I bet you’re wondering what to do with yourself on Saturday, May 22d.  As luck would have it, there’s a community event just waiting for your participation:  Midland Blooms!

Yes, soon it will be time to dig out the trowels and put on your gardening gloves and join us for the annual planting of the petunias along Eastman Road.  Several SPACE team members belong to civic groups and service clubs already assigned a block or two along the 2.5 miles of the route to be planted.   Rotary Club, Leadership Midland, and the Zonta Club of Midland are just three of the many organizations who return year after year to beautify Midland.  SPACE team members may either join with a member of one of these clubs or band together and develop a stand-alone SPACE team and register for a block. 

Each year Eastman Road is reduced to two lanes to allow hundreds of volunteers to plant petunias.  Starting at 7:30, block captains begin laying out flats of flowers for their block.  The captains are responsible for rounding up volunteers, providing trash bags, rakes, and brooms for cleanup, and assuring that the flowers are planted to guarantee beautiful blooms throughout the summer.  Volunteers show up at 8 and the entire 2.5 miles of both sides of Eastman Road are filled with color within 2 hours. 

So, stop wondering how you’re going to fill that Saturday morning and get digging!