Will Amick, President of the Lexington Technology Center FFA Chapter, presents a poinsettia to First Lady Jenny Sanford at the Governor’s Mansion as other students, Tommy Harmon and Bryce Myers look on.
LEXINGTON FFA MEMBERS CONTRIBUTE POINSETTIAS
TO DECORATE GOVERNOR’S MANSION
COLUMBIA, SC…. Lexington Technology Center Horticulture students continued their five-year tradition of providing poinsettias to decorate the Governor’s Mansion for the Christmas Season when they delivered the beautiful plants on Monday, November 26.
The students and their Horticulture Science Instructor Tommy Harmon along with Bryce Myers, Assistant Director of the Technology Center, presented the plants to South Carolina’s First Lady Jenny Sanford at the Mansion in preparation for decoration of the historic landmark by Columbia Garden Club members. Following the presentation they were given a tour of the Mansion by Nancy Bunch, an official at the Governor’s Mansion and an accomplished historian.
The poinsettias were grown by the students in the technology center’s new state-of-the-art greenhouse as part of their hands-on training in Horticulture and Greenhouse Operation.
The students who participated in the “Presentation of Poinsettias” ceremony are active members of the National FFA Organization which now has more than 500,000 members representing every state, Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands.
“The green industry is among the fastest growing aspects of agriculture in South Carolina and the Lexington Technology Center has one of the outstanding Horticulture programs in the nation,” according to John W. Parris, a spokesman for the SC FFA Association.
The Governor’s Mansion will be open for tours by appointment throughout the Holidays.
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| Will Amick, President of the Lexington FFA Chapter, First Lady Jenny Sanford and Suzette Sharpe, Secretary of the chapter, being interviewed by a reporter from one of the TV stations who attended the presentation at the Governor’s Mansion. |
Tommy Harmon (left) discusses the production of poinsettias with First Lady Jenny Sanford and other in the Governor’s Mansion. |