gardener’s gazette · 2015-10-10 · gardener’s gazette newsletter for the nordonia hills...

Gardener’s Gazette

Newsletter for the Nordonia Hills Garden Club Since 2000, and still growing… “We dig life!”

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A Message From Our President Bob Park [email protected]

We have just completed another successful plant sale. Once again we have added $2000.00 to

our treasury after expenses. That is the third year in a row we have made a substantial profit.

More than 50 participated this year. Thanks to all of you that helped. The club will enlarge our

financial support to the community and our club members. At the June 17th meeting members

present will hear short presentations on 4 programs the $$committee has chosen to recommend

to the membership. After each discussion a vote will be taken on that item. Please plan to attend

and vote for the community and membership programs you want the club to support financially.

1.) Food Bank

2.) School Projects

3.) Audio/Visual equipment

4.) NHGC pins, shirts, mugs, aprons, etc.

These programs are in addition to the Scholarship award and the recent approval of a donation to

the Conservancy for Cuyahoga Valley National Park.

A new budget/finance committee has been established, chaired by Jan Filmeck. This committee

will first audit club transactions over the last 12 months and then review and finalize a budget for

the next club year. June 1st is the starting date for the club year budget so that we have the net

income available from the annual May plant sale and also the membership renewals will be

complete. Please review the minutes from the last board/business meeting in this letter for more

information on this topic and other important items. Carmen and I look forward to seeing you at

our summer events!

mailto:[email protected]



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Another successful NHGC Plant Sale

Letter to Mayor Kuchta from Bob Park

Good Morning Don!!

I am sorting pictures today and will send you some other shots later. You look really good with your tomato plant!! We submit our follow-up PR to the paper and several others who use our info. (including your e-messenger). The sale was a big success. Thanks to you and your staff for their help. I have met with your new landscaper, Vic Caldarelli, and will be ready to come dig plants that have to be moved as the restoration project gets further along. John Jhnottavange was a huge help to us as he set the tables up for us and deserves a special thank you. As always, the use of the fire station is an important part of the success of our annual plant sale. Once again we were sold out before the announced closing time. Thank you, again,

Mayor Kuchta and Lilian Coluccio



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Jean Hovan, 1st VP [email protected]

Brentwood Rehab Center has contacted our Garden Club and asked for whatever assistance we

can give them with their new Outdoor Garden Club. Bob and I have contacted the Activities

Director and have assessed their needs. We will be speaking to the Board and Membership in

regards to how much we can be of help to them.

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LEAH VASARHELYI WINS NHGC SCHOLARSHIP AWARD

The winner of the NHGC scholarship award will attend Loyola

University in Chicago, majoring in environmental policy and

international affairs. Our club is pleased to award Leah with a

$1000.00 award to help further her well chosen career.




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Dottie Krieger, 2nd Vice President [email protected]

Garden Club Speaker Scheduled for June 17th

NHGC has an interesting program planned for Wednesday June 17th at 6:30 p.m.at Faith

Fellowship Church. Stanley Stine will be speaking to the group. His topic is “Birds,

Pollinators and Children”. Stine has been a field botanist since the early 1980s, working

on projects for the Division of Natural Areas and Preserves (ODNR), Five Rivers Metro

Parks, plus the Cleveland Museum of Natural History. At present he is the City of

Twinsburg Naturalist. An accomplished writer and photographer, he continues using

these tools to educate the public in northeast Ohio, regarding current environmental

concerns. This meeting is open to the public. Those interested in joining NHGC are

welcome to visit the club website at www.nordoniahillsgardenclub.com.

Upcoming events:

Our Blueberry Dinner at the Greenfield Berry Farm is on Wednesday July 8th at 6:00pm.

The farm is located on Major Rd. in Peninsula. The cost is $30.00 for members, $35.00

for non-members. Full Payment due no later than June 17th. This is a wonderful way to

support The Cuyahoga Valley Conservancy. We will not have a general meeting in July.

We are planning an outing on August 1st. to Stan Hywet for their 100th Anniversay. The

theme is " Second Century in Bloom" There is a special tour being offered called:

Blueprints to Bricks, allowing visitors to peek in areas of the Manor House that are

usually off limits. Or we can take the traditional tour. Senior Group Rates will be available.

More information on time of tours and cost at the general meeting. Guests are welcome.

NHGC SUMMER SCHEDULE OF EVENTS

JUNE 14th Members Garden Tour and dinner

June 17th Extra meeting Open to All – 6:30 PM @ Faith Fellowship Church

JULY 8th Dinner at the Greenfield Blueberry Farms in Peninsula

August 1 Stan Hywet Tour


http://www.nordoniahillsgardenclub.com/



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$$$$$$$$$$

Helyn Docs, Treasurer [email protected]

TREASURER'S REPORT April 22,2015 - June 1,

2015

4/22/2015 Balance Forward $4,478.09

Total Income $5,547.18

Balance before expenses $10,025.27

6/1/2015 Total Expenses ($2,851.55)

6/1/2015 New balance $7,173.72

Income: Plant Sale, 2015 Dues

Expenses: Plant Sale, Misc Club Fees

Respectfully submitted,

Helyn K Docs, Treasurer



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Sandy & Joe Willick [email protected]

2015 NORDONIA HILLS GARDEN CLUB TOUR OF GARDENS

Sunday, June 14th is our annual garden tour, rain or shine. We have five people who have kindly

opened their gardens to our members. The tour begins at 2:00 pm. The last garden stop is at

Bob & Carmen Park’s where we will be having our pot luck dinner around 5:00 pm. You are

welcome to bring a guest. Please bring an entrée, side dish, salad or dessert to share. You may

bring your own alcoholic beverages. Plates, plastic ware, coffee and non-alcoholic beverages

will be provided. When visiting the gardens, watch for the signs with our pink and green logo or

NHGC on it. This year’s gardens are—

No. 1 Necia Cerveny 6361 Olde Eight Road Boston Heights 234-380-5144

Take Olde Eight south. Necia’s house is set back from the road on left side of the street. (If you

come to Rt 303 you have gone too far)

No. 2 Tom & Linda Uridel 114 Hiram College Dr Sagamore Hills 330-467-2828

After leaving Necia’s return to Olde Eight heading north to West Highland Road. Turn left onto

West Highland. (Make sure you go under 271 to take Highland West). Turn right onto

Brandywine. Turn left onto Hiram College Drive.

No. 3 Bernadette Evans 356 Stone Bridge Drive Sagamore Hills 330-467-7878

After leaving the Uridel’s garden return to Brandywine Road and go left. Continue straight to

merge onto Olde Eight. Turn left onto Valley View Rd. Turn right onto Eaton Drive. Turn right

onto Seiberling Drive. Turn right again onto Stone Bridge Drive. Bernadette’s home is on the

right.

No. 4 David & Jean Dombrosky 724 Stoney Brook Rd Sagamore Hills 330-467-5864

After leaving Bernadette’s garden make a left back onto Seiberling Dr. Turn left onto Eaton

Drive. Turn right onto Valley View. Turn left onto N. Boyden. At Route 82 turn right. Turn left

onto Holzhauer. Turn right onto Greenwood Pkwy. Turn right onto Stoney Brook Dr.

No. 5 Bob & Carmen Park 715 Stoney Brook Rd Sagamore Hills 216-503-4414

Leaving Dombrosky’s garden walk across the street.



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Jan Filmeck, Assistant Secretary [email protected]

NHGC BOARD MEETING

May 4th. 2015

Meeting was called to order at 7:00p.m by our President, Bob Park, at the Macedonia City Hall

Community Room. The following members were present.

President, Robert Park

1st. Vice President, Jean Hovan

2nd. Vice President, Dottie Krieger

Secretary, Mary Ann Coneglio

Asst. Secretary, Jan Filmeck

Treasurer, Helyn Docs

Past President, Lilian Coluccio

Garden Tour Chairperson, Joe Wilick

Garden Tour Chairperson, Sandy Wilick

By-Laws Chairperson, Donna Patz

Historian, Sue Jerebek

Membership Chairperson, Pam Bof

Sunshine Chairperson, Jan Rudder

Club Members In Attendance: Carmen Park, Betty Stricharczuk, Kerry Wickert

The first 45 minutes of the meeting were spent in Plant Sale planning. Bob Parks will send the

decisions made to all members in a separate E Mail.

1st. Vice President Report – Jean reported the following:

- All schools have received seed packets.

- A new dwarf cherry tree has been delivered to the high school.

- Bernie Hovan, Jean’s husband, power washed the benches in the front of the high school.

- Wagons and plastic bags are needed for the plant sale.

- The Scholarship Committee completed their review of 25 applications. We selected 3

students that we felt were particularly worthy. The Garden Club scholarship of $1,000 was

awarded to our first pick. The other two students our committee selected will also be

receiving scholarships from other sources. As part of the review this year, the committee

documented the criteria they used for the scholarship review. This will be very helpful to

the next group to review scholarships.

- Jean Hovan will represent the Garden Club in speaking about gardening to a group at Our

Lady of Guadalupe church.

2nd. Vice President Report

- Dottie talked about some ideas for future activities. Tour of the gardens at Stan Hewitt

Hall and the Secret Gardens Hostas in Bainbridge were discussed.

(continued)



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- The Blueberry Dinner will be held on July 8th. Reservations are required. Anyone

interested in attending should contact Dottie at 330-467-5398.

- Stanley Stein a field botanist will be speaking about wild and native plants at our June

membership meeting.

- Dottie will soon be looking for outstanding landscapes for our landscape award. If anyone

sees any commercial sites with particularly beautiful plantings, please contact Dottie.

Treasurers Report

- Nothing to report for this month.

Membership Report

- So far we have 41 paid memberships. When we include 6 past presidents we have a total

paid membership of 47.

June Garden Tour

- The Garden Tour is planned for June 14th. Hopefully we will have 4 or 5 gardens to tour.

Please contact Sandy Wilick at 330-467-7690 if you would like to add your garden to the

tour. We are also looking for a member to host refreshments for the tour.

President’s Report

Elaine Nidy has quite a number of baskets that belong to the club. She is hoping we can find

some use for them as storage is becoming a problem. A suggestion was made to give them to

people buying plants at the plant sale. The baskets are from small to large in size. Any ideas of

how to utilize the baskets would be appreciated.

- Bob Park has been meeting with Macedonia City Hall in regard to the maintenance of the

Memorial Park. The City of Macedonia is currently widening route 82 to accommodate the

move of the route 271 entrance. This road change will cause the park to go through a

major renovation. We are not sure what the city plans to do with the plantings in the park.

The Club will put on hold any work on the park until more information is known.

Donna Patz made a motion to adjourn the meeting , Mary Ann Coneglia seconded. The

meeting was adjourned at 8:30 pm.

Submitted by Jan Filmeck – Assistant Secretary

NHGC BOARD MEETING

June 1, 2015

Meeting was called to order at 8:00p.m by our President, Bob Park, at his home. The following

members were present. (continued)



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President, Robert Park

2nd. Vice President, Dottie Krieger

Asst. Secretary, Jan Filmeck

Treasurer, Helyn Docs

Garden Tour Chairperson, Joe Wilick

Garden Tour Chairperson, Sandy Wilick

By-Laws Chairperson, Donna Patz

Historian, Sue Jerebek

Membership Chairperson, Pam Bof

Sunshine Chairperson, Jan Rudder

Sunshine Chairperson, Jane Lebzelter

Refreshment Chairperson, Sandy Gossett

Club Members In Attendance: Carmen Park

Presidents Report

- Bob Park discussed information he has been working on in support of preparing a budget

for the upcoming year. Donna Patz, Helyn Docs and Jan Filmeck have volunteered to

assist.

- There was discussion about the garden club maintaining it’s 501C3 status. The topics

addressed were:

Do we need to incorporate

Do we need liability insurance

Do we need to file a yearly tax return

What types of organizations can the club make donations to – must they be related to

gardening

Helyn Docs will be investigating these topics.

2nd. Vice President Report

- Dottie Krieger spoke of activities planned for the summer

- June – Garden Tour

- June – Membership meeting at Faith Fellowship Church – topics the speaker will present

are birds, pollinators, and children.

- July – Blueberry Dinner – Tickets for members are $30.00 non-members are $35.00

- August 1st. A group tour of Stan Hywet Hall and Gardens is being planned.

- August 19th. Picnic in the park

Garden Tour Report

- Sandy and Joe Willick reported that we have 5 gardens to tour. We will end the tour with

refreshments at Bob and Carmen Park’s home.

(continued)



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Treasurers Report

Current bank balance has gone from $4,478.09 in April to $7,173.72.

Increase is due to payment of membership dues and the plant sale.

- There was discussion about expenditures that exceed budgeted amounts while working on

projects. Donna Patz will add a statement to the by-laws saying that any expenditures

exceeding the budget by more than 10% will require committee chair approval.

Membership Report

- Pam Bof reported that we currently have 62 paid members. We also have 5 past

presidents on the roster, bringing the total membership count to 67.

- There are a number of past members who have not yet paid their dues. Some are people

who have been members for a long time. Pam will send an E mail reminding them that

their dues are not paid.

Miscellaneous

- Jan Filmeck has found a place to purchase the the Atlas gardening gloves that the Club

previously purchased. The gloves cost somewhere between $3.45 and $4.50 a pair,

depending on quantities. Jan will be purchasing approximately 50 pairs of gloves, some

large, some medium. Total expenditure not to exceed $200.00. Dottie Krieger has offered

to make them available to club members for purchase.

Carmen Park made a motion to adjourn the meeting, Jan Rudder seconded. The meeting

was adjourned at 9:30 pm.

Submitted by Jan Filmeck – Assistant Secretary



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NHGC SUNSHINE COMMITTEE

Jan Rudder [email protected] Jane Lebzelter [email protected]

Bobbi Armstrong’s mother, Eleanor Petrovic, passed away May 22nd. Our deepest sympathies to Bobbi and her family.

Please contact Jan or Jane if you know of any member who could use a card of get well, best

wishes, or congratulations from our club.

Mary Ann Coneglio Jane Lebzelter Imre Papp

Dottie Krieger Janet Rudder

Elaine Thompson Nancy Hatala

“Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it

doesn’t matter.” – Mark Twain

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Pam Bof, Membership [email protected]

N E W M E M B E R S

Nancy Hatala 330.467.7804 [email protected]

Kathy & Wayne Smith 316.381.2908 [email protected]

Rose Cassmer 330.467-1704 [email protected]

Mary & John Leben 330.467.9305 [email protected]

Jackie Gernhard 330.467.8582 --------------------

Do you have a friend who likes flowers, food and FUN?

Bring them along to an open meeting or activity. They won’t be able to resist joining our fabulous garden club.







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Ann O’Neal, Lunch Bunch [email protected]

The NHGC lunch bunch recently met at Olesia's, a Ukrainian restaurant. This was the first stop on the world tour of trying restaurants of different cultures. We had the opportunity to try a variety of Ukrainian dishes such as borscht, pirohi, and stuffed cabbage. For desert we headed off to 'Windswept in Time'. Kim and Edgar Stehli were our hosts. We toured their greenhouse and saw thousands of orchids though they weren't all in bloom. It was still mind boggling. Edgar then gave a brief talk on orchids. It was most informative! Stay tuned for information on the next lunch outing. I'd love to have you join us. It was suggested we need a new name for the lunch bunch because it sounds too similar to another group. Have any suggestions? Please email me your suggestions.




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A NICE THANK YOU FOR ALL YOUR HARD WORK!!

From: Beth <[email protected]>

Date: Thu, May 21, 2015 at 9:05 AM

Subject: Thank you!

To: "[email protected]"

Hi! I'm writing on behalf of Ledgeview Elementary and we wanted to send a thank you card. We really

appreciated the wonderful donations. It helped a great deal! What address should I send the card?

Have a wonderful day!

Beth Seachrist

mailto:browland84%40gmail.com

mailto:rpark21643%40gmail.com



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2015 BOARD AND CHAIRPERSONS

2015 Board Members

2015 Chairpersons

President Bob Park

Membership Pam Bof

[email protected] 330.998.5354


Past President Lilian Coluccio

Garden Tour Sandy & Joe Willick



1st Vice President Jean Hovan

By-Laws Donna Patz



2nd Vice President Dottie Krieger

Newsletter Editor Louise Burkett



Secretary Mary Ann Coneglio

Lunch Bunch Ann O'Neal



Asst. Secretary Jan Filmeck

Refreshment Committee Sandy Gossett



Treasurer Helyn Docs

Refreshment Committee Gerry Setele



Sunshine Committee Jane Lebzelter


Sunshine Committee Jan Rudder


Historian Sue Jerabek

















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