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Among those at the October meeting of the New Orleans Garden Society are, from left, Brenda Higgins, a member of the society's board; Lee Pitre Lynch, chair of the society's 100th year birthday civic award project; and society president Alice Reese.

To mark the 100-year anniversary of the New Orleans Garden Society, which was founded in 1919, the society is donating a fountain for the New Orleans City Park Botanical Garden. Paul Soniat, director of the botanical garden, gave a progress report on the fountain during the society's Oct. 9 meeting in the playhouse of Longue Vue.

The society's big centennial celebration will be Nov. 3 at the botanical garden.