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Show UTAH ROSE CHAMPS Maurice and Leona Blotter. 35 West 800 North, Bountiful, are the official rose-growing champions of Utah after winning the "Queen of the Show" award at the recent Utah Rose Show, sponsored by the Utah Rose Society. More than 500 entries were judged at Sugar-house Sugar-house Park Garden Center. The Blotters were presented a silver plaque and a traveling trophy for their "Queen of the Show" award; a plaque for the "Best Pink Rose"; "Queen of the Show award for miniature roses of Peaches and Cream; and vases for the "Best Floribunda," a rose called "Sunfire." The Blotters have more than 400 rose bushes in their garden and in 1976 using a theme of the bi-Centennial, were awarded the "Best Rose Yard" in the state and the previous year (1975) they received the Bountiful Chamber of Commerce Beautification Award. |