Pick your posies at the Lions Club plant sale
The Batavia Lions Club will host its 34th annual Plant Day Sale on Saturday, May 9, when the Lions, manning hay wagons loaded with a variety of flowers, ready for planting and hanging baskets, will be roving through Batavia residential areas from 9 a.m. until 4 p.m. These hanging flower baskets are just in time for Mother's Day. Stationary wagons will be at the corner of Wilson and Water streets and at the 7-Eleven at Wilson and Prairie streets. On Sunday morning, May 10, a wagon will be at the corner of Wilson and Water streets to complete the flower sale.
Bedding plants that the Lions will have on the wagons are geraniums, begonias, impatiens, marigolds, petunias, alyssum, salvia, pansies and snapdragons. The hanging baskets available will this year will be with Million Bells and Dancing Lady flowers. Also new this year will be 41/2-inch pots of bacopa, million bells, lantana, non-stop begonia, torenia, sweet potato vine and licorice vine. All of our flowers are supplied by Schaefer Greenhouses at 120 S. Lake Street, Montgomery.
As in past years, they are asking the Boy Scouts and Scout Leaders from Troop 21 to help with this sale. The Scouts will man another roving wagon. Please come out and support Troop 21 and the Batavia Lions Club.
This plant sale is the Lions club main fundraiser and is a volunteer project of the Batavia Lions Club members. The funds raised during the plant sale are used to support Batavia community activities.
Fundraisers such as Lion Plant Day make it possible for the Lions to sponsor college scholarships and support its eyeglass program through the local schools and Dr. Rand Toney, the Batavia Foundation for Educational Excellence, the Batavia Public Library, Scouting, Tri-Cities Soccer, Fourth of July fireworks, and the Illinois Association for the Deaf and Blind and many other programs. The Lions are always ready to assist needy Batavians with glasses, hearing aids, and their related exams. For information, contact Lion Marshall Crane, (630) 879-7857 or Lion Don Rogus (630) 879-9298.