It’s Fall y’all and time to bring the rich colors of the season into your home. The Heritage Junior Women’s Club can help you add a seasonal touch with mums and pansies from their annual fall plant sale.

You can purchase these lovely fall additions by contacting a HJWC member or stopping by the North Baldwin Chamber of Commerce to place your order. But you must place your order quickly as the deadline is Oct. 7.

This year the HJWC has mums in a variety of colors – purple, yellow, red, bronze and white – in a pot with fountain grass for $18 and a flat of mixed colored pansies for $15. Not only will you be brightening your home but the proceeds will benefit a worthy organization whose focus is improving the community and the lives of its residents.

The plant sale is just one of the fundraisers the club members dedicate themselves to each year. The proceeds from the plant sale benefit the Bay Minette Public Library’s Summer Reading Program, Catfish Roundup at Grimes Nursery and the Distinguished Young Women’s Program. According to club member Charebi Jones, the proceeds from their annual HJWC Christmas Party fundraiser benefits the club’s Leigh Ann Overstreet Leadership Scholarship.

In February the group holds a Chili Cook-off and Run which raises funds for the North Baldwin Coalition for Excellence in Education which then provides grants to teachers in the north Baldwin feeder pattern. Additionally, the funds raised are used to support student enrichment camps each summer that feature everything from cooking and sewing to arts and science.

They also sponsor Emily’s Closet, which collects prom dresses to give away to girls each year to make their high school dreams come true. Emily’s Closet was created by current HJWC president Melanie Sikes in memory of her sister Emily Rose Parker who was killed in a car accident in 2003.This year marked the first time Emily’s closet had a homecoming dress giveaway.

The group also donates clothing for the “clothes closet” at Bay Minette Elementary School, giving needy students jackets and uniforms throughout the school year. At their annual year end banquet, the club recognizes community volunteers and organizations with its prestigious Justice Lyn Stuart Community Service Award. This year the Old Town Bay Minette Arts Council was overjoyed to be the recipient of this recognition.

For more information about the plant sale, please call 937-5665 extension 2. The plants will be available on Oct. 18 as the group gathers for the plant pickup behind Wright’s Auto Parts located at 408 D’Olive Street. Come out and support a wonderful group and brightening your home for the fall season.

In other business, mark your calendars for the Old Town Bay Minette Arts Council’s Fall Market — Art, Antiques and Funky Junk — Oct. 11-13 from 7 a.m. until 1 p.m. each day. To commemorate the addition of antiques to the market and to capitalize on the Shrimp Festival traffic, this event will detour from the usual Blackburn Park locale and be held instead at the North Baldwin Chamber of Commerce.

Joanna Bailey is the director of the Bay Minette Public Library. She can be reached at baileyvolumes@gmail.com