“Welcome to the Burg Where The East Meets West”
Ellensburg, WA
June 9-11, 2020
Click HERE for the Convention Registration Form
Click HERE for the optional tours descriptions
Click HERE for Gala dinner details
ELWD General Membership Meeting
When: Monday, February 24
Where: St. Andrew’s Lutheran Church, 2650 148th Ave SE Bellevue (Eastgate).
Cost: $10 if preregistered (pay at door); $15 walk-ins (making a reservation is best so food and set up are prepared for you)
Programs: Horticulture, Virginia Ferguson, “Fuchsias in the Garden”; Design, Jon Throne “Trends in Design”
Schedule: Set Up – 8:30-9:30 Registration Table Open 9:00 – 9:45 Welcome and Program: 10:00 Business: 11:00 Lunch 11:30- 12:30 Program 12:30 Clean Up 1:30
Registration Deadline: Thursday February 20 Contact Jean Hurt bajhjean@comcast.net
Grants up to $1,000.00 are available for your club. Guidelines are included in the application. Attached is the Revised Grant Application which decreases the matching requirements from 50% to 20% and extending the application process toe March 15.
See the attached flyer for this free Master Gardener Program on February 15th in Sammamish and North Bend.
February-Pruning-Flyer
Information may be found on the Calendar under the Events menu item for February 24 2020.
OFFICIAL CALL LETTER
A Creative Adventure Flower Show and the Spring Board Meeting of the
Washington State Federation of Garden Clubs will be held March 9-11, 2020
Little Creek Casino Resort
91 W. State Route 108,
Shelton, WA 98584
Full Details Here and on the State Web Site:
2020-March-Call-Letter-Workshop-Schedule-1Here’s a link to the East Lake Washington District of Garden Clubs (ELWD) Containers on Loan Program. Clicking on a thumbnail photo should bring up a larger image. You may have to scroll the screen down to see dimensions, description, and other details. You’ll find 100 photos here — everything in the Loan Program — although as shown a few have been sold or otherwise disposed of. Contact Lana to borrow items
http://www.flickr.com/photos/12187878@N02/sets/72157601722552021
Your Garden Club can participate in a meaningful and practical conservation project by contributing $68.00 to a Penny Pine plantation as part of the costs of replanting replacement and/or trees indigenous (Not Just Pine Trees) to a particular damaged area, whether by fire or by other natural catastrophe. You may designate a specific State you wish to have benefit from this contribution.
Under a Conservation agreement, the Forest Service will do the planting, using your donation together with Federal funds, and will provide to the plantation the same protection from fires, insects, and disease given other forested areas.
For each $68.00 contribution, you will receive a Penny Pines Certificate from National Garden Clubs, Inc. made “In Honor of: ____________” or “In Memory of: __________” a special someone who has made a difference in the world, just by being in it. (Certificates will be issued according to information listed on form see below on how to obtain form).
The plantations are a part of the regular National Forest reforestation program planted on burned-over and brush-covered areas which are potentially productive timberlands. Planting sites are selected by the Supervisor of each National Forest. These plantations provide soil protection, watershed protection, soil stabilization, future harvestable timber, as well as beauty and shade for recreation.
Contributions may be made from year to year under the original agreement, but must be a minimum of $68.00 (or multiples of) made payable to “NGC- Penny Pines” and mailed to:
National Garden Clubs, Inc.
National Headquarters
4401 Magnolia Ave.
St. Louis, MO 63110-3492
A completed form must be included which can be download from the NGC Website or contact your NGC Chairman
Penny Pines Awards will be presented each year at the NGC Convention to States which have donated the greatest number of Plantations and whose clubs demonstrated the most ingenuity in promoting education in conservation by creating public awareness of the need to protect and manage our National Forest resources.
Let’s all publicize our objectives and establish even more Penny Pines Plantations for the reforestation of our National Forests!
For details on the Penny Pines Program visit our National Garden Clubs, Inc. website at: www.gardenclub.org
Heather White
2108 Chestnut Oak CircleCollege Station, TX 77845-4168
(979)220-7545 (c) heathermwhitemd@aol.com
WACONIAH
Washington, Arizona, California, Oregon, Nevada, Idaho, Alaska, Hawaii
November 2019 Vol 47 No 3
Enjoy this informative newsletter. Articles with photos are from the Pacific Region membership. An excellent article on Roundup and Preen is from a Washington state member. Or check out the DIY Snowflake from recycling plastic rings. Learn more bout turmeric or maybe the West Coast Monarch Movement or the Pacific Region Bird: The Owl. Excellent reading
