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PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE:

Happy Spring! I am exceedingly pleased to report that the St. Patrick’s Day dinner party was a smashing success! We had a big turnout with nearly seventy members and guests in attendance. We enjoyed a traditional Irish dinner, enhanced with Irish whiskey and live accordion music from All Things Accordion.

Credit goes to Dottie McHugh and her team including Kathleen Anderson, Page Fenston, Darlene Hartman and Sima Talai, who created a festive environment for the evening. Special thanks to Dan McHugh for gamely pitching in to lend muscle power to the project. Thank you all!

Our March program Green School Gardens was wonderful and informative. We didn’t know that every school in the city can have a garden if they chose to. We took a walk over to the West Portal Elementary School to experience first hand the lovely gardens created by the young students here. Many thanks to Sally Kipper for organizing this event and provided the nourishing refreshments. Thanks to Darlene Hartman, our horticulture chair, for sharing her beautiful succulents and her thoughts on how to grow a succulent garden. Flowers credit goes to Nancy Hagosian and Anna Bolechowski.

Parliamentarian Sima Talai convened the nominating committee in February to select a slate of officers and directors for the September 2012 – June 2013 Garden Club term. The committee consisted of two members from the board (Kathe Farrell and Helen Scholten), two members from the membership at large (Teresa Callan and Trish Hurt), and a fifth member selected by those four (Anna Bolechowski). Their recommendations are:


   President    Yen Bachmeier
   Vice President    Sally Kipper
   Treasurer    Kathleen Farrell
   Recording Secretary    Pansy Waller
   Financial Secretary    Donna Earhart
   Corresponding Secretary            Ann Impett
   Parliamentarian    Sima Talai
   Auditor    Helen Scholten               
   Directors   
   Clorinda Aldrich,
   Nancy Hagosian,
   Mary Hanson,
   Eva Monroe,
   Marica Salma
  


Thanks to Kathe Farrell for chairing the committee. Please join us at the April 16th General Meeting and vote to elect the FHGC officers for the incoming fiscal year.

   --Yen Bachmeier



MEETINGS AND EVENTS
   
Monday, April 2     Board Meeting
10:00 AM     Coffee time – Hosted by Clorinda Aldrich at the clubhouse
10:30 AM     Meeting – Board and Standing Chairs
   
Monday, April 16     General Meeting & Program: The Gardens of Alcatraz
01:00 PM     Social
01:30 PM     General Meeting
02:00 PM     Presentation by Shelagh Fritz – Project Manager/Horticulturist, the Garden Conservancy
03:00 PM     Refreshments - Hosted by Kathleen Anderson and Eva Monroe   
   
Saturday, April 21     Spring Fling Community Service (See revised flyer for dates of donations)
01:30-04:30 PM     Swap & Share – Women clothing and fashion jewelry
    Note that there will be no refreshments at this event. We need “clean fingers” while handling clothes.





NOTES

Upcoming Events:
5/21 – Strawberry Social and new officers installation for 2012-2013 term year (Please noted date changed from 5/14)







Flyer Insert “Spring Fling” Community Service – Saturday, April 21 @1:30 PM
   
Fling



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