with somewhat heavier pockets this month after the Garden Club of Bermuda announced its 1995/96 Educational Awards.

Recipients of the club's Freer Cox Memorial Fund prizes include Ms Heather Marjorie Baylay (who is entering the second year of an environmental studies programme at Toronto's York University), Mr. David W. Cox (in the final year of an honours landscape architecture programme at Guelph University in Canada), Mr. Stuart Jackson Hayward (in the second year of an environmental studies programme at the Antioch New England Graduate School in Keene, New Hampshire) and Ms Claire Louise Jessy (in her final year of an environmental biology programme at the International Institute of Biological Control in Britain).

Rounding out the list of Freer Cox beneficiaries are Mr. Andrew Pettit (who is working towards a master's degree in landscape architecture at Leeds Metropolitan University in England), Ms Rosalind Sara Wingate (who will be entering the first year of an environmental biology programme at University College of Swansea in Wales) and Ms Dawn Oriel Santucci (who has enrolled in a golf course operations and management course at Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College in Tifton, Georgia).

The winner, meanwhile, of the Garden Club's Dorothy and Bayfield Clark Memorial Fund prize was Ms Shirmika Ann Pitt, who has enrolled in a one-year professional floristry course.

Aiming for a British national certificate in the subject, Ms Pitt will be completing her studies at Brinsbury College of the West Sussex College of Agriculture and Horticulture in England.

*** In other awards news, the HM Customs Social Committee held a Long Service Awards ceremony recently for staff members who have provided some 30 or more years of service to the HM Department of Customs.

The honourees at the event included Mr. Charles Winston Rawlins (who has worked for HM Customs for 30 years), Mr. Nile Smith (another 30-year employee), Ms Daisy Simmons (a 32-year employee) and Mr. Calvin Smith (a 31-year employee).

*** Next month, meanwhile, Bermuda's Lions and Lioness Clubs plan to celebrate Lions World Service Day by holding a Sunday lunch for the Island's senior citizens at the Pembroke Community Centre.

Club members, who are being urged to sponsor a senior at a cost of $10 each, will also provide transport to the community centre and assist in the serving of food.

This year, Lions World Service Day has been scheduled for October 1.

Smith (30 years), Ms Daisy Simmons (32 years) and Mr. Calvin Smith (31 years).