Shangri La To Celebrate Mother's Day with Specials, Member Benefits,
May 6, 2009
For Immediate Release
Contact:
Michael Hoke, Managing Director
409.670.9113
Shangri La To Celebrate Mother’s Day with Specials, Member Benefits
ORANGE, Texas, May 6, 2009 – Celebrate Mother’s Day this Sunday, May 10, at Shangri La Botanical Gardens and Nature Center. Specials include a rose for all visiting mothers (while supplies last) as well as a lunch special at the Star and Crescent Moon Café.
The Café will offer all visitors an updated menu, which includes salads, soups and fresh baked cookies. Also available will be a new special of 1/2 sandwich, a cup of soup, a fresh-baked cookie and a drink for $10. Beer and wine are also available with the purchase of food.
Those seeking the perfect Mother’s Day gift should visit Shangri La to purchase a gift certificate for admission to the gardens and nature center. Annual memberships are also available for purchase and include free admission, special parking for shopping and dining, discounts at the Garden Store, notification of special programs, and entrance before and after hours, all valid for the entire year duration of the membership.
For members only on Mother’s Day, Shangri La will offer a discount on all items in the Garden Store along with early opening of the facility for its members to eat, shop and enjoy the gardens. Shangri La members will have the opportunity to enter the grounds earlier than the general public, as members will be granted admission to the gardens and the Café at 11 a.m., one hour earlier than Shangri La’s general operating hours on Sunday. Shangri La members will also enjoy a 25% discount at the Garden Store, available May 6-10 to individuals who show their membership cards at checkout.
Shangri La is located at 2111 West Park Avenue, Orange, Texas. The Shangri La Visitor Parking area, located across West Park Ave. from Shangri La, will be open and available to Shangri La visitors free of charge. A restricted access parking lot for vehicles with proper handicap designation is located just inside the vehicular entrance gate of Shangri La.
About Shangri La Botanical Gardens and Nature Center
Nestled within 252 acres in the heart of Orange, Texas, Shangri La Botanical Gardens and Nature Center is a program of the Nelda C. and H.J. Lutcher Stark Foundation, a private foundation whose mission is to improve and enrich the quality of life in Southeast Texas and encourage and assist education. The unique ecosystem of Shangri La presents an ideal opportunity to further that mission as well as carry on the vision of H.J Lutcher Stark, the man who originally developed the gardens more than 60 years ago.
The formal Botanical Gardens contain more than 300 plant species in five formal "rooms" as well as four sculpture "rooms" plus thousands of nesting birds in Ruby Lake. The Nature Center includes Adams Bayou boat excursions to educational outposts, a 15-acre Beaver Pond, a state-of-the-art bird blind, a bat house, and more up-close encounters with nature.
Shangri La Botanical Gardens and Nature Center was named one of the world’s top 10 green projects by the American Institute of Architects and was also the first project in Texas and the 50th project in the world to earn the U.S. Green Building Council's Platinum Certification for LEED®-NC, which verifies that the design and construction of Shangri La reached the highest green building and performance measures. Shangri La offers a glimpse of how people can live in harmony with nature, as it strives in its mission to Mentor Children of All Ages to Be Kind to Their World.
Additional programs of the Stark Foundation are the Stark Museum of Art, The W.H. Stark House and the Frances Ann Lutcher Theater for the Performing Arts.
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