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President’s PAGE We will PLANT Community Gardens with a new program, “Plant Together” • This new program will encourage garden clubs, civic groups, youth groups, etc. to schedule a work day during National Garden Week to plant or spruce up community gardens. • Each club or group that registers with VFGC will be provided with a publicity packet to help spread the word that garden clubs benefit the community with beautification projects. We will PLANT by establishing a “Branching Out” grant program for club community beautification projects. We will PLANT seeds for tomorrow by continuing the “Keys to the Future” grants for youth-centered gardening programs. Since its inception in 2007, over $25,000 has been awarded in these grants and in the past 2 years alone, over 5000 youth in Virginia benefited from this program. The time is NOW—to generate enthusiasm, to initiate some new programs and to continue gardening in our communities across the state. I look forward to working with all of you as we “Grow Now . . . Planting the Seeds for Tomorrow.” Judy B. Binns Meet the President Judy began her garden club work in 1990. She is a member and former president of the Salisbury GC, an Accredited-Life Flower Show Judge, and served as President of Piedmont District from 2001-2003. She has served VFGC as 1st Vice President, 2nd Vice President, and Treasurer before being installed as President in May 2011. She was awarded the NGC Member of Honor Award for the South Atlantic Region for All-Around Excellence in 2006. Judy served as the webmaster of National Garden Clubs from 2007-2011 and designed the first websites for both VFGC and the South Atlantic Region. She is also a Design Instructor for National Garden Clubs Flower Show School and has exhibited designs in “Fine Arts and Flowers” at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts and numerous flower shows. Judy is a native Virginian from the Shenandoah Valley. She graduated from Bridgewater College with a degree in mathematics and concentration in computer science. She and her husband, Richard, have two married children and one grandchild. She also volunteers at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, including serving as co-chairman for Fine Arts & Flowers in 2007 and 2010. 4 www.virginiagardenclubs.org
VFGC NEWS NEWLY DESIGNED VFGC WEBSITE BLUE GLOVES FOR BLUE STARS www.virginiagardenclubs.org The VFGC website has a new and exciting look! If you have not visited the website recently, take the time to browse the pages and see what garden club members across the state of Virginia are doing. Some of the new features include: • Digital version of Old Dominion Gardener • How To section with tips on conservation, container gardening, floral design and more • Photo gallery highlighting club flower shows and projects plus ideas for your home and garden • YouTube video of a project awarded a VFGC Youth Project Grant • More downloadable forms including the VFGC Life Membership Form • Information on applying to become a part of the VFGC Group Exemption for IRS 501(c)(3) • User friendly layout and menus for mobile phones and tablet devices Send photos, news and events for posting on the website to: Nancy Hargroves VFGC Website Chairman inbleum@comcast.net Visit the website often to keep up to date on the latest information for VFGC members. The Blue Star Memorial Program honors service men and women. In 1945, the National Council of State Garden Clubs adopted the program and began a Blue Star Highway system, which covers thousands of miles across the Continental United States, Alaska and Hawaii. Virginia has some of the oldest Blue Star Memorial Markers in the US with the first one dedicated on August 24, 1949. Since 1949, VFGC, districts and clubs have placed over 45 Blue Star Markers along the highways and byways of Virginia as well as at national cemeteries, parks, veteran’s facilities and gardens. These oldest Blue Star Memorial markers have weathered along the roadsides for over 50 years and now need some TLC. You can help by participating in new program, “Blue Gloves for Blue Stars.” Plan to attend your district meeting and make a $10 donation to the Blue Star Memorial Fund and receive a pair of blue gardening gloves. Your support of this project will help VFGC refurbish those markers placed before 1960 as well as any others in need of repair. Donate at your district meeting and wear your “blue gloves” proudly as you help make the Blue Stars in Virginia shine brightly again! For more information, contact: Gloria Crump VFGC Blue Star Memorial Chairman 540-234-9300 gcrump@ntelos.net Summer 2011 Old Dominion Gardener 5
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