Canby Livability Coalition

The “Garden Spot” truly lived up to its name during the 2006 summer season with the amazing floral display in the beautiful baskets and planters in the Downtown Canby core and around Wait Park. The hanging & potted flowers also served as a “floral billboard” to show a healthy, thriving business core and served as a backdrop for our summer concert series and community activities. Our hometown pride really showed not only for our residents, but also to our visitors and prospective businesses.

The 2006 Flower Basket Program was supported through proactive citizen input combined with community partnerships. The Downtown Flower Basket committee would like to thank all the volunteers, organizations and businesses that were involved with the success of the 2006 program. Having citizens volunteering for the project has helped tremendously and has been a wonderful display of community spirit. The students were extremely proud of their accomplishment in growing the flowers and installing to the baskets. Canby Chamber of Commerce, Canby Business Development, Canby Livability and Canby High Horticulture/Ag Students have had an excellent experience working together in bringing this project full circle. A special thank you goes out the Canby Garden Club for teaming with the students throughout the program and to Aurora Landscaping for their professional maintenance services during the summer months.

The season now draws to a close and the baskets will be removed until next spring. Volunteers and students will be replacing the Downtown planters with winter pansies. The numerous letters of praise and support for the program that appeared in the Herald throughout the season were a boost to everyone involved with the baskets. Thank you to everyone in the community who went out of their way to give such wonderful compliments in written notes or in person. The committee would also like to acknowledge the Andrus family for contributing to the project by establishing the Flower Basket Project Fund in honor of Agatha Andrus. Contributions to the fund will help to continue the Flower Basket program and can be made through the Canby Chamber. For Downtown businesses who would like to continue the floral color continuity at their store fronts can order flowers or baskets before January 15^th through Bev Doolittle at the Canby Chamber 503-266-4666. If you have an interest in volunteering for the upcoming program please contact JillMarie Wiles at info@CanbyLivability.org or 503-263-4747.

The 2006 Flower Basket Project was embraced with enthusiasm, support and outstanding volunteerism. The committee would like to recognize that the success of this program is directly related to the pride that Canby citizens feel for their town. The baskets have become more than just beautiful flowers planted in downtown. They are a symbol of what makes Canby a community, a place where we all work, live and play.

CANBY LIVABILITY COALITION