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The Garden Club of Reading will present a program about international design standards on Tuesday with Jan Keeney of The Nosegay Florist, Bernville.

The program is at Wyomissing Library at 12:45 p.m.

Keeney will discuss flower design with nontraditional and exotic cuttings and colors.

She will concentrate on American and European design changes within formal judging environments.

For more information on the Garden Club of Reading, email gardenclubofreading@aol.com.

• Twenty-three contestants will compete for the titles of “Miss Berks County,” “Miss Greater Reading” and “Miss Greater Reading’s Outstanding Teen” at Alvernia University on Jan. 19.

Tickets for the Miss Berks County Scholarship Organization’s competition, available at the door, are $15 for adults and $10 for children 12 and under. The event will start at 7 p.m. in Francis Hall.

The Miss Berks County Scholarship Organization raises funds to award tuition assistance to qualified young women. The university will give $2,000 to any winner who elects to attend Alvernia.

• The Berks Encore Art Group exhibition opened recently at the Art Plus Gallery, 604 Penn Ave., West Reading.

All art is for sale and will be on display for about three months.

Senior artists are Leonard Cote, Brenda Groff, Marie Kasper, Cornelia Katzin, Jean Kline, Sharon Koert, Mary Koursaros, John Lebo and Dee Miller.

Art Plus Gallery is a nonprofit cooperative gallery, managed by juried members, that provides a venue for local artists to exhibit and sell their work.

For more information about the Berks Art Group, contact Emily Garb, Reading Berks Encore center manager, at 610-374-3195, ext. 225, or email EGarb@berksencore.org.

Please submit your Bulletin Board items of community interest by email to news@readingeagle.com or by fax to 610-371-5098.

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