Wednesday, November 19

Time: 1:00pm Meeting

Place: Extension Office

Topic: This will be mainly a business meeting, with election of officers (see slate

below) and talking about inservice opportunities that we might develop for this next

year. Guest speaker? Maybe not this month, unless you want to step in???

Thanks to all for the food for our "pot luck" at the evening October meeting. We

enjoyed the good food as well as the comaradery with members and their guests. A

special thanks to Pat Knobloch and Erma Wieland for hosting and to Melanie Martin for

her presentation on "Gourds 101" and the many ways that they can be turned into useful

and decorative items. Now that our plants are going dormant and the leaves are

comming down, soon to be collected for composting, we can devote time to creative

indoor projects, like Melanie's gourds, or sit down with all of those catalogs and think of

what and where we will plant next Spring.

- Ray Ellington, President

Hurray!! We have a 2009 slate of Peoria MG officers to present.We will be voting for

our new officers at our Nov. meeting. The nominating committee present the following

slate for your approval:

Board Positions:

President - Margie Karl

Vice President - Norm Meyn

Recording Secretary - Rosemary Weber

Corresponding Secretary - Phyllis Baylor

Volunteer Coordinator - Kathy Hasselberg / Dixie Krisher, Co-Chair

Other non-board positions:

Project Coordinator - Mary Whittaker / Co-Chair to be announced

Speakers Bureau - Terry Flaherty / Co-Chair to be announced

Membership - Bonnie Hunt / Patsy Spitz

ICC Demo Garden for Peoria County - Phil Adams

For a fee of $5 a year, you can have this newsletter mailed to you.

Please contact Julann at the Peoria County Extension office to

sign up.

To Our Readers: The Peoria Extension is looking for stories on

how our Master Gardener projects have influenced or helped you

with your gardening projects. If you have a story, please send it to

the Peoria Extension Office. We are trying to "Help Others Learn to

Grow". Let us know if we are doing our job.

Have something to contribute to this newsletter? Gardening

victory (or defeat), funny story or whatever? Send your contributions

and/or suggestions anytime to me (contact info on page 1).

- Melanie Martin, Editor