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Garden Club (Article written by a Garden Club member)

The Mountain View Garden Club was founded in April of 1954 and joined the Fed-
erated Garden Clubs of Missouri and the National Garden Club, Inc. in 1958.
Club members are composed of townspeople and gardeners from the surrounding
communities. Our primary objectives are fun, friendships and learning. We meet on
the afternoon of the fourth Wednesday of the month at the MV Public Library for a
program and business meeting. Visitors are always welcome.
Our interests include not only gardening for our own benefit, but conservation and
environmental study, youth education and activities, garden therapy, sponsoring a
garden tour and maintaining bluebird trails. We take an out of town tour each year
and also do local field trips.
Our reoccurring club theme has been “Years of Community Service.” Part of our
group, known as the Wednesday Weeders, meets a couple of times a month to plant
and maintain the numerous flower
beds we have around town.
The Mountain View Garden Club has
enjoyed serving our community in the past
and hopes to continue with many more

years of fun, friendship. and learning.

Masons

Mountain View is home to Masonic Lodge #637 located at 604 West 4 Street in Mtn. View. They have about
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57 members and meet the 2 and 4 Tuesday of each month at 6:30 p.m. Masonic Lodge #637 is very
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committed to the children of Mountain View as well as nearby Birch Tree and Winona, Missouri. They hold
various fundraisers throughout the year, including a raffle every spring in order to raise the funds to provide
school children with backpacks, school supplies, shoes, etc. – working closely with the schools to fulfill whatev-
er the needs are. Other projects they have done in recent years include supplying a library and audio visual
equipment for the local Head Start program. They also donate to the Angel Tree, a project of the Mountain
View Chamber of Commerce that provides Christmas gifts for school aged children in Mountain View and
Birch Tree. Additionally, they host a Child Identification program every few years.
If you are interested in joining Mountain View Masonic Lodge #637, contact Al Church at 417 247 0157 or
email achurchjr@centurytel.net