Christmas.
The Forties Garden club holds it meetings at the Forties Community Centre and they actively support the Centre with improvements such as benches placed in the porch of the Centre, with disabled signs and a picnic area and members raise and maintain the flag pole and flag at the Centre. The club also donates to the New Ross Volunteer Fire Department and to the Children’s Wish Fund.
The club meets the second Tuesday of the month and meetings often include some learning activity or a guest speaker and the evening ends with a lunch. The club has an summer outing most years and members may choose to attend the annual provincial conference of the Nova Scotia Association of Garden clubs as well as the annual District Meetings hosted in turn by each of the clubs in a designated district. The club also hosts an annual Flower Show and Tea and sponsors a Children’s Garden Project with certificates of participation and awards for all children who enter. During the New Ross Christmas Festival, the Forties Garden Club sponsors a Christmas Tree decorating contest.
Main Fundraisers:
Valentine’s Day Turkey Dinner Delivery in the community
Chinese Auction
The Forties Garden club welcomes new members and is always willing to help with gardening questions.
