Millen Garden Club makes contribution to Millen Community House park project

Participants in the Millen Garden Club project are, from left, landscaping crew: Willie Drayton, Willie Newton, Kenny Wiggins and Linda Wiggins; and Millen Garden Club members showing off jasmine plants purchased with grant funds: Evelyn Young, Art Johnson, Emily Dickey, Misty Gay, Cindy Linder and helpers, Adalee Conway and Tripp Parker. (Staff photo by Deborah Bennett)

Millen Garden Club recently applied for and received a Community on My Mind Grant from the Garden Club of Georgia, Inc.

The grant of $200 was matched by the garden club, making a total of $400 that the club used to purchase jasmine plants that will be planted to cover the chain link fence behind the community house.

The Community on My Mind Grant Fund was established by The Garden Club of Georgia to support local garden club work in communities which provides benefit to its citizens. The funding for the grant program was made possible by a generous donation from the Georgia Power Foundation.

The Garden Club of Georgia was founded in 1928, and its mission is to promote beautification, conservation, and education.