Minutes
Officers & Committees

The August meeting of the Sault Area Garden Club was a picnic held at
Chris Roll's home. Twenty-five members were present.

The business meeting followed the picnic and social time. The minutes of the May, June and July meeting were read with two corrections. No
official treasurer's report was available but Joan estimated the amount in
the treasury at about $800.00.

President Bev Youngs read two thank you notes, one from Patti Paquette's sister who visited with us on the July garden tours and the other from Leslie Askwith. Patti‚s sister commended the group for all the great work we do and enclosed a check for $25.00 to go towards our civic projects. Leslie thanked the garden club for helping with the FOCAS Garden Tours.

Discussion was held on the scholarship and it was decided that we would continue doing what we did last year, offering it to a high school student and if no qualified applications were received, then we would go with a college student.

A motion was made by Fran Preuss and seconded by Carol Askwith that we increase our donation to the St. James Church from $100.00 to $l50.00. The motion carried.

A motion was made by Connie Mattson and seconded by Linda Sumner that we allocate $200.00 for the purchase of books, and videos for references for club members. Donations of material would also be appreciated. Chris Roll, Susan Harries and Bonnie Skoryanc volunteered to coordinate this library project.

President Bev Youngs reminded club members that the September meeting will be the seed exchange, annual dues of $20.00 will be due in September, the Master Gardner Program will start and we will make troughs again on 9-10-05 at 1:00 P.M. at her home.

Fran Pruess, representing the nominating committee submitted the slate of officers for the 2005-2006 year and they are as follows:

President: Kate Marshall - Bev Youngs
Vice-presidents: Carol Askwith - Cheryl Shaul
Programs/Field Trips
Treasurer: Joan Clark
Secretaries: Patti Paquette, Nancy Fenlon, Pat
Artley
Corresponding Secretary: Paula Jarosz
Refreshments: Chris Roll
Raffle: Jeannie Cooper, Seldon Collins,
Chris Roll, Margo Sabourin
Membership: Connie Mattson
Civic:
    Johnston House: Susan Harries
    Soo Locks: Carol Askwith
Club Booklet: Fran Preuss, Andree Watson, Linda
Beaumont
Monthly Garden Tips: Pat Artley
Monthly Show & Tell: Dorothy Dansdill
Phone Tree: Diane McDonald, Seldon Collins
Photography/Scrapbook: Deb Pietrangelo
Publicity: Bonnie Payment
Website: Bonnie Skoryanc

Dorothy Dansdill made a motion that we accept the slate of officers as
presented. Carol Askwith seconded the motion. Motion was carried.

A list was passed around for suggestions for programs for the
2005/2006-year. A sign-up sheet for the raffles was also passed around.

Carol Askwith reported that the flowers at the Soo Locks Park are looking great and she thanked everyone who has worked on them. She hopes to compile the total number of volunteer hours worked by members this summer and get an article in the local newspaper. The automated sprinklers are now working in the gardens in the front and they run 45 minutes each evening.

Linda Carrick reported that the sesquicentennial committee would be
planting a time capsule in one area of the locks garden. She will get
more information so we will know if some plants have to be moved.

Bonnie Skoryanc suggested that individuals still wanting shirts with club
logo could just stop in and order them. We may still have a group order
for sweatshirts.

Sheryl Shaul asked if we could try having the plant exchange in June
instead of May and maybe we would have a better selection of plants. A
lot of the plants in the cool north are not up in May. It was agreed that
we could do this next year.

Connie Mattson , membership chairman, suggested that we send out letters to former members inviting them to come back to the club. Everyone thought this was a good idea.

With no further business, the meeting adjourned at 8:35 p.m.

Pat Artley
Secretary