THE WOODLANDS, TX – (Monday, October 5, 2009) - The merchants of Cochran’s Crossing Shopping Center, the Community Associations of The Woodlands and The Woodlands Development Company (TWDC) have stepped up as presenting sponsors for The Woodlands Wildflower Festival, an annual tradition set for Saturday, October 24, 2009 from 10 am until 2 pm at the Cochran’s Crossing Shopping Center, according to Susan Vreeland-Wendt, Director of Marketing for TWDC. The Brickman Group, Ltd., a professional landscape service company with a branch office in The Woodlands, is the participating sponsor.
Residents will be able to collect a wide variety of free wildflower seeds, distributed by local businesses in The Woodlands, while enjoying displays of native plants, environmental exhibits and booths with nature-related gift items for sale. Children will enjoy a free petting zoo, pony rides, moon walk, face painting and balloon artists. Lovable mascot of The Woodlands, Puffy Pine Cone, will pose for free photographs with children from 11 am until 12 noon.
The official Wildflower Festival poster and tee-shirt, selected from the annual Wildflower Festival contest, will be on sale at the booth of The Woodlands Lions Club. Proceeds from the event benefit Lions Club charities. The Lions Club provides services for the blind and visually impaired, and assists youth and senior citizen programs.
The wildflower seed sponsors and the seeds they will distribute are:
- Amegy Bank and Amegy Mortgage – Zinnia
- The Brickman Group, Ltd. – Sunflower
- Clear Choice Orthodontics, Dr. Ray McLendon – Poppy
- Cochran’s Crossing Merchants Association – Black-Eyed Susan
- The Community Associations of The Woodlands – Forget Me Not
- Joyce Hanson, Prudential Gary Greene, Realtors – Wildflower Mixture
- Hodges Collision Centers – Shasta Daisy
- Randalls – Old-Fashioned Mixture
- Mellisa Ray, Nationwide Insurance - Asters
- Larry Smith, Allstate Insurance and Dr. Bernard Maslovitz, Optometrist – Zinnia
- Kenny Speight, Community Insurance Associates and Two Men and a Truck – Tomato Plant
- Woodforest National Bank and Woodforest Mortgage – Marigold
- The Woodlands Convention & Visitors Bureau – Sunflower Mixture
- The Woodlands Development Company – Texas Bluebonnet
Cochran’s Crossing Shopping Center is located at 4747 Research Forest Drive at the southwest intersection of Research Forest Drive and Gosling Drive.
The Woodlands is a 28,000-acre master-planned community located 27 miles north of downtown Houston. It is a project of The Woodlands Development Company, a limited partnership of Morgan Stanley and General Growth Properties, Inc.
The merchants of Cochran’s Crossing Shopping Center, the Community Associations of The Woodlands and The Woodlands Development Company (TWDC) are the sponsors of The Woodlands Wildflower Festival set for Saturday, October 24, 2009 from 10 am until 2 pm at Cochran’s Crossing Shopping Center. The Brickman Group, Ltd. is the participating sponsor of the event. Proceeds benefit The Woodlands Lions Club. From left to right are: Hollie Gambino, Branch Manager for Brickman; Kenny Speight, Event Chairperson and Vice President of The Woodlands Lions Club; Cathy Bleakley, President of The Woodlands Lions Club; Jeff Long, President of The Woodlands Community Association, Inc.; Susan Vreeland-Wendt, Director of Marketing for TWDC; Joel Deretchin, President of The Woodlands Association, Inc. and The Woodlands Commercial Owners Association, Inc.; Melissa Smyth; Operations Manager for Brickman; Lorrie Parise, Marketing Manager for TWDC; and Michael Rennie, Store Manager for Kroger in Cochran’s Crossing and representative for the merchants. |
