Daffodils to be sold for cancer society Thursday
Daffodils will be sold on the courthouse steps Thursday from 10 a.m. until 2 p.m. just as volunteers used to sell flowers on street corners and door to door to raise awareness and donations for the American Cancer Society.
Daffodil Days will officially end this year as an ACS activity, so this is one last chance to buy flowers for the cure.
“We’re encouraging people to buy the pots of mini daffodils and plant them in a special place when they’re done blooming,” ACS community involvement specialist Nancy Verderber said. “When they come up again in the spring they will remind us that hope is renewed and each year brings us closer to the cure.”
“We’ll have cut flowers and the potted plants,” said Karen Taylor, confidential secretary for the Greene County jury commissioners and Department of Human Resources.
She will be joined by Jury Commissioner Roslyn Lohr and, weather permitting, will venture down the steps to street level for the convenience of daffodil shopers.
Flowers will also be sold Thursday through Saturday, from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. at Giant Eagle and Walmart in Waynesburg. This year’s selection includes a bunch of ten flowers for $10, a pot of live mini daffodils, $12, flowers in a vase $15 and Bear and a Bunch for $25. Bears and flowers can be donated anonymously to children who are in the hospital for treatment, nursing home residents and other human service facilities. Daffodil lollipops, yellow and chocolate, as well as Honor Cards, are $1.
For more information, call 724-222-6911 or 1-800-227-2345.