North Eighth Street home is Cheney's September Yard of the Month
Bart Olmsted and Mary Ann Powers pose with Cheney Garden Club representative Karen Smith (second from right) and Cheney Kiwanis member Pat Isbell (right).
Cheney's Mary Ann Powers first began growing dahlias over 20 years ago. She has met with so much success that not only did her friends and neighbors enjoy the color adorning the outside of her home along North Eighth Street, but they encouraged her to show those flowers off to others.
"Everybody kept nagging me, 'Do you show at the Fair, do you show at the Fair?' so I joined the society," Powers said.
The fair of course is the recently completed Spokane Interstate Fair, where although officials results are not complete yet, Powers said she brought home 28 different kinds of ribbons, nine the o...
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