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Community Focus
Winston-Salem Greensboro ?High Point
siction C / 1974- Celebrating 25 Years - 1999 JutY 8' 1999 :
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How does your
garden grow?
Summer Tent Event
The "Fields of Har
vest" Rally presents Salem
Garden Apartments Sum
mer Tent Event, July 8-10.
The program will start at 6
p.m. each night at Salem
Garden Apartments, 7
Salem Garden Road in
Winston-Salem. The guest
speaker will be the Bishop
Lawrence Tate of New
Faith Chapel. For more
information call Joseph
Trinidad at 887-4105.
Free Tennis Lessons
The Kimberly Park
Tennis Club will sponsor
free lessons for youths
ages 5-14 July 8-August
28. The clinics will run
every Thursday from 6
p.m.-7 p.m. and on Satur
days from 10 a.m.-ll a.m.
All lessons will be held at
Carver High School. Par
ticipants peed to bring
their own tehnis rackets.
For more information call
Arnice Wall at 765-8002.
Black Leadership
Roundtable of
Winston-Salem
Anniversary Celebration
The Black Leadership,
Roundtable of Winston
Salem will celebrate its
second anniversary in con
junction with a reception
for Republic of Liberia
Ambassador Rachael
Gbenyon-Diggs Friday
from 7-10 p.m. at the.
Urban League. The Ote
sha Dance Ensemble will
provide the entertainment.
Admission is free and all
attendees are asked to
dress in business or ethnic
attire. If you are planning
to attend RSVP by July 7
to 767-6355 or 784-9373.
Author E. Lynn Harris'
Book Discussed
The Carver School
Road Branch Library will
hold a discussion of E.
Lynn Harris' fifth book,
"Abide With Me," on July
13 at 7 p.m. Dr. Elwanda
Ingram, an English profes
sor at Winston-Salem
State University, will lead
the discussion.
Job Fair
The Greensboro
Employment Security
Commission will hold a
job fair featuring 50-100
employers July 14. The
event from 9 a.m.-noon at
the offices of the commis
sion, 2005-B South Elm
Eugene Street. For more
information call 334-5777.
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'Amateur'
horticulturists
use greenery to
brighten yards
By FELECIAP. McMILLAN
COMMUNITY CORRESPONDENT . ,
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For Elwood Ford's neighbors, his love of
gardening isn't a science.
It's an art.
"His lawn always looks like a bed of carpet,
and the creative shapes he uses for the shrub
bery really turned my head," said his neighbor
Louise Smith.
Ford, S9, is one of a host of local residents
who have discovered the beauty - and pleasure
- of gardening.
From the sculpted shrubbery of Ford and
Smith to the vegetables that grow in perfectly
straight lines in James and Flora Trollinger's
Verdun Street garden to the cactus garden of
William and Emma Shouse of Jeketer Drive,
eye-catching yards come in all sizes.
And they don't have to feature flowers.
Ford, 59, has always loved to work in his
yard, but after retiring, he discovered a hobby
that would benefit many in his neighborhood.
When Louise Smith saw the tender loving care
that Ford put into his lawn, she asked him to
maintain her yard as well. He now maintains
the yards of four of his neighbors.
"I don't tell him what to do in my yard. I just
let him be as creative as he wants to," she said.
Ford cut Smith's shrubbery into an oval
design. He cut his own boxwood shrubs into
designs he calls "the bell curve" and "the low
bucket." Although he was never formally
trained in horticulture, he has become a master
of landscape design, Smith says.
"When we have our 'Meet the Candidates'
session for the various aldermen, we always use
his yard as our stage because it is so attractive,"
Smith said. "All of the candidates and those
. - who come to the session stand in awe at the
work he has done."
Ford is modest about his artistry.
"I just picked it up by looking around at
other lawns and blending a variety of ideas.
When I travel, I am always watching yards,"
Ford said. "What I find attractive about a yard ?
are the colors and the shapes they use."
His goal is ta provide variety and continuity
in his landscape designs. His wife, Barbara,
trusts Ford's ideas about the lawn.
"I don't have anything to do with the flow
ers or the lawn, and I like it like that," she said.
"This is his domain, and I love being in the
house. He just loves it, and I love him for it. I
get upset sometimes because he'll stay outside
as long as he can see. This means that I have to
hold dinner out late so we can eat together, but
I love the work."
"I am usually out until about 10 p.m.
because it doesn't get dark until after then," he
said. "I'm usually trimming up, getting grass
out of the flowers, putting plastic down to stop
See Garden on page CI
Photos by Felecia P. McMillan
Top, James Trollinger, 81, show* off tho blooms on his squash plants. Ho expects to harvest more than a bushel of
squash this year. Above, Trollinger displays part of his huge crop of spring onions.
Emma and William
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