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Boca Raton Garden Club Newsletter
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February
President’s Message
Sadly, we must say farewell to Past President, Outstanding Leader and Friend to
many, Carol Brown. When she passed away in late December, she left a void that
will not be filled easily. Her family has requested in her obituary that donations
be made to the Boca Raton Garden Club Scholarship Fund. Also the Garden
Club wishes to place a bench in the garden in her name and so donations may be
made for that purchase up to Feb. 15. Donation checks should be made out to
Boca Raton Garden Club and specify if the donation is for a Bench or
Scholarship. The checks may be brought to the February meeting or mailed to
Anne Lise Gerke, 386 NW 42nd St, Boca Raton, 33431-4636
February 3
General Meeting
Everglades
Restoration /Water
Conservation
February 10
Floral Arts 9:30
Speaking of donations, at our January meeting we collected $158.00 to give to
FFGC toward coral reef restoration! Congratulations to us!
We are going to maintain an email list of non-members of the Garden Club who
wish to be notified of the availability of ornaments, the date of our Holiday House,
and the date of our Treasures and plant sale. If you have any friends or
neighbors who wish to be put on this list, please provide their name and email to
me at [email protected] Hopefully this will help save some paper
and will provide information to people who we might otherwise forget to notify.
Board Meeting
Congratulations and thank you to Sylvia Marks Newman and Susan Stizza for a
very successful luncheon and fashion show. The menu was absolutely delightful,
with extra touches that made it worthy of high praise. The clothing was stylish
and there was enough variety to suit every taste and the models were beautiful
(and familiar!). The decorations were creative and very attractive. I have to note
that many of the ladies appreciated all the extra effort put into using the clubs
china, cloth napkins and tablecloths. I know it takes time to clean these items but
it shows we have class at the Boca Raton Garden Club and care about saving our
environment by not using all the plastic.
February 28
A good time was had by all. Fantastic job to you and your many helpers .
Fifties Night
Coming soon – Fifties Night – An evening you won’t want to miss!
February 17
Horticulture Trip
February 24
Grace M. Johnson, President
February and March Speakers
Our February speaker is Mary Crider from the Arthur R. Marshall Foundation for the Everglades.
She will be discussing Everglades restoration and other conservation issues. Bonnie O’Leary will
be speaking at our March meeting about butterfly gardening and the Monarch butterfly crisis. She
will have butterfly plants and macramé hangers for sale.
Mary Kaub, 1st Vice President
Tea Table and Pedestal Arrangements
Our February arrangements will be done by Mary Kaub and the Janine Savitch. The March
designers are Janet Rackman (tea table) and Carletta Nonziato (pedestal). Thank you to all
designers that volunteer their time and talents to make these beautiful arrangements for our general
meetings.
Dorinda Bagwell and Mary Kaub, co-chairs
Unsolicitated Landscape Design Award
Deadline March 1st
The deadline is just around the corner for nominating those beautiful landscapes in and around
your neighborhood. Please take pictures, fill out the brief form (available on the District X
website) and send back to Mary Kaub at [email protected]. The two main criteria for this award
are that the landscape is easily seen from the street and has been planted for at least one year. If
you have and questions please feel free to contact me at 561-719-4168.
Mary Kaub, District X committee chairperson
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Whispering Pines Garden Club
This year there are 42 members, grades 3rd -5th in the Whispering Pines Garden Club. Thanks to
the support of the Boca Raton Garden Club under the guidance and leadership of Dellie Krebs,
Mary Kaub, and Rebecca Stallard the kids are having a great time learning about plants and how to
care for them.
At our first meeting we learned garden tools safety, weeded and mulched our Friendship and
Tolerance Garden, a 9-11 memorial site recognized by the U.S. Forestry Dept. Living Memorial
Project. Our next class was very busy. Members fixed up the raised garden by cleaning it out,
adding soil and sod. Then they planted vegetables and herbs that they brought. Finally they planted
caladium bulbs in pots. Garden club members learned what a bulb is and how to care for them. The
caladium was taken home and will be cared for by the students and then put on display at our end
of the year flower show.
During a fall meeting everyone had fun making a Halloween diorama out of shoe and cereal boxes.
They decorated their boxes with tissue paper pumpkins filled with birdseed (to feed the birds when
Halloween is over), a scarecrow, and other Halloween characters. Lastly, they added straw on the
bottom of the box. The students were very creative in their designs. In December the group made
reindeers and snowmen, along with Smokey Bear and Woodsy Owl pictures.
Gardener coordinator is Dellie Krebs, BRGC liaison is JoAnn Guise, WP Garden Club sponsor is
BJ Saul (also a gardenclub member) Thank you to the BRGC for your support of the Whispering
Pines Jr. Garden Club.
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Do You Know the Best Vitamin to be a good Garden Club Member?
B-1
Most of you already know that last year The Boca Raton Garden Club received the FFGC
AWARD OF EXCELLENCE FOR A CLUB. We did not accomplish this by just putting on
wonderful luncheons. This Award was judged on the following:
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Service to the community, Community Gardens, Garden Therapy projects.
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Educational projects: Conservation, Horticulture, Flower shows, and Youth GC
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Involvement in Federation projects: Attendance at District Meetings, Convention, Schools
and Short Courses
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Participation: Arbor Day, National Garden Week, And Applying for awards.
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Contributions to: Wekiva Youth Camp, Penny Pines, Coral Reef Restoration Project and
headquarters.
As you can see Member involvement is necessary to really be this Number one club. As a member
of District Ten & the Florida Federation of Garden Clubs, it is Important that we all get involved in
our community. We can be ambassadors here to lead others by our good examples. Let’s no
longer take the easy way. Encourage our friends and neighbors to stop using bottled water, get a
good filter, or at least recycle. Stop using Styrofoam, & plastic utensils. Take a stand on
environmental issues,
After signing an application to sponsor a new Garden Club Member your job does not stop there.
Be a Mentor, you can develop lifelong friendships. Introduce them to other members, make them
feel welcome. Call and Invite them to meetings. Explain the importance of being involved.
Being a member is not just attending meetings, to listen to the speaker, hearing about upcoming
events, waiting and wondering
“When do we get to go to the refreshment table”?
Did you know that Each member of This GC is expected to serve on one or more Committees
during the fiscal year. Thant does not mean attend. As you know it is usually the same members
that volunteer.
Maybe the others need to be asked to help. They may not really understand what is involved.
Many times as I chaired events I found it was just easier to do it myself. WRONG! This leads to
Burn-Out, this also lessens the opportunity to allow others to Share their ideas and Share in the
Fun. Yes! It can be Fun and not just Work when more are involved. Consider fewer fund raisers
and concentrate on making those the very Best they can be. Don’t take the easy way out.
We need to be more involved with our Youth. I know many of you already raised your kids but,
maybe there is still something you can do to help: Share your ideas with youth leaders, Help with
supplies, saving egg cartons, jars, magazines, pinecones. Invite our youth leaders to share the
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projects the kids have worked on, Show & Tell, at our meetings. Invite a child to a club meeting so
they can share their Wekiva Youth Camp experience, these are priceless.
A good district member supports other clubs events and activities. These club activities are posted
on our District Website. Consider carpooling. Boca to Vero Beach is only a 2 hour drive.
Remember, It’s your time, it is what you make of it, don’t waste it, take it all in, making memories
and friendship to last a life time.
“Gardens are for Sharing”
Emilie Palmieri
Below: More activities from Whispering Pines--Gardens are for sharing!
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Collect Stamps!
Floral Design
February 10, 9:30 AM
With the holidays over and with so many cards that
came we should have a lot of postage stamps for
donation. Remember to cut all stamps off the envelope
leaving 2" all around. Please bring them to our general
meetings so that we may send them in with our District
Director, Emilie Palmieri for State Board Meeting.
Such an easy way to recycle something that is so
worthwhile to helping the rehabilitation of our birds of
prey!
Thank you
A floral arrangement for Valentines Day!
Maximum of 20 participants
Reservations must be made and paid by February 3 at
the General Meeting. Cost will be approximately $10.
Carolyn Basler will buy the fresh materials.
Please bring a container with oasis and some greens to
cover the oasis.
Carolyn Basler will have samples at the general meeting
of fresh flowers, container and greens.
Nancy Richards
NEW YEAR FACIAL SPECIAL $40.00
Luxuriate in a one hour deep cleansing European Facial by one
of our members
For Appointment call Elissa Tobin
561-395-8732.
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BOCA RATON GARDEN CLUB SCHOLARSHIP for 2015-16
Please contact me by phone or email with questions
Susan Carroll Phone: 561-470-9035, [email protected]
SCHOLARSHIP in amount of $1,000.00.
Application due by March 12, 2015
Send application to Boca Raton Garden Club, 4281 NW 3rd Ave, Boca Raton, FL 33431
QUALIFICATIONS
The student must currently attend a college or university in Florida
and be enrolled in a program for an undergraduate or a Master's degree. Be a resident of Palm
Beach County, as confirmed by enclosing a copy of drivers license.
APPLICATION:
List Place and Date of Birth:
List your permanent address in Palm Beach County and/or your address on campus, if applicable:
Phone Number:
Graduation information:
Degree
Date
Major
Applicant must have already decided upon a major in the biological sciences, such as botany,
oceanography, ecology, biochemistry, landscape architecture, or other related fields.
With the application, an official transcript from the college must be enclosed.
List on a separate page your Major and, if applicable, your Minor, as well as details about courses
you plan to take and your areas of interest.
Include the exact address of the financial office of your college or university.
In addition, with your application, submit two letters of reference from professors, teachers, or
administrators (not a relative)
1 or 2 from current college/university: professor, instructor or dean
1 could be from a previous educational institution, such as a former teacher
Essay: please state in 75 words or less: My career plans are …
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In memory of Carol Brown
Every member had come to appreciate the incredible talent and
devotion Carol Brown had to Boca Raton Garden Club. Her
contributions to this section of the newsletter were enormous and can
never be replaced. In her honor, we are using her obituary as our
"spotlight" for this month.
Carol L. (Andrews) Brown, born in Shamokin, Oct. 24, 1960,
passed from this life to join the rest of the angels Friday, Dec. 26,
2014.Carol attended St. Stanislaus Grade School and Lourdes Regional High School. She then
went on to earn her degree in journalism at Pennsylvania State University, where she worked at
the school's paper, The Daily Collegian. Because of her excellent writing skills, she quickly
landed a job at The Home News, based in New Brunswick, N.J. She covered local news and had
many front page articles. Being ever ambitious, she also took a part-time job at AT&T. Due to
her outgoing personality, she was an immediate hit in customer service. Her superiors were so
impressed by her intelligence that they gave her one of the first IBM personal computers ever
produced. From there, she moved quickly through the ranks until she retired as head of sales
for Siemens, supporting her customer MCI. Retirement did not slow Carol down in any way.
She soon joined the Boca Raton Garden Club and was elected to chair its horticulture
committee. She wanted to learn as much about gardening as possible, but also to spread that
passion to others. She had an extensive garden and would always do "show and tells" about a
new plant she had cultivated. Some were very rare and fellow horticulturists — both amateurs
as well as professionals — commended her on her green thumb. Again, as Carol always did in
life, she quickly rose to the top as the president of the Boca Raton Garden Club. Under her
leadership, the 60-year-old club not only won the best club in Florida for the first time, but also
the best club in the Deep South region, which included six neighboring states. She also won the
FFGC Leadership Award for the state of Florida. Over the course of two flower shows, she won
nearly 100 ribbons for her specimen plants. Through her tireless efforts, she managed to
reinvigorate the club, adding many new members and completely remodeling the club house
itself, both inside and out.
Carol resided in Boca Raton, Fla. for the last 25 years with her beloved husband, Bruce Brown.
They were married in St. Michael Church in 1984 where she was given away by her late father,
Frank (Fritz) Andrews. She is also survived by her mother, Arlene Andrews, of Coal Township;
her brothers, Mark Andrews and his wife, Mary Beth, of Fairfax Station, Va., and Fritz
Andrews and his wife, Dottie, of Lorton, Va.; and her brother-in-law Paul Brown and his wife,
Katherine. She also had eight nieces and nephews that she loved dearly, Jennifer (Andrews)
Flynn, Alison (Andrews) Wolfe, Kathy Andrews (her goddaughter), Robyn Andrews (her
goddaughter), Elizabeth Brown, Margaret Brown, Stephen Andrews and Kevin Andrews.She
was a remarkably talented woman who was smart, engaging and the love of our lives.
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February Birthdays
Beth Frost 2/4
Patty Muom 2/4
Marsha McGovney 2/18
Violet Simon 2/20
Welcome New Member
1. Edy Ottesen
340 NW 42 St. Boca Raton, FL 33431
C# 732 768 6152
[email protected]
DOB: 05/19 Ck# 3232
Alternate address: seasonal
42 Pinckney Rd. Red Bank, NJ 07701
Please update your yearbook with our new members:
Free Raffle - Don’t forget each guest gets a free raffle
ticket and as the member who brings the guest – you get a
free raffle ticket too. Please sign-in at the membership
table at each meeting.
Marie Young
Catherine Collins 2/26
VP Membership
February 28
5:30 PM
At our clubhouse!
Tickets on sale at the Feb meeting
Price $30.00
Get your 50's outfits ready
Dinner and dancing
Questions? Call Teddy 561 367 9749 or Bonnie 305 491 7641
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Garden Therapy Committee
As you are trying to find room for all your
Christmas Gifts, if your closets and cabinets are
like mine, you may need to get rid of a few things,
items you no longer need or use. Please save these
Treasures for our annual
Boca Raton Garden Club
“Treasures & Plant Sale”
Saturday, March 21, 2015
9:00 AM – 1:00 PM
Your clean gently used tax deductible donations
can be placed on the stage after our March 3
general meeting.
Sign-up sheet will be sent around at the February
meeting, many hands makes lighter work for this
Fun Fundraiser.
Thank you,
The February Garden Therapy session will be on
Wednesday February 18, 2015 at the FAU Memory
and Wellness Center. Please arrive at 1:30 pm
to prepare for the 2 pm to 3 pm session.
Bonnie Newman, Chairman
Emilie Palmieri, Chairman &
Marie Mockler, Co Chairman
Commemorative Bricks
Add your personalized commemorative brick to the
walkway for only $30.00. The brick walkway on the west
side of the clubhouse is used to commemorate events, people
and achievements of members and their friends. The
application is available on our website:
www.bocaratongardenclub.org
Thank You
Marianne Goodgion
Chairman
Wekiva Youth Camp
Registration is open, and spaces are filling up quickly. If
you know of any youngsters who have a love of the
environment and might be interested in going have them
contact Barbara Stahlbaum for more details.
Wekiva Leadership Training will be held Friday,
February 20 through Sunday, February 23, 2015. Sign
up for a weekend of fun.
Please continue bringing Box Tops for Education and
Campbell Soup labels to our meeting.
These allow Wekiva Youth Camp to get much needed
equipment for the campers at no cost.
Please continue bringing Box Tops for Education to
our meetings. These allow Wekiva Youth Camp to get
much needed equipment for the campers at no cost. We
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are also collecting cloth bags for students to use.
Upcoming Events
Antique and Vintage Show and Sale
Saturday and Sunday, Feb. 21 and 22, 2015, 10-4
Bougainvillea Circle,Garden Club center
2526 17th Ave. Vero Beach
Admission $2.00
Plants, white elephant tables and vendors
Boynton Beach Garden Club, 1010 S. Fed. Highway, Boynton Beach
Potluck Luncheon and Auction, (please bring side dish or salad)
Tuesday, Feb. 24, 2015
Lunch, Auction and Raffle
RSVP by Feb. 16. To Jane Gavlick 561-499-6277
Philadelphia Flower Show to be held Feb. 28-Mar.8, 2015
For more information contact Marlyn Lucov, Director of Programs
1-215-790-9901 x11 or 1-800-714-3287 [email protected]
The fourth landscape design class offered by NGC will be held march 17 and 18th in Miramar Fl.
Flower Show School, Course ll
March 31-April 2, 2015
http:///districtx.org/ for registration form
Annual Convention – FFGC, Embassy Suites, 661 NW 53rd St., BOCA RATON
April 17-19, 2015
For Registration: Barbara Horan, 2738 Kelly Brooke Lane, Deerfield Beach, 33442 or
[email protected]
Antique and Vintage show and Sale
Saturday and Sunday, Feb. 21 and 22, 2015, 10-4
Bougainvillea Circle, Garden Club center
2526 17th Ave. Vero Beach
Admission $2.00
Plants, white elephant tables and vendors
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February Calendar
Sunday
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
Saturday
1
2
3
General
meeting at
clubhouse
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5
6
Dirt Gardeners
7
8
9
Dirt
Gardeners
10
Floral Arts
Valentines
Day
Arrangement
11
12
13
14
16
Dirt
Gardeners
17
Horticulture
Field Trip:
Fairchild
Tropical
Gardens
18
Garden
Therapy
1:30
Judges
Council
19
Newsletter
deadline
j.Texley@att.
net
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Board
Meeting
25
26
15
22
23
Dirt
Gardeners
Dirt Gardeners
20
21
Dirt Gardeners
Wekiva
Leadership
Training
27
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Dirt Gardeners
Fifties Night!
Boca Raton
Garden Club
4281 3rd Ave
Boca Raton, Fl 33431
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Boca Raton Garden Club
4281 NW 3rd Ave
Boca Raton, FL 33431
To:
Floral design class
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