by Charlene Hoeflich choeflich@mydailysentinel.com Pomeroy Daily Sentinel

POMEROY Plans for Christmas events, ranging from downtown decorating to the parade highlighted by the arrival of Santa, were discussed at this weeks meeting of the Pomeroy Merchants Association.

Holding to tradition, the parade will be held on the Sunday after Thanksgiving at 2 p.m. Toney Dingess is again this year in charge of the parade which will begin near the ball field beginning at 1 p.m. and move out at 2 p.m. for downtown Pomeroy. As in previous years, everyone and every organization is invited to participate, even pets hopefully costumed for the occasion.The highlight of course is the arrival of Santa. For more information Dingess can be contacted at 591-2260. While he would like to be advised of entries, that is not required.

Just show up and take part, Dingess said.

Immediately following the parade, Santa will move to Peoples Bank where photographs of the children sitting on Santas knee will be taken at no charge. There will also be a treat for the children.

Meantime, the members of the Merchants Association are busy getting the village decorated for the holiday season. Decorations of the two gazebos on the parking lot are being decorated by the Sacred Heart Church and the New Beginnings United Methodist Church. The stage area scene of Trinity Church will be put in place by employees of Farmers Bank. Trinity Church has been asked to provide music for the downtown area through the church system. Stores will be open for holiday shoppers.

Again this year, Brian Howard of the Merchants Association and Farmers Bank will be conducting another kids Christmas shopping tour beginning on Dec. 1 at 10 a.m. Children are to gather on the downtown banks parking lot and move from there for visits to the stores who are being requested to have tables of gifts costing $10 and under. Santas helpers will be available to help the children select and even wrap gifts for their special someone. While the children are on their shopping trip, parents are encouraged to visit the downtown businesses to shop or just to check out what is available and get ideas for Christmas giving.

Meanwhile, everything is ready for the candy, cookies and crafts contests, a program of the Merchants Association sponsored by the three banks Farmers, Ohio Valley and Peoples, on the first three Saturday mornings of December. The candy contest will be held at Peoples Bank on Dec. 1, the cookie contest at the Ohio Valley Bank in Save-a-Lot on Dec. 8 and the crafts at Farmers Bank in its new facility on East Main, on Dec. 15.

For the candy and cookie contests, participants are to take five pieces on a paper plate with their name, address and telephone number written on the back sometime before noon when the judging will take place. The winner of the tastiest in each category will win a $50 prize, with the second place winner to be given a lesser gift by the bank. As for the crafts and all kinds are accepted, they are to be taken to Farmers Bank anytime during the week of Dec. 10 for a display in the lobby. The judging will take on Saturday, Dec. 15.

Winners will be notified immediately after the noon judging has been completed. At each of the contests a picture of the winner will be taken displaying their entry with a member of the sponsoring bank for the newspaper.

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Designing your landscape can be one of the most rewarding projects you'll ever do. It's also one of the best garden-related things you can do during the long, cold days of winter.

Good gardens don't just happen; they're the result of careful planning. As anxious as you'll be to rush to the garden center, now's the time to pause and develop a real understanding of your property's features and how they can be used to create enjoyable outdoor spaces.

Consider doing these steps:

-- Base map. A sketch of your yard, showing property lines, the house's orientation, driveways and paths. Start at the front corner of the house. With a 100-foot tape, measure the distance out to the curb and across to the nearest property line, and draw onto graph paper. A scale of 1 inch equaling 10 feet works well, but pick whatever works for you and stay consistent through the drawing. The larger the grid paper, the easier it will be to write in all your plans and ideas. If you can find it, 18- by 24-inch grid paper is great.

Continue measuring from all corners of the house to the property's boundaries. Draw an arrow indicating north. Locate doors and windows; gas, electric and cable utilities; trees and shrubs; and any neighbors' features near the property line that might affect your design, such as large trees, fences or buildings.

-- Site analysis. Make a basic inventory of the property's strengths and weaknesses. A site analysis can be sketched in a single day, but it would be better to record how the area changes throughout the year. Note all significant features like sunny and shady spots, prevailing winds, drainage problems, existing vegetation, good and poor views and all utilities and easements. Make several photocopies of the base map with site analysis notes.

-- Preliminary designs. Now use the copies to come up with three or four preliminary designs. Let your imagination run wild with gazebos, vegetable gardens and flowerbeds. For each design draw a bubble diagram roughly indicating the shapes and locations of these features. Exact items and perfect graphics aren't necessary; just "bubble in" rough ideas.

Do pay attention to your site analysis, however. For example, a vegetable garden needs a flat, open area with lots of sun. Don't place it under a huge tree. Consider how the elements relate to each other and the house, too. For example, a compost pile should be close to the vegetable garden but out of view. Or a patio shouldn't get blasting, summer sun without some kind of cover. It's going to take several tries to fit the odd pieces smoothly into the jigsaw puzzle, but finally a practical plan will emerge.

Look over your preliminary designs and note the features you like from each. Put them all together on a new, more detailed base map while paying attention to that site analysis. It's critical that the garden's features all cooperate. Here is where you need accurate dimensions, too. Find the mature spread of that shade tree; measure exactly how long that front walk will be; count the number of shrubs needed for the hedge. You may find you have to make a hybrid of several different ideas to get everything to work together. Above all, consider the mature size of the plants and trees you want to add. Otherwise, you're setting yourself up for lots of work and expense later.

When you find your perfect design, draw it on a clean base map. As an option, you can color the different features for easier visual reference, then show it to other gardeners or even a professional landscape designer. A fresh set of eyes is an insurance policy that you haven't overlooked something that could really cost you later.

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