STONE HARBOR — There’s a rosy outlook for the Garden Club of Stone Harbor’s annual plant and bake sale, May 6 and 7.
Banished into the topsoil of Second Avenue traffic islands, which club members plant resulting in a profusion of colorful blossoms, are trampled feelings expressed by club President Karen Lane at Borough Council’s Tue., Feb. 15 meeting.
At that time Lane, accompanied by members sporting the club’s white sweatshirts who stood as she spoke, rehearsed how the borough’s Sail Into Summer weekend, always the Mothers Day Weekend, was traditionally the weekend the club held its fund raising sale.
For the first time in a decade, this year happens to be the first weekend in May. The borough-backed Sail Into Summer weekend May 7-8 event will close 96th Street between Second and Third avenues. That, said Lane, coupled with a proposed then recanted, shift in sale location from the water tower parking lot to the firehouse, done without asking, she said, would surely deter sales.
From among an estimated 150, the club hopes to grow sufficient profit to allow members to plant the traffic islands from the Avalon border to its Memory Garden at 121st Street.
After meeting with club members and borough officials, it was decided that the club would retain its water town parking lot sales space on Fri., May 6 (always a pre-sale day, said Lane), and Sat., May 7 from 7 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Borough Council approved the club’s license application at its Tue., March 1 meeting. The normal $60 application fee was waived for the club.
As Mayor Suzanne Walters promised at the March 1 meeting, the borough met with the club and struck a compromise around the Sail Into Summer weekend.
As part of that agreement, said Lane, the borough will carry place notice of the club’s sale on a mailing sent to all residents with a general mailing. The borough has also agrred to advertise the plant and bake sale on its advertising. That will also allow police to assist directing where the sale is being held.
Lane hopes the crowds will continue to buy the club’s plants and flowers, which include bedding plants, impatiens, and geraniums, herbs, tomatoes, Mandeville and hanging baskets.
“It is a substantial amount to move,” said Lane.
Pre-sale order forms will be included in the mailing to residents.
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