April, 2024

Dear Harpswell Garden Club:

PLEASE SAVE THESE TWO DATES:

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 17, NOON, MERRICONEAG GRANGE, 529 HARPSWELL NECK ROAD, HARPSWELL
Harpswell Aging at Home (HAH) is once again offering Lunch with Friends. All are invited to attend this free event and enjoy good food and good conversation with new and old friends. The Garden Club is partnering with Elijah Kellogg’s Women’s Fellowship to provide food for HAH’s Lunch on Wednesday, April 17. We need volunteers to prepare main dishes and side dishes. Servers and clean-up helpers are also needed. Breads and desserts are already filled.

Please contact Becky Gallery or Linda Clement if you can provide a dish that serves about eight. Main dishes include casseroles, stews, soup and pot pies. Various salads are welcome: fruit salad, mixed greens, pasta salad etc. If you have a vegetarian or a gluten free dish you love, please consider making it to share.

All food should be delivered to the Grange by 11:30 a.m. on the 17th. Hot dishes should be at serving temperature when you drop them off. Please include a brief list of ingredients for any food you deliver, and don’t forget to label your container if you can’t stay for the meal. We will get it back to you after the event. Thanks for volunteering for this fun event.

Please contact Becky Gallery if you can help serve or clean up or have questions.

THURSDAY, APRIL 18, 1:00 P.M. MONTHLY MEETING WITH LYNETTE BRETON: whose talk is:
“THE MYRIAD USES OF HERBS: CULINARY, MEDICINAL AND ARTISTISTIC”, Elijah Kellogg Church, Fellowship Hall, 917 Harpswell Neck Road, Harpswell Center.

MEETING CHANGE AND CONFLICT WITH HGC MEETING: Due to the coming winter storm on Thursday, April 4th, the Stroudwater District Annual Meeting has been rescheduled to Thursday, April 18th. It will still be at the Italian Heritage Center, 40 Westland Avenue, Portland, beginning with check-in and breakfast treats at 9:15 a.m.
It you have previously registered to attend, no need to register, just come.
If you have already registered and cannot attend, please notify Registrar Donna Anderson at Donnaanderson575@gmail.com by April 10, 2024. Your registration will be cancelled, and your check will be destroyed.
I will be sending out new registration forms for the April 18th date for those who have not previously registered.

BECKETT CASTLE ROSE GARDEN: Tickets are now available online for the June 29th tour of the Beckett Castle Rose Garden in Cape Elizabeth. Tickets are available through the Garden Conservancy website at www.gardenconservancu.org/open-days/garden-directory/beckett-castle-rose-garden Tickets are $10 and only available by filling in the online form at the web address above. If someone has a problem or needs help ordering a ticket, please contact Suzanne Bushnell at smbushnell@comcast.net.

HGC ANNUAL MEETING: I hope by now everyone has renewed their membership and made reservations to attend the Annual Meeting and Luncheon on May 16 at St. Charles Borromeo Church, 132 McKeen Street, Brunswick from 11:30-3:00 pm. After the meeting and election, we will have the pleasure of a presentation by Marty Grassie, Floral Photographer.

SLATE: Many Thanks again to the Nominating Committee for their hard work. The Committee is Cindy Mudford, Nancy Kinser and Liza Rowland. We have a great slate of candidates for the upcoming year:

President: Tuckie Westfall
Vice President: Cindy Mudford
Secretary: Wendy Downes
Treasurer: Anne Mankiewich
Assistant Treasurer: Margaret Broughall
Programs: Nancy Simboli

Barbara Aiken: Aster/Fall Mum Sale-Chair, Flowers for Meetings
Suzanne Bushnell: Awards, Gold Star Marker & Naval Museum Garden-Chair, Webmaster Co-Chair
Patty O’Brien Carrier: Hospitality Co-Chair
Annette Dunn: Fall Fest Co-Chair
Elizabeth Dyer: Aster/Fall Fest Co-Chair
Becky Gallery: HHP Park Gardens-Chair, Scholarship-Chair, Webmaster Co-Chair
Lauren Griffiths: Membership
Les Klein: Yearbook
Cindy Mudford: Weddings and Event Flowers, Chair, Nominating Committee
Deira Murray: Town Office Garden, Chair, Aster/Fall Mum Sale-Co-Chair
Nancy Kinser: Nominating Committee
Sue Perless: Fall Fest Co-Chair
Liza Rowland: Publicity, Communications-Chair, Nominating Committee
Judy Stallworth: Weddings & Event Flowers, Co-Chair
Ann Standridge: Cards
Anne Taft: Properties

ADVERTISEMENT: I hope everyone saw the very attractive ad in the most recent Anchor for the Garden Club’s wedding and events flowers.

Hoping for Spring,

Tuckie Westfall, President