Nobleton Notes

The Nobleton Lions Club annual Draw and Fund- Raising Gala is being held this Saturday (June 14) and time is running out to get your tickets.

Tickets are available from Lions members, now at the plaza during operating hours. If you have a usual source for your tickets, please don't hesitate to get in touch.

This year, the ticket price has dropped to $40, and tickets are now for a single person not a couple, so singles pay less, and a couple buying two tickets will have two chances at the cash prizes, which total more than $9,000.

Where else can you have an exciting night out, not have to travel too far, while enjoying a hot dinner, dancing to DJ music, cash bar, and perhaps even pick up a bargain at the silent auction - all for $40 per person?

This event is the major fund-raiser for the club, and proceeds from the event go to sponsor numerous organizations in and around town. Your support is greatly appreciated by the Lions, and those who they support, in keeping with their motto, "We Serve."

For information on tickets, or on the event, please call Glen Gauslin at (905) 859-4456, or Manny Pereira at (905) 859-1331.

Nobleton United Church

Our Sunday services are 11:15 a.m.

Mark these events coming up on your calendars.

June 22, the St. Paul's Presbyterian Church Children's Choir will be joining us in our worship service. Also June 22, after enjoying the Children's Choir, we are all invited to our Church Picnic at Peter's Farm. June 23, is our Potluck Strawberry Supper at 6:30 pm, where strawberries and shortcake will be served for dessert.

St. Paul's

Presbyterian Church

The Prayer Group meets tonight (Wednesday) at 7:30 p.m.

The women's Thursday morning study is tomorrow at 9:30 a.m.

Join us this Sunday (June 15) at 9:45 a.m. as we celebrate Father's Day and welcome Rev. Paulette Brown to the pulpit. Nursery care (for children five years of age and younger) is provided during the service and Sunday school (for adults only) follows at 11 a.m.

Keep your eyes and ears posted for details about our Bible Fun Camp which will take place in July.

For more information about any of our activities or events, please contact the church office at (905) 859- 0843 or visit our Web site at www.stpaulsnobleton.ca

Nobleton seniors' activities

The winners of the June 3 bid euchre were (for the ladies) Helen Bible, Sandy Tower, Paula Latanville (for the men) Lou Curtis, Bill Groombridge and Herb Workman. June 11, we will play bid euchre at 7:30 p.m. June 24 is our Pot Luck Supper followed by euchre. Aug. 30, we travel by highway coach to beautiful Port Dover to lunch at the Erie Beach Hotel. This lunch will be spectacular. Afterwards, it is on to the theatre to see Outlaws, which is a musical. Departure and return times will be announced later. The cost per person is $80. We will accept post-dated cheques dated Aug. 15. Please contact Paula at (905) 859-2613 for details.

We hope to have a full bus as Port Dover is a lovely place to visit in the summer.

Horticulture

"June is bustin' out all over All over the meadow and the hill. Buds are bustin' outa bushes . . ."

I'm glad to see my butterfly bushes (buddleia davidii) have survived another winter and are bustin' out with strong new growth.

The little Japanese maple (acer palmatum dissectum . . . it has hand shaped deeply grooved leaves) that is still where I "healed it in" a couple of years ago is also covered in new growth. And would you believe the golden chain tree (laburnum) I planted two years ago in a sheltered corner has, in spite of this past bitterly cold winter and gnawing rodents, pulled through and is greeting June with a burst of growth. These beautiful small trees have hanging panicles of bright yellow flowers in spring. They are usually associated with European gardens especially in Britain and were thought not hardy enough to grow in our area. I made sure mine was covered in deep snow all winter to insulate it from the icy winter winds and this seems to have paid off.

I have at last unhilled my few roses and hopefully there will be no more frosts (last week the Tottenham area where I live had a heavy early morning frost that killed off many of the tender annuals my neighbours had planted and this week we've had temperatures in the 30s).

Speaking of roses, I have in my garden a hybrid perpetual (the variety between old garden roses and the modern hybrid tea roses) called "Frau Karl Druschki." This white rose with just a of suggestion of pink, a favourite of my mother, is hardy and, once established, an easy-care plant that first blooms in mid-June and continues to do so all season long. It can grow a metre high and the same wide, but of course can be kept in bounds by pruning in the fall after its leaves have fallen or in early spring before its leaves have unfurled.

Theoretically, roses in containers can be planted any time during the growing season (not during droughts). I dig a hole about 18 inches deep and the same wide in a place that gets at least six hours of sun each day. Then I carefully take the rose I've kept well watered out of the container (if the container is a paper compound, I just cut good slits in the side and cut the bottom off) and set it in the hole that I've partially back filled with dug out soil now mixed with compost or composted cattle manure, so that the top of the container soil is even with ground level. Now I fill in the remaining dug out soil around the container and gently press it down to eliminate any air pockets and leave a saucer like depression around the plant about an inch deep, which I fill with water four or five times. Bagged or bare root roses, best planted now, can be treated similarly, but I soak the roots in a pail of muddy water for a couple of hours or even over night and I make a mound in the partly filled hole and sit rose on it and gently spread the wet roots around it, pour in a litre or so of water before filling in the remaining soil. I give my newly planted roses some TLC for about a month until they're are growing vigorously. By the by roses like a heavy soil even clay but don't like 'wet feet' so add liberal amounts of compost to this type of soil and a couple of inches of gravel to the bottom of the hole.

"If the young Virginia creepers don't hug all the bejeebers out of all the morning glories on the fence just because its June . . . June . . . June!"

I'll tell you about some not often seen but easy to grow annuals next time.