Eunice Bulb and Blossom Club provides wreath for Blue Star Marker
Christy Chatagnier, chaplain of Post 8971, Donna Baltakis vice president Bulb and Blossom Garden Club of Eunice, James Sonnier, of Post 8971, and Paul Ganucheau, honor guard captain of Post 8971. (Photo by David Simpson)
The Blue Star Program honors all men and women that serve in the United States Armed Services.
The program began with the planting of 8,000 dogwood trees by the New Jersey Council of Garden Clubs in 1944 as a living memorial to veterans of World War II.
In 1945, the National Council of State Garden Clubs (now NGC, Inc.) adopted this program and began a Blue Star Highway system that covers thou…
