Orchid Show
Every March, the Naples Orchid Society holds their annual Orchid Show
and sale at the Naples
United Church of Christ on the corner of Seagate and Crayton Road.
This year marks the 36th show and sale. It will be held Friday March 27 thru
Sunday March 29.
Four
years ago Jim Connell of our club made contact with the Naples Orchid
Society(NOS) and proposed that we join with them to aid in
putting on the orchid show and sale. This will be the fourth year we
have been involved and it is now seamless.
Rotary supplies
sponsor money, sells tickets, and helps where needed to set up and run
the show. We supply lunches for the judges and judge teams (50 people
approx.) on Friday thanks to Tim Wynn of Wynn's Market.
Jim is a
member of the NOS and has arranged for tables as the church where we
hold the show does not have enough. The high school has been generous
in supplying tables and both delivering them and picking them up after
the show.
This year we have a special ticket available. Advance tickets are $10 and they qualify the holder for a chance in a drawing for
a 46 inch HDTV, entrance to the show for one day and a free PSA exam. Show entrance only is $6.00 and those tickers are sold at the door only.
We will have four orchid vendors at the show and hundreds of exhibits of orchids.
Rotary has a table selling tickets for select prizes. We will have 4
flowering orchids, a piece of jewelry made by Peggy Sealfon and a lamp
from Dave Alger of Whitman Designs.
Rotary receives all the
profits from the show for the charity of our choice. This year, as for
the last couple of years, Laces of Love is our selected charity. They provide shoes to needy children in Southwest Florida and many of the children receive the first new pair of shoes they have ever had.
The orchid society has about 130 members who are very active in volunteering to work at the show and place exhibits.
Please contact Jim Connell for more details.
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