Last year's garden tour featured a miniature golf course and a model train hauling flowers. There also will be refreshments and live jazz music from 3 to 5 p.m. West Avenue will be closed to traffic. Gardens open at 1 p.m. In preparation for the garden tour there is an alley cleanup and hot-dog party, then a yard sale the Saturday before where one of the people on the street who owns a farm sells plants and flowers. We have judging on the day of the garden tour and nonresidents judge the gardens.
People are amazed how creative people are.
The retired teacher and her husband, Ed, have lived on West Avenue 13 years. The people on this street are the best. Everybody takes care of everybody and watches out for everybody, their children and their property and they call the police if they see anything suspicious. The close-knit neighborhood is tucked between Lombardy and Harrison streets behind St. James's Episcopal Church and Beth Ahabah Congregation on Franklin Street.