Master Gardener Meeting Minutes 1/9/14
Shepherd of the Hills Lutheran Church
1601 N. San Francisco
Our outgoing officers President Debi Stalvey and Secretary
Ann Eagan were recognized and presented with a house plant from Warner’s
nursery for their many contributions to the Master Gardener Association.
President Debi Stalvey introduced the new and continuing officers
and committee chairs for 2014.
President Hunter Kemmet, Vice President Charlotte Dodgson, Secretary
Sherline Alexander, Co-Treasurer Crys Wells, Co-Treasurer Linda Guarino, Blog/MG
Projects Loni Shapiro, Community Markets Ann Eagan, Education Ed Skiba, Historian
Tammy Valdovino
Debi also reminded everyone that 2014 membership dues are
$10. Linda Guarino began accepting dues immediately. CMGA membership forms are
located on the table by the front door.
Fill out the form to join. There
are three levels certified – graduates of the master gardener class who have
completed volunteer hours, associate – previous master gardeners who are not
current in the required certification and trainee - currently taking class or
working on volunteer hours.
This information is in the CMGA bylaws located on the blog under
Master Gardener Association Documents and Forms (under Pages).
Hattie Braun presented Tammy Valdovino with her master
gardener certificate and name badge.
Continuing Education
David Brimhall on
“Floral Arranging”
David has been a resident of Flagstaff for 30 years. He is a
master gardener, having gone through the class three years ago. He
is an artist and professional florist working at Sutcliff Floral and Floral
Arts, Ltd before that. He, Charlotte, and Debi do the MG project at Riordan
Mansion. Attached is the hand out from
the lecture - LINK. Dave outlined the basics of “Floral Arranging” while
demonstrating several examples (see blog photo).
Refreshments
Thanks to Loni Shapiro and Julie Holmes for the
refreshments.
Business Meeting – Hunter
Kemmet
Hunter asked the group to consider volunteering to help with
the Home and Garden Show in March.
All CMGA Annual
Reports are available on our blog at http://coconinomgassociation.blogspot.com/
President’s report
Debi Stalvey
shared highlights of the Coconino Master Gardener Association from 2013.
Financial report
Linda Guarino Total
CMGA income for 2013 was $3,914.72. We
raised almost $1,605.00 from calendars, $945.87 from membership, and $451.35
from donations and $911.81 from the garden resale.
MG Program Happenings (class/home show) –
Hattie Braun
Home and Garden Show will take place March 22-24 at the Sky
dome at NAU. Volunteers are needed to
staff the Master Gardener booth and give gardening talks. The next Home Show
meeting will be January 16, 2013 at 1:00pm at the extension office. The second meeting will be Friday, February 8
at 10:30 a.m. Contact Hattie at hbraun@cals.arizona.edu
if you want to help.
Continuing Education
– Jim Mast
Charlotte Dodgson will talk about house plants in February
and Tom Kolb will talk about trees in March, in August Rachel Edelstein will
talk about mushrooms.
Community Markets –
Sherline Alexander
Community Markets were pretty successful this year. CMGA was represented at a lot of these
events. We had total of about 175 people
visit out booth.
MG Projects – Loni
Shapiro
A new list of
project will be done in March, when sites are back to planning for the garden
season. Many are changing (Hospice, Emeritus, and MNA). She will meet with
Hattie about projects that are not on my list. Hope is to have a final draft
done for the end of March. If anyone wants to help with this committee contact
her.
Blog
– Loni Shapiro
She is back to
doing the blog. New up on it: photo, seed catalogs, some spring educational
garden events, and in the right column you will find officer and committee
reports from 2013. Debi Salvey’s report is on the main entry area along with
the info on the new MG Class for Feb. Please send Loni any additions you may
have for the Educational/Volunteer reports. If you are interested in writing an
article you can either send it to her as an attachment or she will add you as a
writer and show you how to enter.
The Cowboy
Caviar was added as an entry on the recipe list.
Volunteer Support –
Crys Wells
Year-to-date total hours reported as of 12/31/13; 4765.5
volunteer hours and 891.25 education hours.
Please record your 2013 volunteer and education hours by the
end of January. The link is on the blog (coconinomgassociation.blogspot.com).
Gardening Questions?
The Flagstaff area is
very dry right now, make sure to water bushes and trees.
Ann Eagan moved to
adjourn the meeting, Jim Mast second the motion; meeting adjourned.
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