DECEMBER 2021 GARDENETTE NEWSLETTER
Gardenettes are members of District VI, Louisiana Garden Club Federation Inc., Deep South Garden Clubs Inc., National Garden Clubs Inc.
MARK YOUR CALENDAR:
**November 30 Tues. 9:00 a.m. N. Oaks Hosp. Tree Decoration
Lunch, Garden of the Month and Genesis presentations (whew!)
**December 8 Wed. 11:30 a.m. Christmas Tea, Kathy Bruce’s House –
RSVP to Kathy whether you are coming or not
**January 21 Arbor Day Tree Planting TBA
**November 30 Tues. 9:00 a.m. N. Oaks Hosp. Tree Decoration
Lunch, Garden of the Month and Genesis presentations (whew!)
**December 8 Wed. 11:30 a.m. Christmas Tea, Kathy Bruce’s House –
RSVP to Kathy whether you are coming or not
**January 21 Arbor Day Tree Planting TBA
MEETING: Kathy Bruce has graciously invited us to her Christmas display in her home in Loranger December 8 at 11:30 a.m. CARAVAN will be leaving Community Center promptly at 11:00 a.m. if you need a ride or want to follow us. Co-hostesses for the event are Margaret Bailey and Carol McGough who will be handling the gift exchange stealing event and the arrangements for the shut-ins. All members including the co-hostesses are asked to bring a favorite dish to share, a plant or arrangement for a shut-in, and an optional $20 gift to exchange. If you do not want to exchange a gift, that is your choice. Of course, we ask you to help clean up afterward even if it is just picking up your own gift wrap and utensils.
MERRY CHRISTMAS TREES! Carol McGough set up November 30 as decorating day at North Oaks hospital for the two trees – the one in the main lobby and the one in the emergency room lobby – that we do each year. Hope you can attend; this is a festive start to the yuletide holiday. We can get coffee somewhere afterward or lunch.
GARDEN OF THE MONTH: Presentation will follow the Christmas Tree decorating. Join us for lunch and this presentation, followed by Genesis presentation. Marilyn Wright selected Ed and Norma Huber, 290 S. Ninth Street as recipients of this honor. The program was halted in September and October due to our hurricane event. Genesis will be presented to Harry McKneely Funeral Home.
ARBOR DAY: Friday January 21 is the official day to celebrate Arbor Day. Mayor Bob Zabbia requested a live oak tree. Chairman Susan Pizani will notify everyone closer to the date as to the time and location.
COMPELLING PROGRAM: Courtney Murphy of the Louisiana United Methodist Children and Family Services spoke on the new facility in Loranger which will be an improvement over the current four-acre site in St. Tammany. The new place has 126 acres, 62 of which are recreational playgrounds for the seven- to eleven-year-old boys who have undergone physical and emotional abuse. It was an enlightening insight into a problem that should not happen. We all wish the program well.
THANKS! To our November hostesses Marilyn Wright, Ellen Pusey and Margaret Hardin who provided door prizes and a good restaurant meal. We appreciate all they did.
FERNS: Did you know there were so many ferns!? Mary Elliot McCormick brought a large selection. She even named names! Her wholesale nursery is on S. Range Road across from the apartments just past Elmer’s. If you wanted to expand your collection, the commercial nursery she mentioned having such nice mail order plants was plantdelights.com
HISTORIC NOTE: After joining the Louisiana Garden Club Federation in 1943, we donated yearly to the scholarship fund to be used by some worthy student studying horticulture and floriculture at LSU. This hasbeen continued through the years. The club was very pleased to be named a blue-ribbon club a number of times by the Federation whose standard are very high.
DON’T FORGET: Save your Coupon’s For Education – Community Coffee coupons too! Give them to Betty Jordan. In the spring we will take them to an elementary school so they can cash them in.
SAD NEWS: Long time member Tonya Sweeney Ferguson lost her mother Pat Sweeney November 10. Pat was also a member of the Gardenettes. Both were excellent chairmen and members for many years. Please remember their family in prayer.
DONATIONS: We need to discuss a donation and an amount at the next meeting. We have a member whose daughter was wiped out by the storm whom we might consider helping. Then there is the food bank. There are lots of ways to help our community.
BRING YOUR CHANGE! Jamie LeBlanc will be passing envelopes for Quarters for Waters and for Penny Pines. Put your change in the bag of your choice. Quarters for Waters is to purchase equipment to make clean drinking water to places in Latin American whose water systems were destroyed in natural disasters. Penny Pines is to help reforest Kisatchie our only Louisiana National Forest. When we get $68 we send it to buy tree seedlings to be planted there.
NEW MEMBER: Former Garden of the Month winner selected by Kathy Bruce and Janice Hickey many years ago, has joined our group. We welcome Sherry Klein. Here is her information, please enter it in your yearbooks: New member - Sherry Klein
Birthday 10/26
BOSOM BUDDIES: Dottie Boudreaux will be asking for help after the holidays. She will need seamstresses, ironers and material cutters with their equipment. We can work at the Strawberry Board Building as usual.
NEVER FORGET GARDEN: The donation we sent to the Veteran’s rose garden at the State Capitol in Baton Rouge was well spent. The dedication was November 11 with an extensive ceremony including the governor, the American Rose Society and Louisiana Garden Club representatives. Through our donation, we were a small part of this worthy event. Keynote speech given by Governor John Bel Edwards, remarks by LDVA Secretary Joey Strickland, COL (USA Retired) and attended by LDVA staff.
MERRY CHRISTMAS TREES! Carol McGough set up November 30 as decorating day at North Oaks hospital for the two trees – the one in the main lobby and the one in the emergency room lobby – that we do each year. Hope you can attend; this is a festive start to the yuletide holiday. We can get coffee somewhere afterward or lunch.
GARDEN OF THE MONTH: Presentation will follow the Christmas Tree decorating. Join us for lunch and this presentation, followed by Genesis presentation. Marilyn Wright selected Ed and Norma Huber, 290 S. Ninth Street as recipients of this honor. The program was halted in September and October due to our hurricane event. Genesis will be presented to Harry McKneely Funeral Home.
ARBOR DAY: Friday January 21 is the official day to celebrate Arbor Day. Mayor Bob Zabbia requested a live oak tree. Chairman Susan Pizani will notify everyone closer to the date as to the time and location.
COMPELLING PROGRAM: Courtney Murphy of the Louisiana United Methodist Children and Family Services spoke on the new facility in Loranger which will be an improvement over the current four-acre site in St. Tammany. The new place has 126 acres, 62 of which are recreational playgrounds for the seven- to eleven-year-old boys who have undergone physical and emotional abuse. It was an enlightening insight into a problem that should not happen. We all wish the program well.
THANKS! To our November hostesses Marilyn Wright, Ellen Pusey and Margaret Hardin who provided door prizes and a good restaurant meal. We appreciate all they did.
FERNS: Did you know there were so many ferns!? Mary Elliot McCormick brought a large selection. She even named names! Her wholesale nursery is on S. Range Road across from the apartments just past Elmer’s. If you wanted to expand your collection, the commercial nursery she mentioned having such nice mail order plants was plantdelights.com
HISTORIC NOTE: After joining the Louisiana Garden Club Federation in 1943, we donated yearly to the scholarship fund to be used by some worthy student studying horticulture and floriculture at LSU. This hasbeen continued through the years. The club was very pleased to be named a blue-ribbon club a number of times by the Federation whose standard are very high.
DON’T FORGET: Save your Coupon’s For Education – Community Coffee coupons too! Give them to Betty Jordan. In the spring we will take them to an elementary school so they can cash them in.
SAD NEWS: Long time member Tonya Sweeney Ferguson lost her mother Pat Sweeney November 10. Pat was also a member of the Gardenettes. Both were excellent chairmen and members for many years. Please remember their family in prayer.
DONATIONS: We need to discuss a donation and an amount at the next meeting. We have a member whose daughter was wiped out by the storm whom we might consider helping. Then there is the food bank. There are lots of ways to help our community.
BRING YOUR CHANGE! Jamie LeBlanc will be passing envelopes for Quarters for Waters and for Penny Pines. Put your change in the bag of your choice. Quarters for Waters is to purchase equipment to make clean drinking water to places in Latin American whose water systems were destroyed in natural disasters. Penny Pines is to help reforest Kisatchie our only Louisiana National Forest. When we get $68 we send it to buy tree seedlings to be planted there.
NEW MEMBER: Former Garden of the Month winner selected by Kathy Bruce and Janice Hickey many years ago, has joined our group. We welcome Sherry Klein. Here is her information, please enter it in your yearbooks: New member - Sherry Klein
Birthday 10/26
BOSOM BUDDIES: Dottie Boudreaux will be asking for help after the holidays. She will need seamstresses, ironers and material cutters with their equipment. We can work at the Strawberry Board Building as usual.
NEVER FORGET GARDEN: The donation we sent to the Veteran’s rose garden at the State Capitol in Baton Rouge was well spent. The dedication was November 11 with an extensive ceremony including the governor, the American Rose Society and Louisiana Garden Club representatives. Through our donation, we were a small part of this worthy event. Keynote speech given by Governor John Bel Edwards, remarks by LDVA Secretary Joey Strickland, COL (USA Retired) and attended by LDVA staff.
SAVE THE DATE: The LGCF State Convention with lots of frills and thrills is scheduled April 26-27, 2022 at the Crown Plaza in Baton Rouge. It starts with a very interesting tour and goes from there. This is sponsored by our District, so we will be asked to help in some way. The Deep South Convention is coming to the Hilton Airport Inn in Kenner March 8-10, 2023 – it’s Louisiana’s turn to host! Mark your calendars and consider attending.
OPEN HOUSE: Mizell’s Camellia Nursery sent this invitation:
OPEN HOUSE: Mizell’s Camellia Nursery sent this invitation: