Thursday, April 08, 2004

The Bowling Green Garden Club will celebrate the season next week with Spring Lights 2004.The event will begin Sunday and continue through April 17.During Spring Lights, Bowling Green residents who have dogwood trees or other flowering trees are asked to shine a spotlight on them from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. throughout the week, said Joyce Cloutier, president of the Bowling Green Garden Club.We want to celebrate the beauty of the trees at this time of year, she said. We focus on dogwoods because they are naturally blooming here.Cloutier said she is planning to spotlight her own trees.Im using a little spotlight I bought at a hardware store, she said. Some people use a white light.The celebration wont be just about the spotlights on trees. The following are other Spring Lights activities:An opening ceremony will be at 7 p.m. Monday at Fountain Square Park. Mary Keown, president of Garden Clubs of Kentucky, and Jo Jean Scott, director of the South Atlantic region of the National Garden Clubs, will speak. In case of rain, the ceremony will be at the Houchens Center, 1115 Adams St.Riverview at Hobson Grove will have a complimentary Twilight Tour of the grounds at dusk each night of Spring Lights.An open house will be from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. Wednesday at the Houchens Center, which is celebrating its 100th anniversary. A memorial for the late Casey Schott, a Bowling Green horticulturist, will be unveiled at 3 p.m. Daily News ·813 College St. ·PO Box 90012 ·Bowling Green, KY ·42102 ·270-781-1700