Serve our club and our community (it's not as hard as it looks)

We are currently in the planning process for 2019. That means our president has been circulating signup sheets for refreshments, committees, hosting and ideas for programs for the coming year. Many spots remain to be filled. This is our club, we all need to participate to make 2019 the best year yet!!

Please respond to burnettgardenclub@gmail.com to volunteer for any of the below.

Committees for 2019:

• Holiday in the Park/ Sandy Hinrichs and Pam
• Community Gardens/ Kris Henning

1.     Fairgrounds/ Ruth Anderson?
2.     Memory Lake Flagpole/ Pam Davies
3.     Library/ Pam Davies
4.     Hwy 70 Sign/ Kris Henning

• Grantoberfest:
• Plant Sale: Need Chair   helpers: Pam, Sandy, Rhonda
• PR/Hospitality: Need Chair
• Tours: Need Chair
• Program (put together and print booket): Need Chair

Refreshments for 2019:

• February: Rhonda & Janet
• March:  Pam & Georgianne
• April (at Wood River Garden Center): Wanda & Mary G
• July Garden Tour: Sandy 
• September:  Linnea & Janet
• October: 2 members needed
• November:  2 members needed

Hosting for 2019:

• Potting Party--May: at Kris Henning's will provide refreshments
• Spring Garden Party--June: Need host
• Summer BBQ--August: Need host
• Holiday Party--December: Need host

 Ideas for Progams 2019--We need ideas for 4 meetings and 1 workshop, they are:

• February:
• March:
• April: Wood River Garden Center preview
• September:
• October:
• November (Workshop):  

If you would like to do a presentation or workshop or know someone who would be good, please offer the idea.
New Ideas offered so far this year:

• Pumpkin, Squash and Gourds--ask the folks from Sunby (provides pumpkins for Grantoberfest) to talk about this. One young fellow was telling me all about this and he was very interesting.  
• How to test your own soil with a kit--Pam is offering to do this presentation 
• Need more ideas

Other Ideas from past years

• Fruit trees             
• maple syruping field trip in spring (Julie Chell might be someone to ask)
• composting            
• Fall garden cleanup            
• Essential Oils --Sarah Byers? (sugg. by Mary C.)               
• Butterflies, Bees, Bats            
• Bluebirds (bluebird house workshop?)               
• roses           
• Have Konnie Jerabek again to talk about invasives!            
• Butchart Gardens travelogue-Tim            

Election of Officers
We will be electing officers in November.

• President -- Uses the preset agenda sheet to plan the meeting (6 meetings). Makes sure the presenter will have what they need for the meeting. Makes any decisions for the club not needing a quorum vote of the membership. Presides at the meetings. Kris can not be president due to commitments to Day Lily Association
• Vice-president -- assists the president when needed and presides at the meeting in the absence of the president. Often the President and Vice-President share the responsibility of the president. Mary C can not be VP this year
• Secretary -- takes minute of the meeting using the agenda sheet provided by the president. Types up the minutes and emails them to the blog admin (Pam). Linnea? 
• Treasurer -- handles the bank account and check book and makes monthly reports on the clubs income and expenditures and the current balance and any issues that may arise. The treasurer has the thank-you notes and purchases the gas cards to give to presenter. Charlene?
• Blog Admin/notification (Pam) if anyone is interested in learning how to administrate the blog, Pam would be happy to teach you and work with you on the blog.

We need members to step up to take on these officer positions. You can ask for and will get a helping hand from other members and especially from past officers. To make this club work we need members to rotate into these positions.

Planning Committee for 2019
The new officers and the committee chairs (and any members who wish to participate) will make up the planning committee. The planning committee will meet in November to determine what presentations we will have based on the ideas offered by members. They will decide who to ask to be  presenters, and will make sure all the slots are filled for refreshments, committees, and hosting. Planning committee members will be assigned to do the follow up on these items.  

A big, big, big thank you to everyone who participated this year as officers, committee chairs and support; for providing refreshments, growing plants for the sale, offering their gardens and homes as host and for showing up at meetings!! We wouldn't be a club without you!!

Let's make year 31 the best ever!!