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Avondale Garden Club Celebrates 80 Years
Event draws Mayor, local officials, and metro area gardening experts.
Nearly 60 residents of Avondale Estates and friends converged recently to celebrate the 80th anniversary of the local garden club.
The Avondale Estates Garden club was founded in 1931. The celebration took place June 5, which was during National Garden Week.
During the festivities, Avondale Mayor Ed Rieker highlighted the Avondale Estates Garden Club's accomplishments during the last eight decades. The first project was the planting of 253 abelia bushes between Covington Highway and South Avondale Road in 1932, according to a release.
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The fragrant hedge is distinctive in the metro Atlanta area and part of what makes Avondale an "enchanted forest," according to residents.
The mayor also praised the current garden club president Faye Boyd for her dedication and work in the community, including the annual planting of the East and West Entrance signs and flower boxes at the clock tower.
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Volunteers from the garden club have funded and completed the plantings for many years with the help of expert city employees.
Reception attendees included Avondale Estates Commissioner and Mayor Pro Tem David Milliron; the president of the DeKalb Federation of Garden Clubs, Inc., Wanda Moore; and past garden club president Rigby Duncan, as well as several other officers from the DeKalb Federation. Lorene Faulkenberry, director of the Redbud District, Garden Club of Georgia, Inc., and former district director Joy Zaidan also attended.
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