Garden Club blooms at annual meeting

Scholarship recipients Joseph McWilliams, Orion Morton, Robert Benedict, Edgar Bischoff III and Juliana Carrillo

Michael Renick, Garden Club President Susan Phillips and Eric Teoh, with a $9,000 check to the Garden Club from Team Renick.

Event organizers Janice Cook and Beverly Shapiro

Jorge Acevedo and David Bocanegra, of grant recipient Friends of DeSoto National Memorial

April Glasco, CEO and founder of book donation recipient Second Chance Last Opportunity, Andi Watson, of grant recipient Manatee County Girls’ Club, and Joyce Noel, of Second Chance Last Opportunity

Grand recipients David Pilston, of Save Our Seabirds, and Larry Stults, of Sarasota Bay Watch

Beautification award recipient Barbara Gurchiek and Jo Ann Schwencke

Patty Sileo and Lyn Haycock

Irina LaRose and Claudia Hennigan

Pat Loy and Barbara Jendrysik

Linda Ulrich and Carol Peschel

Carol Peschel, Jinny Johnson and Barb Kerwin

Jane Boehme and Jackie Salvino