eNewsletter / January
2010
Vol. 2-1
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 Awards Postmark Deadline for Remaining Awards is
January 10
It's not too late
to apply for an award. See the CGCI website for more information about awards
or contact the CGCI Awards Chairman, Nancy Lee Loesch. Remember, "You can't win, if you're
not in!"
The
following awards are still
available:
CGCI Lifetime
Achievement; CGCI Lifetime Service;
CGCI Man and Woman of the Year;
CGCI Gardener of the Year;
Awards of Honor and Merit;
Youth Leader of the Year;
Flower Arranger of the Year;
Landscape Design Consultant of the Year; Gardening Consultant of the Year; Civic Development; Civic Landscaping; Landscape Design Advocate; Conservation Projects; Bird Conservation; Backyard Habitat; Butterfly Conservation: Portfolio; Membership
Promotion; Touring; Club Program; Seminar & Workshop; Achievement for a Single Event; Photography Awards; Horticulture; Memorial
Planting; Best "Green" Recipe;
Home Garden; Home Garden Tour; Publicity Press Book; Publication - Article by individual; All Youth Awards (except High School Essay
Contest). Flower
Show Awards: California Flower Show Achievement Awards
(standard, small standard, all horticulture show); Designer's
Choice; Flower Show Staging; Flower Show Table
Setting.
Attn:
District Directors
G-4 Blue Ribbon
Certificate of Achievement Award
January
1 is the deadline to get the names of all eligible clubs in
your district to the CGCI Awards Certificate Chairman, Launa Gould, for this
award -- all you have to do is email (or mail) the list of eligible
clubs to Launa. See page 124 of the 2009-2010 CGCI
Yearbook, Manual, Roster for the Scale of Points (and the
Scale of Points can also be found on the CGCI website).
Note that only 100 out of 200 points are required for a club to
be awarded the Blue Ribbon Certificate of Achievement.
Membership News
New membership brochure for your
district/club to
use
President Maryanne Lucas has
created a beautiful, color tri-fold membership brochure for
your district/club to use to attract new
members. The prospective garden club member will read how
he/she will connect with an international gardening community and
find much more than a garden variety of activities once joining
a garden club. There is space on the reverse side for
your district/club to add its contact
information.
This membership tool is complimentary as a
benefit of membership in CGCI. Download the new order form to
obtain this and the other promotional materials from your district
director (to be obtained at the next CGCI meeting in San Diego
in January) or order directly from CGCI Membership Chairman, Rita
Desilets, if items are to be shipped to
you.
Does your
club want more
members?
To help people
interested in finding a garden club in their area, CGCI offers a
locator page to help people find clubs by using zip codes. If you
want your club to be included in the zip code finder, see the CGCI
website for more information. The form is easy to fill
out! For more inforamtion, contact the Zip Code Chairman,
George Speer.
Honor Your
Members and Support the Scholarship Program
CGCI Life Memberships may be
purchased as an honorarium, or individuals may purchase their own.
The donations support the scholarship program and are fully tax
deductible. The donation for the
CGCI Life Membership is only $100, and individuals receive a Life
Membership Certificate. Make checks payable to "CGCI" and send to
the Life Membership Chairman, Carlotta Wixon.
Find more information and the application form on the CGCI website.
Pacific Region and National Garden Clubs, Inc. Life Memberships are
also available. Information about these Life
Memberships are also on the CGCI website.
Donations to the
Scholarship Program
Did you know that
Kurt Cecconi and
Justin Frisco of
The Principal Financial Group in San Diego has pledged to match up to $1000 for any
donations which are received to the Scholarshop Program (not
including Life Memberships) this term? To donate, send
your donations in any amount, payable to "CGCI," to CGCI Scholarship
Chairmen, Evelyn Broaddus (1129
W. Standley St., Ukiah, CA 95482) or Joyce Dean (832
Alvarado St., Redlands, CA 92373).
Landscape Council
News
Landscape Design
Council Chairman Mary Lou Goodwin
reminds all club members that they can
present their CGCI membership cards for free admission to
the San
Diego Botanic Garden (formerly known as Quail Botanic
Gardens) on January 6-10,
2010. The Garden is located at 230 Quail
Gardens Dr., Encinitas, CA
(telephone 760-436-0917/email info@SDBGarden.org). In addition,
The Garden will be honored by
the CGCI Landscape Design Council with a Landscape Design
Commendation at the CGCI Winter Board Meeting on Thursday, January 7, 2010 at 8:00
pm. Also, the most recent Landscape Council Newsletter has been posted on the CGCI website.
Flower Show Symposium to be held
in
Sacramento
Mark your
calendars for April 7-9, 2010
Flower Show
Symposium Chairman, Gloria Aminian,
has finalized the plans for the Symposium to be held at
the Sacramento DoubleTree Hotel in Sacramento, April 7-9,
2010. NGC instructors are Jean Moran from Michigan and Sandi
Joyce from Ohio. Tapestries and Pot-Et-Fleur designs
will be studied, along with horticulture. Not only flower show
judges attend symposium; any interested person is welcome to
attend to further his/her knowledge in flower shows,
horticulture and flower design. The brochure
and application
form are on the CGCI website under the Calendar
Section/April 7-9, 2010.
Club
Services
CGCI Member
Award of Dictinction
Mary-Jo Noth, Member
Award of Distinction Special Education Fund Chairman, reports
that she has received the first applicaiton for this new
award! Which club member(s) do you want to honor
with this new award? Let Mary-Jo know! Check out
the details on the CGCI website.
Want to be a member of the CGCI Board
of Directors?
The CGCI Nominating
Committee reminds all garden club members that CGCI Personnel Forms are on
the website. Here is your opportunity to serve the
largest volunteer state garden club in the
world! Fill out a Personnel Form if you
wish to serve CGCI in any way. Any questions, contact
Dolores Moffat,
Chairman of the CGCI Nominating Committee.
2009-2011 School Gardens
Project - "Bee Nature's Partner...Plants and Pollinators"
The objectives
of "Bee Nature's Partner...Plants and
Pollinators" are to educate
school students by creating native gardens on school grounds.
By using the classroom as the laboratory, this project can engage
students and teachers. In planning for this project, clubs
should emphasize using native plants that attract bees, butterflies,
hummingbirds and other native pollinators to the garden. The
gardens may be large or small, portable or stationary. Clubs
may also incorporate educational instruction or materials and the
sustainability of the gardens. See NGC website for more
information.
Flower Show Stimulus
Package
The NGC Flower
Show Committee has prepared a stimulus package to
encourage clubs to hold Standard Flower Shows. The package will
contain a model schedule for a Small Standard Flower Show with
choices of titles that a club may adapt to suit its needs.
Other items in the package will include entry tags with information
on where to order, how to complete and samples of appropriate awards
ribbons. Any club that has never held a flower show or has not held
a Small Standard Flower Show in the past five years is eligible to
participate. A Certificate of Achievement will be awarded to clubs
that complete this new venture. Complete information can
be found on the NGC website.
"Keeping in
Touch" & "The National Gardener"
You can read NGC's
quarterly publication Keeping
in Touch on the NGC website. Complimentary copies of
Keeping in Touch were sent by NGC quarterly to all
club presidents, but now only available on line. It is NGC's
supplement to its larger publication, The National
Gardener, complimentary copies of which are sent to
all club presidents and district directors. The National
Gardener is what connects NGC to the regions, to
the state garden clubs, to the districts, to the member garden clubs
and, finally, to the individual garden club members. To
subscribe to The National Gardener, call 800-550-6007 or
download the subscription form.
Back to
School
News from NGC --
21st Century Changes
At the NGC 2009 Fall Board Meeting in
St. Louis, it was adopted that courses for all schools have no time
restrictions and, with the school sponsor's approval, may be
scheduced back to back. A garden club member student may take
all four courses in Environmental Studies, Gardening Study or
Landscape Design Study within a year and become an NGC Accredited
Consultant. Unchanged is the timeline for refresher credit for
Consultants and Masters. Credit will be granted once only
within a calendar year beginning in the year following receipt of
consultant or master consultant certification.
NGC Gardening Study Schools
If you are unable to attend
Course I of Gardening Study School
in a classroom, you can now take it on line. Although it will
not be as fun as interacting with other students in the classroom,
it is a great opportunity to study from your home. It is
approximately 6 hours long (depending on your rate of learning
through each study module), and you can enter the course
anytime to complete all or part of the course. Plus, you
have 30 days to complete the course once you start
it. You can take the course a lesson at a time, a module at a
time or all at once. Successful completion of this course will
earn you certification consistent with the NGC standards for
Gardening Study School, Course I. The on line course
includes: Basics of Botany (4 study modules); Soil and Soil
Preparation (3 study modules); Plant Propagation (2 study modules);
and Composting (1 study module). Gardening Consultants: You can also take this
online study course as refresher credit! For a limited time,
Learn2Grow (which is
the company that is in partnership with NGC to provide this
service) and NGC are offering this course at a 10%
discount. The current introductory price is $90.
Questions, see the NGC website or
contact CGCI's Gardening Study Schools Chairman Greg Pokorski.
NGC Landcape Design
Study Program
Please let Alexis Slafer, CGCI's
Landscape Design Study Program Chairman, know if your club or
district wants to sponsor a Landscape Design Study Program. Alexis can help you with all aspects of
setting up and running the study program, including names of
potential instructors.
Upcoming
Educational Opportunities
- February 18-20,
2010 Flower Show School, Course 4, Encinitas.
Sponsor: Palomar District. Chairman: Laura Crenshaw
- April 7-9,
2010 Flower Show Symposium, Sacramento.
Sponsor: CGCI. Chairman: Gloria
Aminian
- April 20-21, 2010
Gardening Study School,
Series 21, Course II, Loomis. Sponsor: Golden
Foothills District. Chairman: Patsy
Jeffery
- October 12-14, 2010
Flower Show School, Course 1. Sponsor:
Sacramento River Valley District. Chairman: Mary
Arakelian
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Pat Clayes.
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It's not
too late to register for Winter Board
Members of Palomar District invite you to the CGCI
Winter Board of Directors Meeting, January 8-10, 2010 in San
Diego, CA. The CGCI Board of Directors holds a meeting each
winter to conduct the business of CGCI. But the meetings are not
just filled with business. The schedule is designed to allow plenty
of time for attendees to meet new people, network, exchange ideas and “grow.”
The
location of the Winter Board Meeting this year is on
beautiful Mission Bay, right next
door to SeaWorld. Join
other CGCI members for this enjoyable weekend on beautiful
Mission Bay, seeing new places, learning new things, making new
connections with people from around the state and having a whole lot
of fun too. The registration form and additional
information, including hotel and
driving information, can be found on the CGCI
website.
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Information
for Chairmen & District
Directors
"Call" to Winter
Board Meeting
Reporting at Winter Board
Chairmen (and District
Dirctors) are encouraged, but not required, to give oral
reports, limited to three minutes. Please inform the CGCI
President
ASAP that an oral report will be
given so sufficient time can be allotted at the
meeting. Oral reports may also be given by the team's chairman
in place of an individual chairman's report.
However, all
chairmen (and District Directors) are asked to prepare and
submit three written reports: one each for the President
and Golden Gardens Editor, and a condensed (100
word maximum) report sent via email, if possible, to the
Recording Secretary Greg
Pokorski for distribution with the minutes. When sending
your report to Greg Pokorski, please note "CGCI WB 2010" on the
subject line of the email message.
Also, President Maryanne
Lucas asks that each chairman bring a short paragraph
stating how his/her chairmanship can best serve our member
clubs. CGCI wants to let the clubs know that our chairmen are
ready to help and what they have to offer.
Attn: Award
Judges
Due to the early date of the winter
board meeting, awards which must be postmarked by January 10 will
not be able to be judged at winter board. However, judges are
to bring whatever books of evidence, applications, etc. to winter
board for practice judging. Please do not bring the triplicate
reporting forms which were mailed to you, as there will be
"practice" reporting forms for you to use at the board
meeting. Any questions, contact the Awards Coordinator, Pat
Clayes.
Reimbursements for Chairmen &
District Directors
The Financial Secretary,
Joelle Holford, reminds chairmen to
submit reimbursement forms (along with
receipts) to Joelle at Winter Board or mail directly to
her. As stated at Fall Board 2009, the
Financial Secretary, Joelle
Holford, and Treasurer, Ed Dempsey, perfer that expenses
be submitted as they occur and that the chairmen not wait until June
to submit these. To find out how much your chairmenship is
allotted, see the Minutes
from the 2009 Post-Convention Meeting.
Information
for District
Directors
CGCI wants to not only know what is
happening in all of the districts, it also wants to know what the
clubs believe CGCI can do as a unified group to meet the
individual club needs. President Maryanne Lucas
believes that there is power in groups, and we should be using
it more than we do.
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