text: Tuesday, February 3, 2015
  
  February 2015 CCMGA Newsletter
  
  Please keep this newsletter as it will contain information
  that will be useful throughout the entire year.
  
  The meetings are scheduled for:
  
  Saturday 14 Feb at 11
  AM at the Enslow Park Presbyterian Church (Snow
  date will be Sat 21 Feb at 11 AM.)
  
  Tuesday 14 April at
  6:30 PM at the Enslow Park Presbyterian Church
  
  Tuesday 12 May at 6:
  30 PM at the Enslow Park Presbyterian Church
  
  Tuesday 9 June at
  6:30 PM at the Enslow Park Presbyterian Church
  
  Saturday 29 Aug at 3
  PM at shelter #1 at the Barboursville City Park – speaker Brian Cordle on “Geocaching”
  – this is our annual picnic – bring friends or family PLUS a potluck dish to feed
  6 -8 people
  
  Tuesday 13 Oct at
  6:30 PM at the Enslow Park Presbyterian Church – speaker will be Mary
  Beckelhimer on “Botanical Witchcraft”
  
  Saturday 5 Dec at the
  Boyd County, KY Extension Office in Catlettsburg, KY – Lori Bowling will teach
  us to make Christmas wreaths and we will be making our own wreaths – there will
  be a fee for this, the amount to be announced – this is our holiday luncheon –
  bring a potluck dish to feed 6-8 people
  
  There will be door prizes at each meeting.
  
  The WSAZ Home and Garden Show will be Fri 13 March 4-9 PM, Sat 14 March
  10 AM – 9 PM and Sun 15 March 12 – 5 PM.
  
  Set-up for the booth will be Thurs 12 March at 10 AM.
  
  Contact Connie Berk to sign up to
  work at the MG booth. Work phone # 304) 696-7341, berkc@marshall.edu or home phone # 304)
  429-7318. I need people to volunteer at the MG booth in a minimum of 2 hour increments.
  You may work for longer periods of time. The number of hours you work will
  count towards your annual volunteer time.
  If you wish to listen to a speaker, then that time will count as
  continuing education, not as volunteer time. No double dipping!
  
  The booth will be located in the
  same spot that we’ve been in for the last several years, across the aisle and
  slightly to the left of the WSAZ booth.
  
  We enter the Big Sandy Superstore
  Arena through the loading dock door on 7th Street, between Third Ave.
  and Veteran’s Blvd. Your name will be on a list that the security guard will
  have. Wear your name badges and/or shirts with logos if you have them.
  Also, wear comfortable clothes and shoes. We will have rubber mats on the floor
  in the booth, but the flooring underneath that is concrete and it’s hard! Try
  not to bring purses or any other valuable items as the only safe place we’ll
  have to keep them is in the booth with us. Space can get tight! We will have a
  Hospitality Room behind the stage, where we may eat and rest. We can only bring
  in outside food into the Hospitality Room, nothing may be taken out onto the
  floor of the Arena.
  
  You may take some time to look
  around at the other vendors and shop, but that time does not count towards your
  volunteer time either.
  
  If you want to work when the Show first
  opens to the public on any given day, you must
  arrive at the Arena one hour before the Show opens to the public, as we must be
  in the booth and ready when the doors open, i.e. on Fri the Show opens to the
  public at 4 PM but we need to be at the booth at 3 PM.
  
  There is some free parking in a
  small parking lot on 7th Street, across from the Arena. There is
  more parking available in the Pullman Square parking garages, entrances at 8th
  Street, 9th Street and 10th Street. The cost is $1 for
  the first 4 hours.
  
  Rich Sherman is the Cabell County
  Extension agent. He may be reached at Rich.Sherman@mail.wvu.edu
  or at 304) 743-7151. To leave a message, call Pauline at 304) 743-7131.
  
  On 14 January 2015 Rich said that
  he would grant amnesty to any and all who wish to return to the Cabell County
  Master Gardener Association in 2015. Those who return must send him a message
  that they are returning. If they have
  not been a part of the organization since he became our Agent, then they may
  need to reapply and possibly retake the 5 core courses of the training. Simply
  put, he needs to be certain that everyone is up to date on our procedures.In Dec 2014, new officers were elected for 2015 and 2016:
  
  Dues should have been paid by 1 Jan
  2015. Make out checks for $16 per person, payable to CCMGA, Inc. and mail them
  to Cabell County Master Gardener Association, Inc., PO Box 7661, Huntington,
  WV 25578-7661. Or, bring them to the
  next meeting and save on postage!
  
  There is a Small Farm Conference on
  Feb 26-28, 2015, to be held at the Charleston Civic Center. Bring in samples of
  heirloom seeds for the seed swap on Fri afternoon, 27 Feb. Contact Rich for
  further info.
  
  The next Master Gardener Conference
  is scheduled for March 27-29 2015 at Pipestem Resort, WV. For more info,
  contact Rich or check our webpage.