CENTURY OF BEAUTY STATE FLOWER'S ANNIVERSARY MARKED.Byline: Marci Wormser Staff Writer CALIFORNIA POPPY California poppy: see poppy. California poppy Annual garden plant (Eschscholzia californica) in the poppy family, native to the western coast of North America and naturalized in parts of southern Europe, Asia, and Australia. RESERVE - About 200 Antelope Valley This article is about the Los Angeles County region. For the census-designated place in Wyoming, see Antelope Valley-Crestview, Wyoming. The Antelope Valley residents gathered at the California Poppy Reserve on Sunday morning Sunday Morning may refer to:
Assemblywoman Sharon Runner Sharon Runner (born May 17 1954, Los Angeles) is a Californian politician. She has been a member of the California State Assembly since 2002. Runner, a Republican from Antelope Valley represents the 36th district. said she had declared April 2 the official 100th anniversary of the California poppy as the state flower. She had submitted a resolution to legislators, Runner said. Students from Westside Union School District read their winning essays about the special flower. ``The great poppy lady (Jane Pinheiro) started painting poppies in the 1940s,'' Runner told the crowd. ``She had the vision in the 1950s - before I was born - to save the poppies from urban development.'' It took almost 30 more years before acreage set aside for the poppies accumulated to a total of 1,755 and the preserve was dedicated in 1976, she said. Lancaster resident Dorothy Bolt, former chairwoman of the Wildflower wildflower Any flowering plant that grows without intentional human aid. Wildflowers are the source of all cultivated garden varieties of flowers. A wildflower growing where it is unwanted is considered a weed. Conservation Committee, explained how the Antelope Valley California Poppy State Reserve was created. In 1970, a study by the state Department of Parks and Recreation showed that the reserve is in an area known for the greatest abundance of California poppies, Bolt said. The committee was formed to raise funds to acquire the land. The reserve was created with the help of the California State Park Foundation and dedicated in April 1976. The reserve, one of the Antelope Valley's biggest tourist attractions, draws tens of thousands of visitors from all over the nation each spring. Sixth-grade contestants who read their essays were first-place winner Liana liana (lēä`nə) or liane (lēän`), name for any climbing plant that roots in the ground. Meeker of Del Sur School, second-place winner Nicole Tracy of Hillview Middle School Hillview Middle School is a public middle school in Menlo Park, California, part of the Menlo Park City School District. It is notable as having been named a California Distinguished School seven times. , and third-place winner Katie Spirito of Hillview Middle School. Eighth-grade contest winners included Joseph Burleson of Joe Walker Middle School, first place; Stefanie Sveiven of Joe Walker Middle School, second place; and Lauren Ellefson of Hillview Middle School, third place. CAPTION(S): 4 photos Photo: (1 -- color in Verb 1. color in - add color to; "The child colored the drawings"; "Fall colored the trees"; "colorize black and white film" color, colorise, colorize, colour in, colourise, colourize, colour AV edition; ran in SAC and AV edition only) Jennifer Gonzalez and her daughter Nina, 2, of Malibu stroll through the California Poppy Reserve in Lancaster. (2 -- color in AV edition; ran in SAC and AV edition only) Assemblywoman Sharon Runner, R-Lancaster, talks Sunday about the California poppy's history as the state flower. (3 -- ran in SAC and AV edition only) On a Sunday visit to the state poppy reserve in Lancaster, Lorri Darby of Lake Elizabeth shows off her tattoo of California poppy blooms and a butterfly. (4 -- ran in SAC and Valley editions only) On her Sunday visit to the poppy reserve in Lancaster, Lorri Darby of Lake Elizabeth shows off her tattoo of California Poppy blooms and a butterfly. Tom Mendoza/Staff Photographer |
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