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Federated Garden Clubs of Missouri

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"Call to Summer Board Meeting"

• Wednesday, July 15, 2009
• 9:30 am
• Business Meeting 10am
• Lunch 12pm
• Place
  • Vance Vineyard and Winery 573 783 8800

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Southeast District Newsletter
May 25, 2009

June Newsletter
May 25, 2009

We've come to see your garden, so lovely and so fair,
But is that POISON IVY, behind that garden chair?
Your roses are so loverly, I cannot help but stare,
But what's that CREEPY CRAWLY, on that purple flower there?

Beginning in June and all summer long, most of our clubs will be having their annual garden tours to show off their lovely gardens to friends and neighbors.  What better way to share love and knowledge of gardening, as well as sharing  few plants along the way.

                                    "Those Pesky Deer"

In the spring, the deer families sent out patrols to all areas in anticipation of the delicacies soon to come to the gardens of America.  They reported back to their families that hostas, daisies and other tasty flowers, tender shrubs, and trees are ready to be harvested for their banquets, with roses for dessert.

Meanwhile, the unsuspecting gardener is working from dawn to  dusk to beautify the world, and show off his gardening skills to his friends and neighbors.  Imagine his surprise to get up one morning, and see his garden in shambles and his most prized flowers gone.  Of course this causes him great despair.

Eventually he has learned to solve this problem.  He will spray his gardens with "Liquid Fence."  This spray does not appeal to the tastes of the deer.

It does not wash off with rain and is environmentally friendly.  Best of all, he only needs to spray about three times during the year.

                                              "Awards"

In my May Newsletter, when speaking of the different Awards at the State Convention, I neglected to mention that Nadine Davis from the Ramblewood Garden Club in Cape Girardeau, won the first place award for photography in the Art Walk,  with her picture of a hummingbird sitting on her hand.  Congratulations to Nadine.

                                            "State Fair"

Kathy Faver, Dorothy Jackson and Ruth Hawkins have again agreed to do the "Dried Flower Arrangements"  to represent our District at the State Fair in Sedalia in August.  They all won blue ribbons for their arrangements last year.  They are so much appreciated.  I can't thank them enough.

                                            "Coming up"

I will soon send out the call letter for the Summer Board Meeting.  It will be July 15th.

                                              "Another one?"

Are you getting tired of hearing my old sing-along songs?  Here is another really old one!!!!!!!!!

She's only a bird in a gilded cage, a wonderful sight to see,
You think she's happy and free from care, she's not what she seems to be;
It's sad when you think of her wasted life, but youth cannot mate with age;
Her beauty was sold, for an old man's gold, she's a bird in a gilded cage.

My best to you.........Lois Barker....SED

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2 New Awards!

Southeast District Membership Award

Because membership in garden clubs is a top priority for the National Garden Clubs and the Federated Garden Clubs of Missouri, and because new members continue the viability of all garden clubs, I am pleased to announce the new Southeast District Membership Award.

Our first new award is an annual award to be given to the garden club that increases its membership the most each year. To be eligible for this award, the club treasurer needs to send in the names of all new members to be counted on the November 1, club roster for paying district dues. In the event of a tie, the greatest percentage increase in membership will win. New memberships will be counted from one district meeting to the next. So if your club loses two members but still gains three new members over the course of a year, then it will be the new members that will be considered. Sponsorship of a new club will also be counted in the year that the club is federated.

The registration of each new member is sent to the District Director Lois Barker and the District Treasurer Violet Hazelwood. The District Director and Treasurer will compute the numbers for the winning club. The new membership count will run from this district meeting (October 2008) to our next meeting, so the first award will be given at the Southeast District Meeting in 2009.

The winning garden club will be presented twenty-five dollars ($25.00). Also this award will be called the Edna Ruth Fischer Southeast District Membership Award. Money for this award is being donated in her name by her garden club -The Four Seasons Garden Club of Cape Girardeau. Thank you to the Four Seasons Garden Club for making the monetary portion of this award a reality and we thank them for their generosity.

So let's get busy and sponsor a new club and/or invite our new friends to become garden club members, too!

Submitted by Assistant SE District Director Nancy Bahn Oct 2008.

Southeast District Garden Club of the Year Award

Because we have so many great garden clubs in the Southeast District, who do so many wonderful projects, who have dear, social friendships among fellow gardeners, and who provide many educational opportunities through their programs; we have established a new annual award to honor those efforts: The Southeast District Garden Club of the Year.

A garden club does not have to do anything extra to win this award, except tell in a complete and descriptive way about your club. Judging will be based on the Point System of the Federated Garden Clubs of Missouri Handbook, relating to Club Ratings. Please check the updated and revised Awards Section of the Handbook.

The winning club will be judged on each Garden Club President's Annual Report which is sent to the District Director by January 10. The 2009 Southeast Garden Club of the Year Award winner will be decided by a Committee of three (3) judges, including the District Director, Assistant Director and a Member of the District Officers or District Chairmen. The third committee member this year will be Lois Johns, former Southeast District Director and the State Club Ratings Chairman. Lois has graciously accepted our request to guide us in this first selection, as she does this statewide in selecting of the State Garden Club of the Year. We are pleased to have her help us out.

An individual club will be eligible to receive this award once in every three years. A certificate and a check for $50.00 dollars, provided by the District, will be presented to the winning club. The Second Place club will also be announced and receive a Certificate of Appreciation for their work.

The first Southeast District Garden Club of the Year Award will be presented by our District Director next year at the 2009 District Meeting. So fill out those reports as best as you can, and according to the guidelines.

Thank you, Nancy Bahn, SE District Assistant Director

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