Gardening on the Rocks January 2020 Our gardens sleep, under a blanket of snow. - photo by Harriet Kideckel Editor: Hermina Hubert [email protected](705) 692-1442 Membership: Linda Hugli [email protected](705) 693-2476 Website: www.SudburyHorticulturalSociety.ca Founded in 1911. Dedicated to the beautification of the Greater Sudbury Region and the preservation of our environment.
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Gardening on the Rocks
January 2020
Our gardens sleep, under a blanket of snow. - photo by Harriet Kideckel
Guest Speaker: Quentin Smith – “Regreening Projects at Vale” Installation of officers: Silvana Espinosa
Presentation of Awards
Refreshments starting at 1:15 pm
White Elephant Finds * Share-the-Wealth * Door prizes
INCOME
Memberships - New & Renewals $2,292.00
OMAFRA Grant $1,500.00
Donations - Personal $974.10
Admissions - To Meetings & Shows $189.20
Advertising - Newsletters & Yearbook $320.00
Gardening Festival - Set aside for 2020 $1,969.31
Donations Sudbury Master Gardeners $833.00
Donations -Refreshments $189.90
Sales
- Draws $289.00
- Judging Standards Book -$50.00
- Open Garden Weekend $2,065.37
- Perennial Sales $833.00
- Plants Sold at Meetings $428.70
- White Elephant Table $337.85
EXPENDITURES
Carried Over - 2018 - Uncashed Cheques $1,224.60
Administration - Financial Review $80.00
- Honoraria $800.00
- Supplies $681.98
- Internet $365.78
-Bank Charges $54.32
Civic Improvements - Books for Library $269.50
- Seedy Saturday $1,930.19
- John Street Park $1,198.23
- Community Donations $562.98
- Schoolyard Project - 2019 $600.00
Competitions - Awards $331.25
- Judges $100.00
- Supplies $197.69
Meetings - Guest Speakers $325.00
- Refreshments $694.98
Newsletters - Postage $376.52
- Printing $350.37
- Supplies
Parkside - Rental $800.00
OHA - Liability Insurance - 2019 $121.16
- D&O Insurance - 2019 $100.00
- Membership - 2019 $609.00
OHA - District 13 - Penny Table Gift for AGM $22.59
- Travel to Meetings
- Membership $203.00
Handbook - Printing $164.99
Sudbury Horticultural Society Financial Statement
November 01, 2018 to October 31, 2019
RESERVE SHS Contingency Fund $3,287.16
ACCOUNT BALANCE – October 31, 2019 = $10,187.10
RESTRICTED FUNDS
Floral Design - $1,450.00 Sudbury Gardening Festival - $1,969.31
PRESIDENT’S REPORT – 2019
In January 2019, the Sudbury Horticultural Society met for the first time at our new venue, The Parkside Older Adult Centre. Our Assistant District Director, Donna Butson, was present to officially install our new Board of Directors and Officers.
Also, at that meeting, the winning participants of the three 2018 horticultural shows were presented with
their awards. A new Volunteer of the Year Award, donated in memory of Frank Vettoretti, was presented to
Nadia Snajdr. Unfortunately, an ice storm caused the cancellation of our February meeting. But seven General Meetings were held offering us a wonderful variety of speakers and topics, including Erin Rowe (Container Farming), Jennifer Davidson (Seasonal Gardening Tips), Ron Lewis (Hardy Fruit Trees), Clark Michlowski (Vegetable Gardening and Health), Grant Vipond (Wild Preserves), and Linda Hugli (Gardening Resources on the Web). Fortunately, our February speaker, garden designer Karen Shlemkevich, was able to make an appearance May
25th at our Gardening Festival, along with Jeff Sonnenburg (Vermicomposting) and Jessica Sinka (Air Plants).
The all-day festival was a huge success, as was the joint SHS/Master Gardeners Plant Sale. Another group of generous gardeners were the hosts of the Open Garden Weekend (July 13-14). This marvelous annual event is one of our major fundraisers thanks to a dedicated group of volunteers. In September, you might have worked alongside those same volunteers as they worked with the student
winners of the Ugliest Schoolyard Contest to prepare and plant new gardens at École St-Denis and Lansdowne
Public School. The schools were also given Liberation 75 tulips donated by SHS members.
The Society also donated trees to the Food Forest and to Morel Park in Minnow Lake, donated money to Seniors Helping Seniors, and donated books to the Water Festival, the Sudbury Public Library and the Little Library in John Street Park. Our gardens at the corner of John and Paris Streets, at the foot of the Bridge of Nations, required a real investment of volunteer hours from May to September, but rewarded us with an oasis of peace and beauty… and many compliments. Well-deserved compliments also appeared often on our Facebook page, a great source of information about gardens and our Society. Information could also be found on our Website, in our Newsletter, and at tables set up at Seedy Saturday, Azilda Greenhouses, and the Parkside Senior Information Fair. A lucky group also took home valuable information and floral arrangements from the December 7th Floral Design Workshop. Over the course of the year, we have welcomed a number of new members who are already joining the many volunteers who make all of these activities possible. From behind-the-scenes organizing or potting up plants to greeting us with smiles, prize tickets and tasty snacks, volunteers have given us a great year. And they’re not done yet!