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Registration is going well! At press time we had 58 registrants. We
expect March to be the busiest month for registration. Have YOU registered
yet?
While we can’t anticipate all the wrinkles that may come up associated
with volunteering at and attending the conference, a few guidelines have
been established for Denton County MG volunteers. If you are volunteering
only and do not plan to attend any of the conference events, you do not
have to pay and you will earn service hours; you will not be able to earn
any advanced training hours. If you pay, i.e. register for the conference,
you may take the hours served as advanced training or service. If you
volunteer as a bus tour guide you must still pay the $35 which pays for
the bus, lunch and admission fees; tour guides do not need to pay the
registration fee and can get service hours credit. As you can guess, these
may only be a few of the situations we encounter. If you’re unsure of how
to credit your volunteer time, check with Donna or Peggy. These and other
guidelines will be discussed at the two volunteer training meetings.
Volunteers are encouraged to attend either meeting: 9:30am, April 4, or
7:00pm, April 18, in the Guadalupe Room, Doral Hotel and Golf Club.
Other than the conference directly, service hours can be earned for
helping stuff goodie bags, 3:00-5:00pm, March 22, and 29, (if needed). We’ll
also be adding redbud seedlings to the goodie bags, 9:00am, April 26. These
opportunities to help will be at the extension office.
The excitement continues to build! The conference committee hopes each
of you will find a way to participate in this huge Denton County
undertaking. Call or email Donna to volunteer.
 Speakers Bureau
Rodney Solwalskie, 2005 intern, will be making a presentation to The
Colony Early Childhood PTA on the topic of "The Three Keys to Successful
Gardening" on Monday, March 14. Anyone interested in volunteering with the
Speaker's Bureau should contact Annell Burns.
Hospitality
The Hospitality Committee needs volunteers to provide refreshments for
the DCMGA meetings on Wednesdays, Sept. 14 and October 12 (evening meeting
at 7:00pm.) If you can help, please contact Sue Chellew, Chairman.
North Denton Branch Library
Work has begun again on the xeriscape garden project at the North Denton
Branch Library, at the corner of Locust and Windsor. Plan to work
each Thursday morning from 9:30-12:00. Work will continue for the next
month or more. Bring shovels, gloves, hand tools, buckets, and
wheelbarrows.
The project committee is asking for donations of the following plants:
Rudibeckia Goldstrum, Lamb's Ear, Yellow Lantana, Purple Cone Flower,
Mexican Mint Marigold, Yellow Yarrow, Mealy Blue Sage, Copper Canyon
Daisy, Russian Sage, Butterfly Bush (prefer dark color), Vitex (prefer
dark color), and Redbud Trees.
Please consider donating some of these as you get your beds ready for
spring planting. Contact Carol Fitch regarding pick-up of donated
plants or for more information.
Children's
Arbor Day Project
Volunteers are needed to bag redbud seedlings on Wednesday, April 6,
9:30am, at the Keep Denton Beautiful office, 1117 Riney Rd. Presentation
of Arbor Day programs and distribution of seedlings to Denton
third-graders will be Thursday, April 7, and Friday, April 8. A sign-up
sheet is in the Extension Office or you may contact Carolyn Gold.
Bayless-Selby House Victorian Gardens
Gardening days have been scheduled for spring clean-up and planting in the
perennial and herb gardens. The dates are Wednesdays, March 16, April 20,
and May 18, at 9:00am. The Gardens are located at the corner of Mulberry
and Carroll Streets in Denton. Please bring gardening tools. If you would
like to be on a committee to look after individual gardens, (herb, antique
rose, perennial, pass-a-long, etc.), water trees, or be a docent on the
Walking Path, please contact Carolyn Gold.
Highland
Village Elementary School Outdoor Classroom
This outdoor classroom project is in need of a "refurbishing".
Workdays have been scheduled for Friday, March 4, 8:00am-12:00,and
Saturday, March 5, 9:00am-12:00.The school is located at 301 Brazos Blvd.,
Highland Village (corner of Sellmeyer and Brazos). Volunteers should bring
gloves, garden tools and wheelbarrows (if possible). The project
needs donations of mulch, newspapers, native plants and grasses, small
vegetable plants, herbs, and any plants appropriate for a butterfly
garden. Please contact Jill Peak, 2005 intern, for more information.
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Publication of Denton County Master Gardener Association.