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The President's Message
Dear Members and Friends:
I am looking forward to working with each of you in 2008. I will
be asking a Garden Club each month to participate in our meetings.
We want to know about your club, its history and its contribution
to your community. I am going to focus my agenda on NURTURING THE
EARTH, and I challenge you to embrace your environment through efforts
to this cause.
The programs for the coming year are exciting and varied, and
I hope that each member will enjoy them and become more involved
in our activities. On May 5 we will be celebrating Cinco de Mayo
at the 'Quarry' in East Canton. This is our first fund raiser of
2008. We will take a bus trip in June to Falling Waters in Pennsylvania.
Through our 8 scheduled Pergola Parties for Children, we can help
connect children to nature through gardening. Our annual Tour of
Gardens and Patron Party will be held in July. In September, a Style
Show will be held at Shady Hollow Country Club. We will have a Holiday-themed
Flower Show in October; and in November, we will host Holly Pine
Lane, our gift to the Community. We continue to make flower arrangements
for Meals on Wheels each month and with the patients at Heartland
Behavioral Center. Both are activities to nurture shutins and help
those less fortunate. Our Garden Center gardens will be planted
in May, and we need lots of helping hands to plant and beautify
our gardens.
These are but a few of the ways in which we can NURTURE THE EARTH.
Please meet my challenge.
In closing and to begin this 'nurturing' process, please take the
seeds of peace, the seeds of happiness, of joy and the seeds of
love-and MAKE THESE SEEDS GROW!!
Sincerely,
Bonnie L. Popa
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