HL October 12.indd - Harbour Light Magazine

Huntington Harbour Garden Club
by Kitty Rozenstraten
At installation, L to R: Gloria Beckstrom, Betty McCarthy, Mary Johnston, Wendy Gingerich, Carole
Weninger, Barbara Devlin, and Pearl Holmes.
Summer Time! Who said the living
is easy? Not so for some members of the
Huntington Harbour Garden Club.
Not for the 2012-2013 board members
who were installed on June 19, 2012
during a lunch meeting at Shenandoah
at the Arbor in Los Alamitos. Board
members are: President: Doreen Hill;
First Vice President: (Ways and Means)
Betty McCarthy; Second Vice President
(Programs): Doreen Hill, assisted by
Gloria Beckstrom; Third Vice President
(Hospitality): Donna Shaffer, assisted
by Carole Weninger; Secretary: Irene
Cooper; Corresponding Secretary: Pam
Smart; Treasurer: Mary Johnston; and
Parliamentarian: Wynne Hayes.
While some HHGC members were
taking it easy, tending their gardens,
traveling, watching the Olympics,
entertaining visiting family and friends;
board members got together several times
to plan the program for 2012-2013. In
her dual role as Yearbook Chairperson,
Corresponding Secretary Pam Smart was
busy putting her talents into the creation
Let’s Get Traveling!!
New
Location
on Argosy Ave
John Bernatz
5231 Argosy Ave. (California Faucets Building) · Huntington Beach
Tel: 714.846.1339 Fax: 714.840.8380
of the new yearbook. Every year our
yearbook is truly a work of art, embellished
with many beautiful photographs. It is no
wonder the 2011-2012 HHGC year book
was awarded first place in its category by
California Garden Clubs., Inc. Members
will be able to admire the new yearbook
on the first meeting of the year scheduled
for September 18, 2012.
We are proud to see the names of
three new members in our yearbook: Elise
Masseling, Jeanne Nakamura and Wendy
Gingerich. Besides a love for gardening,
Elise also enjoys music and singing in the
choir of GWC. Elise and her husband
Jake have a passion for traveling and
are planning a trip to Australia this fall.
Jeanne moved to Huntington Beach
from La Habra seven years ago. She is
an avid golfer and gardener, of course.
She has a passion for growing sweet peas
and plumerias. Wendy, a retired science
teacher, has lived in Huntington Beach
for more than 40 years. Now that she is
retired, gardening has become her favorite
pastime. Her main area of interest lies in
the Norma B. Gibbs Butterfly Park.
In July Wendy Nakamura and Pearl
Holmes, Newsletter Editor, attended
a lecture given by Leslie Gilson at
Sherman Gardens. Leslie Gilson is the
Restoration Coordinator for the Norma
B. Gibbs Butterfly Park in Huntington
Beach. The restoration project at the
park was started in 2008. Its mission is
the restoration and preservation of the
Monarch Butterfly habitat. The project
includes removal of dead trees and
planting new trees and plants, especially
milkweed plants or Asclepias fascicularis.
Monarch caterpillars eat only the leaves
from milkweed plants; a single caterpillar
can eat 20-30 leaves before she is ready
to make her chrysalis. Besides milkweed
plants, Ms Gilson and her volunteers also
plant a wide variety of “nectar plants”.
Nectar plants attract and feed adult
butterflies and others insects and even
birds. If you haven’t visited The Gibbs
Butterfly Park, you will be pleasantly
surprised. It is located on 11641 Graham
Street, Huntington Beach across from the
Meadowlark Golf Course.
Supporting the stewardship of the
park is an example of the more than dozen
philanthropies of the HHGC. Others are
providing seed money and actual labor
for the gardening projects at several local
elementary schools, the Native Garden
for Science Students at GWC, the Shipley
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