The 5th annual Fillmore Flower Show, presented by Vision 2020, Civic Pride Committee, will take place April 13, 14 at the Fillmore Senior Center located at 533 Santa Clara Street. The theme selected for this year will be “Fiesta of Flowers” and those who are already at work making preparations for this year’s show are hoping to see many more youth created entries. It is hoped that providing a newly added class, Team Arrangements, within the Youth Arrangement Division, will attract groups of 2-4 young people that will work together to create an entry.

They could plan together their entry, bring their flowers from various relatives’ yards, along with any objects to be part of the arrangement between 7:30am-9:00am and create the entry working together.

Another opportunity for young people would be the Youth Composition Division where they might take a photograph depicting a fiesta of flowers or celebration with flowers, or make a collage of flower pictures or create some other original drawing or painting and then combine it with an original poem, or song or short essay on a single page. These entries need to have the name, age or grade level written on the back of the entry.

Youth entries are free and adult entries are still only $5.00 for unlimited entries. All who live within the Fillmore Unified School District which includes Piru and Bardsdale are eligible for the competition.

Posters will be put up soon and brochures explaining all details for the show will be placed at the City Hall, Library, Senior Center, El Dorado Park and other businesses in town, the first of March.

It takes many, many volunteers to put together a Flower Show and volunteers are always welcomed. If you would be able to help set up on Friday at 3pm, or to help Saturday morning getting entries carried in for placement between 7:30-10:30am, or just to help in a time slot as hostesses (standing or sitting in a room to see that nothing is touched or moved), please call Joanne King at 805-524-4904 or Linda Nunes at 805-524-3021.

Volunteering is a great way to get to know others in the community and share in this worthwhile effort that first began before World War I.