A feast for one’s eyes

News Release
RR Centennial Committee

Hanging baskets are gracing newly painted lamp standards on Main St with a few more to go up on Atwood, at the town hall and in Hannam Park.
The special care and watering they require is being delivered with the Flowers Meals on Wheels brigade. Mark & Sue Douglas provided the trailer, Bob & Robin Jenson the tank, Gerry Marchuk the pump, and Cory Lindal the watering wand. Put that all together with the plumbing and fix-it skills of Reg Kaus and voila, all we need is you. Have a vehicle with a 2” trailer hitch and an hour a day to provide a little loving care. Sign up on the schedule posted at the Municipal Office.
Flower boxes and gardens throughout our little town are bursting with the season’s blooms. Terry Cooper on behalf of the Royal Canadian Legion, Branch 54 has been providing tender loving care for the beds gracing our Town Square.
And at the waterfront, Vera McCuaig and Pearl Ivall, two of the town’s leading green thumbs, have adorned the planter by the Hannam Park Canteen with an absolute feast of eye candy. To help the effort Susan and Ken Ploegman of Sundwall Nurseries near Stratton donated many bedding plants as their contribution. Susan, an O’Connor descendant, has Rainy River area roots.
The love of flowers is evident everywhere. The perennial beds established by the late Mrs. Ruby Katona are again contributing an summer explosion of lupines and other blooms next to her former home at 207 - 3rd Street.
It matters not which street in our town you wander down, Rainy River gardens offer a feast for the eye and the soul. All you have to do is partake. And the odd mosquito- well, that’s just to remind you, you’re still alive, even if it does look like heaven.