Highlights of the October 2014 meeting! A great time was had by all!

The October meeting at Harvey Allen Outdoor Store was fun and productive.  Over 12 members were present including new member, Deb Norling!! Great refreshments were provided by Rosemary and Janet.

Lisa gave a tour of the metal fabrication and wood shop at the Harvey Allen Outdoor Store where husband Charlie produces specialty spa water fixtures, deer stands, and hunting shacks. Lisa produces barn quilts out of the shop as well. She talked about her interest in barn quilts and how she goes about making them. The process is exacting and time consuming. Lisa offers a large number of designs and various sizes of barn quilts and provides mounting services.  She dreams of one day being able to create a barn quilt tour in Burnett County.

On the business end:
We put together the slate of nominees for 2015 officers. They are:

• President: Kris Henning
• Vice President: Wanda Biorn
• Secretary: Audry Edmunds
• Treasurer: Georgianne Kleiss
• Information officer: Pam Davies

The election will be held at the next meeting. If you would like to stand for any of these positions, please put forward your name as soon as possible.

Dues are coming in for 2015. Please get your $5.00 dues in to Georgianne. If you want to join or renew with the Minnesota State Horticultural Society and subscribe to Northern Gardener please get a check to Georgianne for $37.00 made out to MSHS before October 29 so she can get these mailed in.

Standing and special committees are forming. If you'd like to help out on any of these, send in your name.

• Plant Sale: Kris, chair
• Community Planting: (Grantsburg sign, Memory Lake garden, new library addition gardens, fairgrounds planters) Pam/Georgianne/Lisa co-chairs
• Holiday in the Park: still looking for a chair in 2015
• Planning/Yearbook: Kris/Mary C co-chairs
• Tours: Linnea, chair
• Grantoberfest: Georgianne, chair
• PR/correspondence: Pam/Lisa Slater co-chairs

Refreshments calendar is being set up. We will post the list soon so others can fill in where needed.

If you have any program ideas or would like to volunteer to be on the garden tour in 2015 please let me or Kris know.

Jacki Bedworth will be doing a Willow Weaving Workshop at the next meeting on November 13, Thursday, 6:30 PM room 111, Grantsburg High School.This is always a fun workshop. Jacki will determine a good project we can do in an hour. Watch for further information.

If you haven't visited the Memory Lake Garden, here are a couple of pictures taken on October 5. Notice the  marigolds grown from seed and planted here by Georgianne!! They are huge!! Click on the pictures to get large view.