Date: Wednesday, August 20

Time: 1:00 pm meeting, with garden tour to follow

Place: Bel-Wood Nursing Home, 6701 W. Plank Rd., Bellevue

Directions: 474 to Farmington Rd. exit. At stop sign, turn left then a right on

Plank Rd. Bel-Wood will soon be on your right.

Topic: After a short business meeting inside, we will tour the gardens so wear

appropriate shoes and sun protection.

(Note: Have a topic of MG interest or a guest speaker you would like to have at any our

meetings? Please tell our President, Ray Ellington or V. Pres. Bob Coppernoll.)

On penalty of being accused of nagging, I want to again address our function and

commitments as Master Gardeners. Our primary reason for volunteering to be Master

Gardeners is to aid the greater community understand the benefits of gardening and to

provide guidance to those in the community that wish to improve their knowledge of

plants and the methods to successfully grow those plants. Corollary benefits are the

enjoyable gardens that we help grow as we meet those objectives. This year we have

had difficulties in securing commitment by many MG's to help at the ICC Demonstration

Garden. We voted to support the ICC Demonstration Garden this year, so I feel that

it will be exceedingly embarrassing for us to fail to support our commitment. I am sure

that there are those among you that need more hours this year and could greatly

contribute to the ICC Demonstration Garden. Please give Stan and Pat a hand to whip

the ICC Demonstration Garden into shape for the Annual Garden Day Sponsored by

ICC. Thanks to all of you for your help and support of the projects we are undertaking.

- Ray Ellington, Master Gardener