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McHenry Garden Club is active in many community interests. Committees focus on specific projects.

Garden Week 2010 in McHenry celebrated - see BLOG photos and news.

City Beautification

Members of the McHenry Garden Club worked with several McHenry Parks & Recreation employees planting the planters along Riverside Drive in the spring of 2009. Club members also helped on a weekly basis with the weeding and cleaning along the Riverwalk and the Wheeler Park Fen.

FRONT: Janet Adams, Dorothy Kowalcyzk, Carol Riha, Milena Buck, Barb Patterson / BACK: Sue Bourassa, Carolynn Gunder and Pat Gorniak. Not pictured Maureen Norton.

Below, McHenry Garden Club members Dorothy Kowalcyzk, Eileen Lane and Sue Bourassa, President, accept the National Garden Week Proclamation from McHenry Mayor Sue Low at the City Council Meeting on June 1st, 2009.

The garden club received the following signed Proclamation from the City Council for various community services.

Proclamation

WHEREAS, National Garden Club was established in order to stimulate the love and knowledge of gardening and to aide in the protection of native trees, birds, shrubs and wild flowers; and

WHEREAS, the National Garden Club encourages the accomplishment of at least one community garden project each year, civic planting, and the establishment of a community garden club; and

WHEREAS, the McHenry Garden Club was instituted in January 2004 and embraces the goals and objectives of the National Garden Club; and

WHEREAS, the McHenry Garden Club hopes to foster and stimulate a love of gardening, knowledge of gardening practices, aid in the protection of native trees, birds, shrubs and wild flowers.

NOW THEREFORE, I, Susan E. Low, Mayor of McHenry, do hereby proclaim the week of June 7th 2009 as National Garden Week in the City of McHenry. I urge all citizens to recognize the efforts of the McHenry Garden Club and to support its goals and objectives as stated herein.

Passed and approved this 1 day of June, 2009.

Signed: Sue Low
Mayor

ATTEST: Janice Jones
City Clerk