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Beeton Horticultural Society celebrates Platinum Jubilee

June 2, 2022   ·   0 Comments

The upcoming Platinum Jubilee celebrating Queen Elizabeth’s 70 years as Queen and Head of the Commonwealth is an event you will never see again in your lifetime, and possibly never again in history.

The Queen ascended to the throne on February 6, 1952 after the death of her father, King George VI.

To celebrate this historic milestone, celebrations are planned around Canada and the Commonwealth.

The Beeton Horticultural Society is planning to create a permanent display that will mark the occasion and beautify the town at the same time.

The Society applied for, and received, a Queen’s Jubilee grant for $2,500 from the Federal Ministry of Heritage, Sports, Tourism and Culture Industries. The Ministry is providing grants to organizations to create gardens and other similar structures to mark the historic event.

“All Commonwealth countries are participating in this,” explained Beeton Horticultural Society president Liza Williams. “Some of our members thought this could be a good opportunity to honour the Queen.”

The Horticultural Society currently has 78 members, and meets at the Rotary Hall at the fairgrounds in Beeton every month. They maintain a garden at the park, in front of the Beeton library, as well as at the welcome signs entering the town.

“Currently there are two old planter boxes on Main at Centre Street in Beeton,” Ms. Williams said. “In collaboration with the Beeton Tottenham Business Improvement Association, we are going to replace those two planters with two new planters. We’ll have a plaque representing the Queen’s Jubilee, the Ministry of Heritage, and we’ll recognize the BTBIA and the Horticultural Society. Our goal is to have a grand opening the week before Canada Day.”

The planters have to be removed and the ground prepared for the new ones to be put in place.

The Town is helping get the prep work completed.

Lifelong Horticultural Society member Hazel Johanssen has been watering the plants in the planters for several years, and has been suggesting for quite some time that the planters need to be replaced. She put the idea out there several times at Society meetings.

The design work for the new planters and plaque is being done by Natascha Knipping of Iron Oak Designed in Beeton.

The new planters and plaque will mark an important event in our history and that the of Commonwealth.

By Brian Lockhart

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