Home and Garden show draws popular support

(l-r) Carolina Ferreira and Marla Barnes of the Cayman Islands Red Cross show the things that people should stock up on in preparation for the hurricane season	Jennifer Newton of Feng Shui Environmental Design

(l-r) Members of the Cayman 27 crew, Claire
McFetridge, Laurie Gransch and Corina Ghizzo

(l-r) Katherine Elphinestone and Betty Lou
Hendrickson of the Cayman Garden Club

Thursday, June 10, 2004

More than a 1,000 people visited The Cayman 27 Island Living Home and Garden Show at the Family Life Centre in George Town, on Saturday, 5 June, to view 42 different stalls, featuring the full spectrum of articles for the home and garden.

Claire McFetridge, from exhibition organisers Cayman 27 said: “It’s an opportunity to get all the top home and garden vendors on the island together, so if you’re wanting to redecorate your home or do your garden, you can come here, and get everything at one location.”

The Garden Club of Cayman had a stall, displaying some of the flowers of its 43rd annual flower show.

Apart from swapping useful gardening tips, the Garden Club also helps to preserve indigenous plant species by encouraging the cultivation of them in local gardens.

Jennifer Newton of Feng Shui Environmental Designs explained some of the principles of the ancient Chinese art of Feng Shui.

“The general principles are working with the five elements of nature, which are, water, wood, fire, earth and metal,” she said.

Cornelia Oliver, from the Government Information service was giving out pamphlets describing preparations for the hurricane season.

“I just want to remind everybody to pick up their hurricane kit and hurricane handbook and their updated shelter list,” she said. “It’s very important to be educated before the hurricane season begins.”

Continuing with the theme of hurricane preparation, The Cayman Islands Red Cross was represented by a stall which showed all the kinds of things you need to stock up on, or take with you into a hurricane shelter, including canned food, a flashlight, and a first-aid kit.

The Red Cross were also publicising its new appeal. “We’re doing a fund raiser called A Dollar for the Dominican Republic and Haiti Campaign, because the floods there killed more than 2,000 people, and have left thousands homeless,” said Red Cross Programmes Manager, Carolina Ferreira.

“If everybody in the Cayman Islands donated just one dollar each, we would have more than $40,000 for the cause,” she added.

Sounds and Things’ display reflected its wide range of products: “We’ve got a whole bedroom set, bureau, mirror, chest-of-drawers, two night-stands and the queen-size bed,” said sales representative, Angela Cross-Allen.

“We’re here to show customers what we carry from time to time, because a lot of customers are not familiar with Sounds and Things carrying furniture, and other household items,” she said.

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