| Fruitvale: Communities In Bloom |
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Farmers Market Gardens
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Downtown Flower Baskets
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| Communities In Bloom Project Album | | | Making improvements to your yard, garden, or store front?? Adding a new and improved floral display to your building, church, or school?
Please support Communities in Bloom by letting us know about your projects. We are asking you to submit before and/or after photos, or one of our committee members will take photos for you. These will be added to the album that will be shown to the judges to demonstrate that community groups and individuals are supporting our entry in the program.
Contact Holly at 367-2116 for more information. | | | | Fruitvale in Bloom Door Hanger | | | Does someone in your neighborhood or on your walk route deserve recognition for special effort in their yard, residence, business or boulevard for helping make our community “bloom”? If so, the Village of Fruitvale and the Communities in Bloom Committee invite you to stop by the Village Office and for a donation of $1.00 you can pick up a laminated “door hanger” to recognize their effort. You can present this attractive acknowledgment of achievement to them in person, or, if you prefer, just place it on their door handle to surprise them. For an extra $1.00 the Village Office will mail it to the recipient on your behalf. All donations will go to the Communities in Bloom efforts.
If you are a lucky recipient of the Fruitvale In Bloom Door Hanger, please leave it on your door knob until the judges come to town to show that someone thinks you are doing a great job in keeping Fruitvale “blooming”.
| | | | Fruitvale Community in Bloom Accomplishments | | | We are proud of the positive contributions to the area, including participation and coordination with other groups, to achieve the following:
In 2006 and 2007:
Downtown gardens, clean-up and maintenance creation and maintenance of new gardens along Main Street;
Curbing for Main Street gardens;
Large stone planters in downtown core; Hanging basket donation program;
Trash to Treasure Days;
Hummer Days;
Commemorative Benches;
Spring bulb explosion (1500 bulbs planted in downtown core…just wait for spring!);
Fund raising for historical mural project;
May Days float;
Information brochure;
Two years entry in the CiB program
In 2008:
Mural project completed;
Xeriscape garden in front of Liberty Market started;
Underground water for Pole Yard Garden;
Six cement planters downtown;
Annual garden at pole yard;
Hanging baskets;
Garden contest;
Garden Tour with Friends of the Library;
May Days Float;
Cemetery xeriscape garden started;
In 2008 Fruitvale was awarded 4 Blooms and won our category in the CiB competition.
In 2009:
Liberty Foods Xeriscape Garden completed;
Cemetery Xeriscape Garden completed;
New composted soil mixed & all planters re-filled;
New Bulletin Board installed;
New Gateway Signs designed & ordered; One installed at east end of Village;
Haines Park and McInnis Little League Fields redone;
Erosion Repair work done on Columbia Gardens Road;
May Days Celebration expanded;
Canada Day Celebration at newly named Creekside Community Park;
Atco Wood Products 50th Anniversary – planning underway for Tree Park Plantings;
Re-cycling yard re-done as well as extending the parking lot;
In 2009 Fruitvale received 5 blooms for our effort in our third Communities in Bloom competition. The judges were very pleased with the community involvement in our Village.
In 2010, Fruitvale took a break from competition but achieved the following:
Partnered with Village, CiB, and Government funding to hire summer student Leanne Brace, to help in the Village. She maintained gardens, trimmed trees, started Fruitvale Memorial Cemetery project identifying gravesites and documenting repairs need there;
Redwood and Vale Community projects;
Upgraded the handicap access, girls’ change rooms and installed a new handicapped accessible washroom at the Beaver Valley Arena;
Applications for a Community Garden sent out and still being pursued;
Heritage Walk planned and is still ongoing in 2011;
Tweedsmuir Trails built;
Scout Camp renovations and upgrades;
Mazzochi park upgrades;
Creekside Community Park additions;
In 2011:
New Sport Courts installed over the deteriorating tennis courts;
Upgrading and playground equipment replacement at Haines Park;
Cemetery project ongoing by the Village staff;
Memorial Rock for the Fruitvale Memorial Cemetery undertaken by CiB. $6,000 in funding obtained from the Columbia Basin Trust and the Regional District of Kootenay Boundary and the Village will install it;
Partnered with CiB and the Village to hire summer student Aaron Boss. No government funding was available;
Xeriscape gardens installed at Valley Petro Canada and Falkins Insurance. The owners have partnered with CiB to purchase and plant five new planters.
To read more about Communities in Bloom visit their website at Communities In Bloom
| | | | Friends of the Library Garden Tour | | | | The Friends of the Beaver Valley Public Library and the Beaver Valley Blooming Society are looking for gardens for their bienial Beaver Valley Garden Tour. If you are interested in showcasing your garden, please contact Mary Ann at 367-9635. | | | | Container Competition | | | Create a "container" that may be a traditional, but outstanding, hanging basket or pot. Or your entry may be a non traditional container of any shape, size or dimension. Now is the time to try one of those great ideas you have been planning, but never got around to completing! You may enter in any of three categories: residential, non residential (business, church, etc.) or youth (age 15 and under). Contest judging will take place mid July, just before the CIB judges arrive to adjudicate our community.
Get your imagination and creativity flowing now!! Further details will be announced in the next few weeks.
| | | | Flowering Fruitvale | | | The Flowering Fruitvale flower basket campaign which helps with the costs incurred for the purchase, installation and maintenance of the downtown hanging flower baskets is underway again this year. Your donations help sponsor a beautiful flower-filled basket, supplied by Allan Rothwell of Nipkow’s Greenhouse.
Donations of $25 and $50 may be made in recognition of a special person, or an event such as a birth, anniversary, or birthday and will be acknowledged on the Village website and on the board at the Village Office. We will also send a card to the person of your choice to advise that a donation has been made in their honour. Donations of any value are greatly welcomed and appreciated however only those donations of $25 or more will be recognized on the board. All donations are tax deductible.
The Village of Fruitvale hangs approximately 50 baskets each summer. If you are interested in sponsoring a basket, please visit the Village Office to make your donation and take pride in “FLOWERING FRUITVALE”.
We want to thank everyone who donated to the past “Flowering Fruitvale” campaigns. Your support of our community is greatly appreciated.
| | | | Fruitvale in Bloom - Background | | | The idea to bring Communities in Bloom to Fruitvale was proposed in the spring of 2005 by the Mayor and Council. In order to determine if there was adequate support for the project, a flyer was produced by Village Staff and distributed at the Friends of the Beaver Valley Library Garden Tour Tea in June, 2005.
An initial meeting of interested individuals was held January 16 and was attended by eight parties representing various sectors of the community. After a spirited discussion, the group agreed on a number of principles. We determined that we would set realistic and attainable goals.
We agreed that we would complement, not compete with the wonderful garden tour sponsored annually by Friends of the Beaver Valley Library as they had expressed that they did not wish to see the tour become a contest or competition. And we set our first priority as improving the tidiness and attractiveness of the downtown area.
This loosely structured committee continued to meet monthly and gradually developed project focus and leadership. Strongly supported by the Mayor, Council and Village Staff, the committee gradually gained momentum and support. Local governments, the Business Community and Local Charitable Organizations such as Beaver Valley Lions, Beaver Valley Rotary, and Fruitvale Community Chest came forward with tremendous support, both financial and in kind. Numerous individuals have participated either by weeding and gardening, or by lending support to raise funds, decorate the parade float, donate plants, and much more!
Always an active volunteer community, we have really developed Communities in Bloom spirit! Almost everyone has risen to the challenge to “step it up a notch”, taking pride in the increased tidiness and attractiveness that has resulted.
| | | | 2011 Communities in Bloom - the results are in... | | | In 2011, Fruitvale took part in the Provincial category of the Communities in Bloom competition. We are happy to announce the hard work taken on by the Beaver Valley Blooming Society members and the Village of Fruitvale paid off with a 5 Blooms win from the judges!! Special mention went to the newly installed Sports Court.
Thank you to everyone involved in making our community BLOOM!!
To read more about Communities in Bloom visit their website at Communities In Bloom
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Clinic Garden & Volunteers
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CiB Collage 3
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CiB Collage 1
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Hummer Days 2
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Hummer Days 1
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BV Library Garden Tour
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Memorial Bench
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Beaver Creek
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Garden Wishes
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Inukshuk Garden
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Esso Garden
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Sera's Garden
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Pond Paradise
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Patio Paradise
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Clematis
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Garden a Plenty
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Angelic Gardens
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Second Place Commerical Container Competition winner
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First Place Commercial Container Competition Winner
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First Place Youth Container Competition Winner
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Second Place residential container contest winner
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First Place Residential Container Contest winner
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Village of Fruitvale - Main Office
Box 370
1947 Beaver Street
Fruitvale, BC, V0G 1L0
Ph (250) 367-7551 Fax (250) 367-9267
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