CHEER sets bus trip to Philadelphia Flower Show March 13

The CHEER Travel Club will sponsor a bus trip to the Philadelphia Flower Show Monday, March 13. The flower show has been a top horticultural destination event since 1829. It attracts thousands of visitors annually to the Pennsylvania Convention Center. This year's theme is Holland: Flowering the World. It will showcase the extraordinary plants, creativity and talent of this region's top horticulturists and designers along with award-winning landscape and floral designers from the Netherlands. Towering windmills, wooden shoes, delectable cheeses, whimsical bicycles, canals and vibrant tulip fields of the iconic Dutch landscape will be showcased.

The bus will depart at 8 a.m. from the Warren L. and Charles C. Allen Jr. CHEER Community Center at the corner of Route 9 and Sand Hill Road, east of Georgetown. It will return at approximately 6 p.m. Cost is $55 per person. Participants will have lunch will be on their own. The public is invited to enjoy this venture.

To make a reservation, call Robin Greene at 302-515-3063. All proceeds benefit the services of CHEER Inc., a nonprofit whose mission is to provide healthy and active lifestyles for seniors in Sussex County.