The Worcester Garden Club, Inc., a member Garden Club of America and National Garden Clubs, Inc. and organized in 1919, voted to award $500 to the Friends of Newton Hill at Elm Park c/o Park Spirit of Worcester, Inc., to fund perennials and annuals to beautify the Newton Square Rotary flower beds as well as the Newton Square WWII Memorial border flower beds.

The funding is made possible through the Worcester Garden Club’s grant support for civics projects and through work donated by volunteers of the Friends of Newton Hill at Elm Park and Park Spirit of Worcester, Inc.

The Friends of Newton Hill have worked with Rotary Stewards Paula Bushey and Denise Billotta over the past years to beautify the rotary by planting and watering flowers.

The purposes of the Worcester Garden Club are: to promote the knowledge and appreciation of gardening, horticulture, flower arranging, and all phases of conservation; to educate the community in the art of gardening, in the science of horticulture and in the conservation of all our national and local resources; and to encourage and develop civic planting throughout Worcester County.