Terry Fisher, left, with Sherie Bleiler. PROVIDED

At the end of the year, the Garden Club of Cape Coral takes time to celebrate one of its members. The Garden Club of Cape Coral has awarded the 12th Club Service Award on Dec. 11 to recognize an outstanding member who has gone above and beyond the responsibilities of regular club membership.

This year, the honor goes to Terry Fisher.

Fisher has been the second vice president in charge of membership since 2021, since she agreed to serve two terms. As membership chair, she collected member information and created a spreadsheet showing what each member has been involved in. She updated the membership brochure and incorporated our membership application form into the brochure.

Here are her many accomplishments include:

• Instrumental in organizing the acquisition of the heron statue as a memorial for Jean Shields which stands in the garden at the Historical Museum.

• Volunteered in the Rose Garden and was especially appreciated after Hurricane Irma for helping to put the Rose Garden back together.

• Raised hundreds of plants to sell at March in the Park. She came up with the idea to add dish gardens to the items we sell there.

• Events chair this year planning the club’s monthly trips. She is great at creating quizzes members use to have fun while on bus trips and other events.

• Taught a class at her home about growing desert roses and did a presentation to the Friends of the Library last month on how to mount a staghorn fern.

These are just a few of the ways Fisher has contributed to the Garden Club of Cape Coral. You will find her everywhere! Bottom line….she is a person who never says NO.