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SOUTHERN ONTARIO ORCHID SOCIETY NEWS December 2010, Volume 45, Issue 11 SOUTHERN ONTARIO ORCHID SOCIETY NEWS December 2010, Volume 45, Issue 11 Web site: www.soos.ca ; Member of the Canadian Orchid Congress; Affiliated with the American Orchid Society, the Orchid Digest and the International Phalaenopsis Alliance. Membership: Annual Dues $25 per calendar year (January 1 to December 31 ). Membership secretary: Hesse Pommells 416-245-0369, #503-370 Dixon Road, Weston, Ontario, M9R 1T2 Executive: President, Yvonne Schreiber, 905-473-3405; Vice-president and Treasurer, Elizabeth McAlpine, 416-487-7832; Secretary, Sue Loftus 905-839-8281; Honorary Life Members: Terry Kennedy, Doug Kennedy, Inge Poot, Peter Poot, Joe O’Regan, Diane Ryley, Wayne Hingston. Annual Show: February 12 – 13, 2011 SOOS display at ECOS by Don Wyatt photoPP Meeting Program Sunday, December 5, Sales at noon, program at 1 pm. Annual auction, and Pot luck social. Please note: In order to leave lots of time for the pot luck social there will not be a plant show table, and there will be no regular plant raffle at this meeting.Annual Auction: This is your chance at some choice plants donated by outstanding growers. This is our annual auction (both silent and bid) and Christmas potluck luncheon meeting. Members are asked to bring and donate orchids and any orchid-related items (such as books, mugs, pins, pots, stands,...) for the auction. The proceeds are split between SOOS and the AOS Toronto Judging Centre. Mario Ferrusi and Wayne Hingston will once again be back as auctioneers to make this event both beneficial and entertaining. Pot Luck Social: This is always a very popular event. So bring your favourite holiday dish to share and pitch in with the set up and clean up. Next meeting is January 9 your membership card is in error. It says January 2 Early Membership Renewal Draw. This will be the first of two draws for special plants purchased by SOOS. All those who rejoined before the end of our November meeting will be in this draw. Early Membership Renewal Draw. To encourage early renewal for 2011 there will again be two draws for orchid plants. 2010 Members renewing membership for the 2011 year who renew by the end of the November meeting are eligible for the December and January draws. Anyone renewing by the end of the December meeting is eligible for the January draw. A member is able to win only once. So, renew now and get yourself a chance at an orchid plant. 2011 Membership in SOOS is now available. Still $25 for a full year of Orchid fun and fellowship. Renew now at the Membership desk and get yourself a chance at an orchid plant. 1 SOOS President’s Remarks Newcomers' Meetings Fellow orchid aficionados. There are a number of items that I would like to bring to your Wayne Hingston (905-686-5697) will once attention. The highlights of the December again present his excellent series on the culture meeting will be the annual auction and our of the most popular types of hobby orchids. potluck lunch. If you have anything to donate, These sessions are for members who have just be it plants or anything orchid related, e.g. started in orchids and will be presented at the pictures, mugs, books, etc., please let Jay Norris Toronto Botanical Garden Board Room on the following Monday evenings at 7 pm: know. He would prefer to know about your donations ahead of time and you can reach him Dec. 13, 2010 at [email protected]. The proceeds from this auction are split between the Judging Centre Jan. 10, 2011 and S.O.O.S. Don’t forget to bring along your favorite dish to share. It can be a salad, main American Orchid Society Report course or dessert. S.O.O.S. will be providing the from Virginia Beach Oct./2010 by beverages. Although I have four volunteers to Mario Ferrusi help organize the food in the kitchen, a couple more pairs of hands would be greatly The fall AOS Members Meetings were held in Virginia Beach, Virginia at the Cavalier Hotel appreciated. Just let me know by e-mail. which is located on Atlantic Ave. Everyone has As is typical for our December meetings, there an ocean view. will not be a show table or a raffle. Our usual There were many hotels along this stretch. vendors will be present. The majority of the We were very fortunate to have four time at the meeting will be taken up by the beautiful sunny and warm days with gentle rolling waves for a few surfers to enjoy. auction, featuring Wayne Hingston and Mario Ferrusi as our auctioneers. The potluck lunch One of the first things AOS President Chris will follow the end of the auction. Bring money Rehmann annouced was that the Trustees for the auction and your appetite for the meeting would be open to anyone who potluck. cared to sit in and he encouraged a short question period. He also announced that the AOS would once again be participating in the Philadelphia flower show at There is an update on our next meetings. The Longwood Gardens in March 2011 by th next two meetings will take place on January 9 putting in a display. and 30th, 2011. The T.B.G. will be closed for At the Town Hall Meeting, Chris spoke of New Year’s on January 2nd. the AOS building in Del Rey Beach, Florida, being put up for sale. A task force is actively looking into relocation, most As our annual orchid show quickly approaches possibly with one of the major US gardens. please give serious consideration as to how you (eg Longwood Gardens-Philadelhia, PA: can help to make it a resounding success. Sign Huntington-San Marino, CA, etc.) The up sheets for a wide variety of jobs will be building will not be sold until a full appraisal and a fair offer is received. available at the December meeting. Put your name down on one of them or maybe two – you The AOS will very soon have a re-vamped will get into the show for free after your tour of web page and a new judging and awards duty. program. The web page will be much easier to navigate and we are looking at If have any questions, you can contact me at different levels of membership including a [email protected], or 905-473- completely web based membership with all 3405. Or just speak to me at one of our or portions of the Orchids magazine included. meetings. Yvonne Schreiber 2 The Orchids magazine this year included an that none of these is cast in concrete as yet. I additional volume devoted entirely to add that caution as some may read what follows, Latouria Dendrobiums. It is planning to do be outraged, and approach me with blood in this again on another topic next year. their eyes; by all means, let me know your thoughts and ideas on anything related to the show. There will be no cafe or tea room; the 2011 SOOS Show News: reason for that is 2-fold: concerns for space, and no vendor will tackle just a cafe. The judges' o Work continues at a brisk pace on preparation luncheon will be prepared by our cordon bleu for the 2011 SOOS Show. Much of it is behind- chef, Bob Dowzansky, the man who keeps our the-scenes; only those directly involved get a energy levels high for the whole orchid show true sense of all this. And for that reason, we weekend. Seminars may or may not be held; if have decided to keep you informed via they are, we may scale them down so that the these monthly vignettes. The publicity / board room and/or the conference room at the marketing plan, drawn up by Linda Kafka, is TBG will be where they are held. We are rolling out nicely. Its successful debating, vigorously at times, whether to have a implementation is definitely what either gets the table for baskets or not; space in the Floral Hall people into the TBG or misses our targets. Mind is a factor. you, weather plays a part as well, but we have o Where we place the sales areas is still a moot no control over it. Linda has created both point. It appears right now that we will use all 3 coupons and posters for the show, and they are of the studios for one sales area. Because the quite striking. We will have them for handout at Garden Hall will be renovated (with work the December 5 meeting. We always need help scheduled to begin in early November), we must from you to distribute posters and especially allow for alternate additional sales areas: one coupons, as well as talking up the show with would be the Garden Hall, assuming it is ready. those you know or meet. The other would use the Moriyama Foyer and o Invitations must be sent to the suite of vendors the Milne House Garden Club room (at the east who we hope will favour us with their presence, end of the 2nd floor of the TBG). The latter is a knowledge, and marvellous orchids at the show. "strictly off limits" area normally; only through the As well, there are individuals and other orchid kindness of the Milne House Garden Club has societies who we invite. The invitations go out this room been offered to us for show use. For via CanPost, or snail mail; I am very grateful to your information, the pioneer family who owned Terry Kennedy for taking on the laborious job of what is now Edwards' Gardens was named creating the hardcopy (invitations, forms, and Milne.
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