Meeting Minutes, October 11, 2012

Seven garden club members were present for the meeting.

The treasurer was not able to attend the meeting so there was no treasurer's report. Everyone was told that the minutes from the September meeting are available on the blog.

Pam showed us a pamphlet that she created and printed as advertising for the garden club. It looks great! At the November meeting she will show it again and hopefully, we will have enough members present to discuss the pamphlet again and decide how many we would like to order for the club. There is money budgeted for club advertising (such as the pamphlet) that is separate from the money budgeted for advertising the annual plant sale.

We still need to collect annual dues from some of the members. The price is still only $5.00. What a deal. Memberships to the Horticulture Society are due, as well, if you would like to join them.

We discussed that the Welcome to Grantsburg sign looked great this year and we still need to come up with a group to do fall clean up at the sign. Pam will post it on the blog asking for volunteers.

We discussed that we will keep the same theme this year for our spot for the Holiday in the Park. We still need volunteers to help with that. We will revisit that at the November meeting, too.

We still need to do some planning of events for next year so we can plan for our yearbook. We will discuss that in November and we need to elect new officers for the next year. Kris H. indicated that she will NOT be able to be the Vice President for the next term. Mary G. will NOT be available to be the treasurer for the next term.

Sign up sheets for volunteers for committees and for refreshments were passed around. We still have many open slots that need to be filled.

Pam D. attended the Grantsburg Chamber of Commerce meeting today. She discussed that a little bit. Pam had a survey for us to answer regarding attracting more tourism to Grantsburg. It was interesting discussing it and being able to write down our input.

Our November meeting will be about making braided wheat items. We are looking for a source of wheat. Anyone know where we may get some?? The next meeting is on November 8.

Pam provided us with a trivia game about gardening that included questions relating to the presentations and guest speakers that we had at our meetings this year. It was so much fun. Tim T. was the big winner and took home the door prize (which he gave to his lovely wife, as it was a beautiful blue wallet purse). Thank you so much, Pam, for the fun trivia game. You put a lot of work in to it and it was wonderful.

Janet provided the refreshments. We sure hope that Nori, Carrie and Rosemary will be better soon.

See you all in November.

Submitted by Janet B.