(Photo of Debbie Quillin, who raised approximately 600 $ for "Petals for Patriots" at the Concert in the Park)
(Photo from our delightful trip to the Odo Gardens, Elfin Forest)Dear Garden Aficionados and Mission Hills Garden Club Members,
Please find our current events below. Also, if you have not renewed your membership yet, please renew now. Thank you, if you have renewed already (Barbara Strona for Membership).
Wednesdy, August 25, 6 – 8 p.m.
Garden Club Meeting: Speaker Jim Mumford of Green Scaped Buildings. “Living Walls and Roofs – Purposes and Creation”Jim Mumford is a horticulturist, Certified Landscape Professional, and an accredited Green Roof Professional. Jim found early on that by combining rain water harvesting with home grown food in a closed –circuit ecosystem on walls and roofs would work quite well in urban environments. He has quickly become the go to guy for such systems and serves clients not only locally but nationally (Meredith French for Programs).
Coffee in the Garden dates (Sandra Scherf for Coffee in the Garden)
Saturday, August 28, 10 a. m. – noon
Coffee in the Garden at 3574 7th Ave
Sunday, September 26, 4 - 6 p.m.
Wine in the Garden at 4251 Arguello Street
Saturday, October 30, 10 a. m. - noon
Coffee in the Garden at 1506 Plumosa Way
Saturday, November 20 10 a. m. - noon
Coffee in the Garden at 1753 W. Montecito Way
Did you know this about the GC Club?
The Projects Committee meeting supports a garden at Grant Elementary. Dave Martocchio, a teacher at Grant has been working for eight years on a project in the canyon behind the school. The link to their website is: http://www.roomk3.org/. Click on the heading for Canyon Project to get the details. Volunteers meet the first Saturday of each month at 9:00 to help with this work if anybody is interested (Linda Lawley for Projects)
The MHGC Newsletter Summer 2010 is now available on the website in a compressed PDF file that will download quickly. Go to http://www.missionhillsgardenclub.org/newsletters.php.
Do you have a gardening tidbit or a GC event report/story to share with us? Please contribute to our Newsletter. Send your text to Nancy: dimsdale@cox.net (Nancy Dimsdale for Newsletter).
NEW! Check out our handy Calendar on our Website: http://www.missionhillsgardenclub.org/ . You find all of our events and other garden or neighborhood related events on it (Scott Borden for e-Communications).
Other Events:
TONIGHT: National Night Out
Please join us in Neighbor Watch’s National Night Out, Tuesday, August 3rd. Turn on your front porch lights, gather on your porches after sunset, come for a flash-light walk through our beautiful Mission Hills neighborhood en masse (From Pam Amundson, Mission Hills Neighborhood Watch)
http://www.natw.org/nno/toolkit/105487-NNO_OrgPoster.pdf
It's America's Night Out Against Crime!
The "27th Annual National Night Out" (NNO), a unique crime/drug prevention event sponsored by the National Association of Town Watch (NATW), has been scheduled for Tuesday, August 3, 2010. Last year's National Night Out campaign involved citizens, law enforcement agencies, civic groups, businesses, neighborhood organizations and local officials from over 15,000 communities from all 50 states, U.S. territories, Canadian cities and military bases worldwide. In all, over 36 million people participated in National Night Out 2009.
NATIONAL NIGHT OUT is designed to:
Heighten crime and drug prevention awareness;
Generate support for, and participation in, local anticrime programs;
Strengthen neighborhood spirit and police-community partnerships; and
Send a message to criminals letting them know that neighborhoods are organized and fighting back.
Fridays, 3 to 7 p.m.
TONIGHT: National Night Out
Please join us in Neighbor Watch’s National Night Out, Tuesday, August 3rd. Turn on your front porch lights, gather on your porches after sunset, come for a flash-light walk through our beautiful Mission Hills neighborhood en masse (From Pam Amundson, Mission Hills Neighborhood Watch)
http://www.natw.org/nno/toolkit/105487-NNO_OrgPoster.pdf
It's America's Night Out Against Crime!
The "27th Annual National Night Out" (NNO), a unique crime/drug prevention event sponsored by the National Association of Town Watch (NATW), has been scheduled for Tuesday, August 3, 2010. Last year's National Night Out campaign involved citizens, law enforcement agencies, civic groups, businesses, neighborhood organizations and local officials from over 15,000 communities from all 50 states, U.S. territories, Canadian cities and military bases worldwide. In all, over 36 million people participated in National Night Out 2009.
NATIONAL NIGHT OUT is designed to:
Heighten crime and drug prevention awareness;
Generate support for, and participation in, local anticrime programs;
Strengthen neighborhood spirit and police-community partnerships; and
Send a message to criminals letting them know that neighborhoods are organized and fighting back.
Fridays, 3 to 7 p.m.
Support our local certified Farmers Market in Mission Hills. It is every Friday from 3 – 7 p.m. on Falcon Street, between Washington and Fort Stockton.
Thursday, September 2, 6:30 p.m., Health Services Complex, 3851 Rosecrans Street. The Social Life of Chickens. A Visual Lecture & Book Signing with Karen Davis. $10.00 donation. www.upc-online.org/karenbio.htm
Internet Sources:
San Diego Horticultural Society Newsletter signup, send an e-mail to soddo@earthlink.net
Sign up for your daily garden news and get your “dirt du jour” at http://www.dirtcouture.com/
Thursday, September 2, 6:30 p.m., Health Services Complex, 3851 Rosecrans Street. The Social Life of Chickens. A Visual Lecture & Book Signing with Karen Davis. $10.00 donation. www.upc-online.org/karenbio.htm
Internet Sources:
San Diego Horticultural Society Newsletter signup, send an e-mail to soddo@earthlink.net
Sign up for your daily garden news and get your “dirt du jour” at http://www.dirtcouture.com/
Have these and more detailed infos always handy:
Find us on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/ find “Mission Hills Garden Club”)
We always love to hear from you and see you at our events or come and volunteer! Please send me an e-mail if you have something for this bi-weekly e-news update: sabine.starr@yahoo.com.
Happy Gardening,
Sabine Starr
Communications Chair
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