Around Town
SGC Funds Grants to Three Environmentally Conscious Groups
The SGC raised funds as a result of its 2024 Garden Tour and has made those funds available through a request for proposals. Each submission was required to have a SGC member(s) as a sponsor of their proposal. We are excited to announce three winners:
1) Westport High School Garden Club was awarded $500 to purchase native plants for its pollinator garden. This garden is to be established on WHS’s new campus and students will observe, learn, and share from their planting efforts.
2) The Sakonnet Preservation Association was awarded $5,000 to run a 4-Part “All About Seeds” workshop series. Funds will also help to launch SPA’s Trueblood property on Willow Avenue which will be used as a stone wall restoration exemplar using native replanting. A long range goal is to establish a community model demonstration site for wall restoration, seed propagation, and replanting with natives.
3) The Stone Wall Stewards of Little Compton was awarded $7,705 to further its preservation, documentation, and celebration of LC’s stone walls. The Stewards are using funds to build a stone wall photographic inventory using an app, purchase cameras to document wildlife around these walls, and educate residents about protecting all of our historic stone walls. For more information about this project, please click on LC Stone Wall Stewards tab above.
Christmas/Holidays 2025: Sogkonate Garden Club Member’s Very Community-Centered Holiday !
Swag Making for All of Little Compton Lamp Posts, Etc.
Wilbur School Children guided by SGC Members to make “take home” Holiday greens arrangements
SGC Participates in a super fun and successful Little Compton “Tree Spree” (Fundraiser for Student Scholarships
Our “Spectacular” Tree Spree Entry (Thank you A.S. !)
Little Compton Celebrates its’ 350th Birthday! Sogkonate Garden Club participates with a terrific float
Sogkonate Garden Club wins awards at Newport Flower Show
At the Newport Flower Show at Rosecliff Mansion on June 20-22nd, Ashley Sparks won two awards in the Horticulture Division for the Sogkonate Garden Club for her “Newport Cottage” Fairy Garden. She was assisted by her mother, Sandi Sparks. She earned the Mrs. Robert M. Grace Best in Show Award and the National Garden Club Award. Congratulations to Ashley!
Sogkonate Garden Club Collects Record 227 Pounds of Trash from Local Shorelines
Each month, the Sogkonate Garden Club’s Conservation Committee collects litter on Little Compton roads. Additionally, the committee hosts a Coastal Clean-Up Day each September. This year, 16 SGC members participated and collected a record 227 pounds of trash. SGC members scoured the following beaches: Adamsville Landing, Briggs, Little Pond Cove, Lloyds, Sakonnet Point, Sherer Cove, South Shore, Tappans, Taylor's Lane, Town Landing and Warren's Point in Little Compton and Richmond Point and the Knubble in Westport.
Wilbur School Eighth Graders Create Floral Arrangements for Their Dinner Dance
SGC members (Mary Mackintosh, Carolyn Montgomery, Carole Siino, Eileen Mosher and Amanda Toste) worked with recent 8th Grade graduates to create floral arrangements for their 8th Grade Dinner Dance held June 10th at the Wilbur School. Members donated flowers, vases and assistance. Carolyn M. gave a wonderful demonstration to the students to get them started
Twenty-two students made 14 arrangements. See for yourselves how lovely they came out! Congratulations Graduates!
FALL CLEANUP
Our State House Rep, Michelle McGaw, joined many SGC members Saturday, November 11, for the annual Fall CleanUp. The Burchard Triangle and the Brownell House property were readied for winter. Many hands made quick work!
Rep McGaw performed a great service to us by shepherding our recent grant proposal through the House. Thanks to her efforts we were awarded funds to cover the cost of mandatory public liability insurance for the “Triangle”, a RIDOT Adopt-A-Spot location.
Thanks, Michelle, for lending a hand - in both ways!” Thanks all for your cheerful work on these two LC locations.
Beautiful Town Landing “Oval” Gets the Special Treatment
A group of SGC and community volunteers came together on Saturday morning, September 9, to care for the naturalized oval (aka the center of the traffic roundabout). The morning was an annual opportunity to observe, weed and supplement the native plantings in the oval. With Sue Theriault’s guidance, helpers learned about the native grasses growing there as well as the weeds to pull! Native grasses, milkweed and golden rod and primrose plants were distributed throughout the oval. Now to water, watch and wait :-)
