Claudette Thomas, current parliamentarian of Grenada Garden Club, was recently surprised with a unique award given by the Garden Clubs of Mississippi. She was presented the title “Queen of Trees” at the state annual garden club meeting.
This award is presented annually to a garden club member who has focused on urban forestry and tree planting and who has had outstanding and significant contribution to tree programs in the community. Claudette is currently chairman of Grenada Garden Club’s Arbor Day Committee, and with her committee and other community volunteers, has spent a significant number of years developing programs to encourage the identification and planting of native trees in several local areas. One of these accomplishments was to identify and mark, with assistance from the Corps of Engineers, a more than 100-year-old bald cypress tree at the Old River Run Arboretum at Grenada Lake. The Societe Des Arbres of the Garden Clubs of Mississippi, Inc., presented a Certificate of Recognition to Grenada Garden Club in recognition of a “tree or group of trees declared to be a living natural asset of the State of Mississippi.”
(The Grenada Garden Club is a member of the Garden Clubs of Mississippi, Inc., Deep South Garden Clubs, Inc., and National Garden Clubs, Inc.)
