The Daffodil Project

Posted by Dan Kammerer

on Aug 11, 2015

Gillian Slade of The Daffodil Project was the presenter and she educated the Sunrise Rotary members on a project that is working towards planting 1,000,000 King Alfred Daffodils by 2025.

These locally purchased daffodils are drought and pest resistant (they are toxic to most creatures) and are going to be planted along the Trans Canada Highway from Redcliff to Dunmore. All money donated goes directly to the purchasing of the daffodil bulbs and anyone can sign up to help plant them. A Project sheet and additional info has been uploaded to our site under Homepage Files

This project is potentially the 1^st of it’s kind, and was completely inspired by the 1965 film, Doctor Zhivago, specifically this scene: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bl_YDWWypxY

Gillian read the poem, “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud” by William Wordsworth for the closing remarks. For more information contact Gillian Slade:

Twitter: @medhatdaffodils Email: hatdaffodils@gmail.com

Website: www.medhatdaffodils.wordpress.com Phone: (403) 528 - 8635

Meeting Notes:

There were many happy dollars today! Glen has finally sold his house, and everyone was happy that they would finally have a chance at winning the 50/50 draws now that he has confirmed he is leaving.
At 5:00 - 7:00PM on Wednesday, September 16^th at Crave (the Medicine Hat College pub), all Rotarians are invited to an info session about ROTARACT and what is involved in getting a Club up and running at the College
Renee Herman was drawn but no Ace - -