WSAZ Home and Garden Show
First on everyone’s
mind is the WSAZ Home
and Garden Show on March 13-15. A great lineup of speakers will be on
hand throughout the weekend who will be sharing gardening information and useful
tips. This is a great
opportunity to gain hours of education or service for renewal of your MG
certification. If you would like to volunteer and have not already signed up,
please contact Connie Berk (berkc@marshall.edu, (304) 696-7341 (W) or (304)
429-7318 (H)). She is especially looking for volunteers to help with the
speakers, handing out and collecting evaluations, calendars and other
tasks. She is also looking for volunteers to assist visitors at our
booth, especially on Saturday the 14th. Of course, there will
be a hospitality room for our group so feel free to bring a snack to share if
you would like. Victor Simpson has made
arrangements for the purchase of a beautiful quilt that will be auctioned off
at our booth. This is always a great
fundraiser for us.
WV Master Gardener Conference
The 2015
WV Master Gardener Conference is coming up on March 27-29 at Pipestem
Resort. If you cannot attend the conference but have items to donate to
the fundraising auction, please bring them to the Home and Garden Show and we
will see that they are entered into the items for auction.
Dues
Our treasurer, Greg
Norris, asks me to remind you that 2015 CCMGA dues ($16) can be mailed to PO
Box 7661, Huntington, WV 25578-7661.
Perennial Exchange and Plant Sale
This year the Perennial
Exchange and Plant Sale will be held in conjunction with the Tri-State Sustainability Fair on May 16
at Heritage Station. The Perennial
Exchange and Plant Sale will run from 10 am until noon. This is a great opportunity for Master
Gardeners or MGITs to earn volunteer hours.
All of your time spent planting, tending and preparing plants for the
exchange and sale counts toward volunteer hours for renewal or certification. You will also have an opportunity to swap
perennials with others from the group so you can delight another gardener with
your excess perennials while adding variety to your own garden. All proceeds
from the plant sale go to CCMGA so the value of your plant donations can be
fully tax deductable since we are a 501c3 organization. Following the Perennial Exchange and Plant
Sale, volunteers from our club can staff our booth until 5 pm to give out
information on our group, when we meet and how to become a Master Gardener. Please contact Connie Berk (berkc@marshall.edu,
(304) 696-7341 (W) or (304) 429-7318 (H)) to sign up for a time to work the Perennial
Exchange and Plant Sale (10 am – noon) or the informational booth (noon – 5 pm)
on May 16 at Heritage Station.
Lapsed Membership Reactivation
When I met with our
advisor, Rich Sherman, earlier this week he communicated that he is very interested
in assisting members who have gone inactive in regaining active
membership. He is willing to be as
flexible as he can possibly be in getting members back with us. More information on his “amnesty plan” will
be available at our Tuesday, April 14 meeting.
Refreshment Committee
Joan Firth, Anne Ray, Mary
Beckelhimer and others in the group have expressed an interest in forming a
refreshment committee to bring snacks for sharing at monthly meetings. If you are interested in being involved in
the refreshment committee, please contact Joan (jmfirth@live.com)
who is chairing the committee.
CCMGA Website
In meetings with the
CCMGA officers we are really attempting to cut down on the number of email messages
that we send out. No one wants to fill
your inbox with a ton of mail. To that
end we are trying to be post notices and events to our group’s website (http://cabellcountymastergardeners.com or http://cabellcountymg.blogspot.com/)
and to keep the calendar on the right side of the page current. If you
click on an event on the calendar you can learn more details and even a map to
the event location is provided for many entries. Just recently we have updated
the webpage with information on speakers for the WSAZ Home and Garden Show. If you look on the “About CCMGA”
tab of the website, you will find links to our updated bylaws,
maps to meeting locations, the slate of upcoming speakers for our monthly education
sessions as well as notes from previous sessions, meeting minutes, treasurer’s
reports and other pertinent information.
In addition, all prior posts are archived on the website to you can look
up previous events easily. If you scroll to the bottom of the page and click
the link that says “Older Posts” you will see information from previous
posts. At this time, our website has had
nearly 1200 visitors. We hope to make
that the primary method of communication for our group. Even this email will be posted to the
website!
I hope to see everyone
at the WSAZ Home and Garden Show in a couple of weeks. Please feel free to contact me at beckelhimer@gmail.com at any time.
Steve Beckelhimer,
President
Cabell County Master
Gardener Association
