Vision 2020, Civic Pride Committee announces that “Celebration of Flowers” will be the theme for the 2012 Fillmore Flower Show to be held April 14,15 at the Senior Center located at 533 Santa Clara St., Fillmore, California. The show will be free to the public during the hours of 1:00pm-4:00pm both Saturday & Sunday.

Entries will be accepted Saturday, April 14, between 7:30am to 10:30am. There will be one entry fee of $5.00 for each adult exhibitor, no matter how many entries are entered.
There will be no entry fee for youth entries.

A youth poetry, prose, or short essay contest with the theme being the same as the show theme, “Celebration of Flowers” will be held & entries displayed in the Youth Room along with the floral arrangements. Although adult entries must use flowers from their own yard, youth entry flowers may be from a relative’s yard, or designated mentor’s yard.

Entry is open to all, but competitive entries are limited to residents of Fillmore Unified School District.

Entry brochures will be available soon at City Hall, the Library, the Fillmore Historical Museum, & the Senior Center. Mandolin & violin music will be provided by Asher Smith on Saturday and Sunday.

The Fillmore Historical Museum has a scrapbook that documents the Fillmore Flower Show from 1922 to 1990. Notes taken from the scrapbook for May 5, 1922, stated that Fillmore schools had a group entry with a wildflower exhibit that “was something fine and beautiful…a set piece representing a rainbow and bearing the words, “Fillmore Fortune Favored.” Today wildflowers are protected against picking because their numbers have been decimated over the years with spray & loss of open land.