September
NOTE: This month’s newsletter is much shorter than
normal since we sent out an August newsletter. We are hoping that you will read carefully
the details that we’ve included.
Sometimes Jean and Patty wonder if anyone does read it?
Can you believe
it? We are almost done with summer. I sure could use another two-three months,
please? I am looking forward to seeing
everyone again though! I haven’t seen
most of you since May. Felt badly that I
had to miss the June meeting since my mom was in the ER that day, her health is
continuing to decline.
Hope
most of you have marked Sept. 20 on
your calendar. We have NO speaker but
some great activities planned and as always, yummy snacks. We are going to try several new things this
year due to the survey results. A HUGE thank you to those of you who took the time to send the
surveys in or talked to a board member about improvements.
1-
There will be two seating areas at our regular meetings. Chairs in the front are for those that prefer
to be closer to the “action” and better able to hear what is going on (FIRST
CLASS seating!) AND tables with chairs in the middle to back section for those
who prefer having a table to write on and to place your snacks, etc.
2-
We are going to have at least two meetings
this year with no speakers. Many of you
asked for more time to get to know each other and not feel so rushed at each
meeting. By the way, Beryl has done a
fabulous job of finding us new exciting speakers. Be sure to check out the Calendar of Events
online at http://mcminnvillegardenclub.org
3-
The last meeting of the year will be a
picnic at the Yamhill Historical Society where we’ll be able to look at how our
contributions have been able to help them improve their site.
4-
We won’t be doing so much money
collecting at meetings. Penny Pines
collections will be taken at the registration table and if the club decides to
support some projects that are not budgeted, we’ll use money from savings to do
so rather than collecting more money
5-
We have scheduled our field trips to be taken
on the Wednesdays after the meeting
and the Arts and Crafts activities for the
Monday after the meeting. Any of
those meetings that require money to do will need to be collected before a
deadline date. We had an unfortunate
event this summer again when 14 people signed up for the field trip/luncheon to
the Gathering Together Farm and only 6 showed up that morning. We were very fortunate that they did not
charge us for the additional 8 meals we had ordered. Those of us who went had a marvelous lunch
and fun trip~!
6-
The tour/faire looks like it will be a
go. The overall tour position that was
held by Gaye and Mike last year will be broken into THREE positions: One to deal with all the paperwork necessary for
the event to occur, one to deal with the garden selection and garden owners’
communications and one to work with all the teams for the actual tour itself.
September 20, 2010 Meeting Update
We’ll be spending some time talking
about our summer BLOOPERS. I sure had
several this year with my plants. One of them was my corn as you can see from
the picture!!!! Let’s laugh and learn
together.
Speaking of together, we need to vote
on the budget. After receiving some
great input from a few of you, we’ve revised the budget. Take a look at it at http://mcminnvillegardenclub.org/Macgcinformation_files/2Proposed2010-11budget.htm as well as the updated calendar of events at:
http://mcminnvillegardenclub.org/newsletters_files/Aug2010NL_files/draft10-11calendar.htm
There are several open positions
available this year. A signup will be at
the meeting so be thinking about where you’d like to interject your passion for
gardening, helping the club and doing community service. Here’s what you can pick from!!!
Backyard Habitat newsletter
articles, Horticulture newsletter articles, Habitat for Humanity Coordinator,
Membership Assistant, Nominations Chair, Photographer, Roving Reporter
newsletter articles, Telephone, and Yard of the Month Coordinator.
Full
descriptions of the responsibilities will be discussed at the meeting. Hidden word for this month is RAIN.
Let’s all take on the “I think
I Can, I Think I Can, I Knew I Could”
attitude of The Little Engine That Could. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Little_Engine_That_Could
)
Yard of the Month
Judy
E. and Mildred R. have done a fabulous job this summer of selecting Yard of the
Month locations. If you missed seeing
them around town, be sure to take a quick peak at: http://mcminnvillegardenclub.org/yards2010.htm
TOUR 2011
A HUGE thanks
to Jean L., Georgia Q., and Sharon G. as they look for five fabulous backyards
to be included in our event. They’ve
been scouring McMinnville peaking over fences, around bushes and behind
buildings. It has been tough going for
them thus far so if ANY of you have
ANY suggestions for yards to look at, please contact Jean. At publication time, they have only been able
to secure one. Four to go!!! With your help.
Membership Update
Thanks to those of you who quickly sent in your
renewals to Stephanie. There are several who still need pictures taken
too. Hope you are at the September
meeting. The camera will be there! The rush every year is to try to get all
membership up-to-date by the end of the first meeting so we can publish a
correct directory for your use. This
next year we will only be collecting in June and September. We are also going to change the publishing
component. We will be emailing the
directory to all members who have email so that they can print as many copies
as they want. Two more times during the
year we will email out an updated directory.
For those without email access, we will be printing copies for pick up at the meetings as well
as the addendums twice a
year. We are hoping this
will better serve your needs and help us save printing expenses. It will be emailed with the October
newsletter and available at the October meeting for those who are unable to
print it.
Note: If you currently
receive your newsletter by regular mail service but could connect with someone
who has e-mail and have them print it for you, it would save the club many
dollars that could be spent on other projects.
If you would let Jean know if you want to be taken OFF the post office
mailing list it would be greatly appreciated.
If you haven’t renewed yet and want to
be in the directory, please send your $15 to Stephanie Janik. Thanks!
Don’t want to keep pestering folks.
We have just been trying to be efficient/correct
when we print! A BIG
thanks to Stephanie and Cindy Flake for working so diligently on this
production.
Exploring The Gathering Together
Farm’s crops after a delicious lunch!
Internet Links:
Pioneer District Newsletter
http://oregongardenclubs.org/pioneer/
State website
http://oregongardenclubs.org/default.htm
September links:
Dividing
Iris and Perennials
http://gardening.about.com/od/perennials/ss/?once=true&
Fall
Gardenpalooza
Best Fall
Flowers