The community of Oliver won another 4 Blooms at the BC Communities in Bloom awards night Saturday with Special Mention for our water management.
Rural Area C/Town also won the delegates choice for best ‘Gateway’ for our entrance sign above.
In addition we also won the Provincial Criteria award for “Floral Display”. This is one of the eight criteria that communities are judged on.
While the Oliver Communities in Bloom Committee had hoped to come away with a 5 Bloom award for this past year’s accomplishments, we acknowledge that it was very unusual for a 1st year entry to win the 4 blooms that we did in 2010. We are very pleased that we were able to improve our overall score from the low end of the 4 Bloom to the high end.
The Committee will be reviewing the evaluation and put forward a summary and recommendations in the near future.
Thanks to Beth Garrish and Betty Lou Trimmer-Bahnsen for attending the ceremonies on Vancouver Island and for sending this on to ODN.