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April 25th, 2017 (Tuesday) Meeting

Program & Agenda 1

Show and Tell Winners 2

Announcements/Event Calendar 3-6

2017 VCOS Officers 6

Advertisements 7

Dues Payment Form 8

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Volume 29 Issue 4

April 2017

The Ventura County Orchid Society (VCOS) will meet on Tuesday, April 25th. The meeting location is the Ventura Townehouse located at 4900 Telegraph Road in Ventura, 7th (top) Floor.

Agenda:

6:30 PM Room Available: Set-up and Silent Auction 6:50 PM Cultural Session 7:15 to 8:15 PM Speaker 8:15 PM Break—Silent Auction and Plant Judging 8:30 PM Business Meeting 8:45 PM Results of Plant Judging Meetings will be held on the 4th Tuesday of the month at the Ventura Townehouse January through October. A Birthday dinner is held the month of November.

Speaker: Kyra Rude

Kyra L Rude, specialist in biological pest control, engages partici-pants in lectures and workshops about biological control of insect pests in a variety of applications such as field, greenhouse, land-scape, and garden situations. Discussions about insect lifecycles and predator-prey relationships with visual aids and live insect demonstrations make the principles of biocontrol easy to understand for both lay and technical audiences.

Kyra is a California certified Technical Service Provider and manag-er of Rincon-Vitova Insectaries, Inc. that produces and markets sup-plies for biological pest control. She has been learning about organic methods of farming and gar-dening for 9 years.

After earning a BA in Biology at Purdue University, Kyra moved to Ventura to take an entomology internship at Rincon-Vitova Insectaries. She has thoroughly enjoyed learning about California’s vast agricultural diversity, and has a great interest in spreading Rincon-Vitova’s mission of sustainability throughout the community, especially to children and younger generations.

Kyra is a member of the Association of Applied IPM Ecologists (AAIE), and is a certified Technical Service Provider on behalf of the Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS).

Contact: [email protected] 805-643-5407

VCOS will provide the plant table.

Refreshments Reminder: Virginia Wang

Sandra Perello

Jim Kindig

Ellie West

March Program: “Biological Control for Orchids”

V E NTUR A COU NT Y OR CHI D SOCIE TY A FFI LIA T E OF T HE AM ER ICA N OR CH I D SOCI ET Y

2017 March Show and Tell Winners

President’s Message and...

Dear Members,

Happy Belated Easter to everyone. We had a good turn out for the Green House and Garden Tour at Armando's. He also sold some of his beautiful plants at amazingly low prices. If you missed this tour, be watching for future ones. Any-one wanting us to visit you and see your plants, let me know.

I hope everyone is grooming their plants for the big Spring Orchid Sale on Satur-day, May 6 from 9 am to 2 pm at the Dudley House. This is the Orchid Society's major fund raiser, so we need all of you to try and participate. If your plants are not in bloom, hopefully you have a picture of the plant or know the color. We all like to know what we are getting.

Jean Everett

VCOS President

1st: Bob Riggs, Cat, Paradise Beauty "Marcella"

3rd: Jim Sloniker, Paph. virens

2nd: Jim Sloniker, Paph. vio-lascens

Thank you Sherrie for the photos!

Townehouse Front Desk Orchid: Thank you Lucy Saito!

2017 VCOS Annual Dues $25 for a single member and $40 for member family

Please make checks payable to VCOS and submit to Jean Everett during the meeting or mail to: Jean Everett, 4391 Vasser Street, Ventura, CA 93003. Your dues are “due” by March 1st to have your name included in the VCOS Membership Directory. A Green Thumb Card and VCOS membership card will be dis-tributed to active members. (use enclosed form on page 6)

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Announcements

Mark Your Calendar JUNE

10-Jun: Green Thumb Demonstration

10-Jun: 15th Orchid Digest Speakers Day Huntington (Saturday)

27-Jun: VCOS Meeting

JULY

14-16 Jul: 37th Annual Santa Barbara Orchid Estate Summer Open House—Cal Orchid is open too!

25-Jul: VCOS Meeting:

AUGUST

2-13 Aug: Ventura County Fair:

13Aug: Cal Orchid Picnic

22-Aug: VCOS Meeting:

SEPTEMBER

26-Sep:VCOS Meeting:

JANUARY

24-Jan: VCOS Meeting: Doug Overstreet

FEBRUARY

25-26 Feb: Pacific Orchid Exposition Orchid Show, Golden Gate Park, Hall of Flowers

28-Feb: VCOS Meeting: Jim Sloniker

MARCH

17-19-Mar: 72nd Santa Barbara Internation-al Orchid Show, Earl Warren Fair-grounds, “Orchid Mystique”

25-Mar: VCOS Board Meeting

28-Mar: VCOS Meeting: Tim Culbertson

APRIL

1-Apr: Green House and Garden Field Trip & Tour

25-Apr: VCOS Meeting : Kyra Rude

MAY

23-May: VCOS Meeting,

TBD-Sep: Fascination of Orchids Show and Sale

OCTOBER

24-Oct: VCOS Meeting:

NOVEMBER

4-5 Nov: 59th Annual Santa Barbara Orchid Estate Fall Open House—Cal Orchid open too!

TBD: Birthday Dinner

18 & 19-Nov: Santa Barbara Orchid Society Show at SB Museum of Natu-ral History-Orchids Obsession

VCOS Annual Orchid Sale/Fundraiser

Saturday, May 6th

9:00 AM—2:00 PM

The Dudley House

Loma Vista Rd & Ashwood Ave Please clearly mark your plants with your name and price (even numbers to easily make change). Set up starts at 8:00 AM.

Green Thumb Demonstration,

Saturday, June 10, 10:00 - 1:00 p.m. Presented by Jim Kindig, Janell Beck, and Jan Sather. Contact Jim Kindig if interested in helping.


Announcements (cont.)

Honorable Mention Jim Kindig, BLC. Picotee Pas-sion 'Sunset Valley Or-chids'

VCOS Library

Don't forget we have a fabulous library of Orchid books that can be checked out from our Librarian, Nancy Tristan. The listing of books is in the directory.


Announcements (cont.)

Membership From (Please Print Clearly):

Last Name __________________________First Name________________________

Address: ________________________________________________________

City, State and Zip Code: ____________________________________________

Email address: ____________________________________________________

Home phone: _______________________________________

Mobile phone: ________________________________________

Membership: Single ($25.00): _____________ Family ($40.00) __________________

Checks payable to VCOS. Mail to Jean Everett; 4391 Vassar Street; Ventura, CA 93003

Questions? Contact Jean at (805) 223-0036 or [email protected]

Please send your Membership Info and Check as soon as possible in order to distribute the VCOS Directory by the March meeting. Please provide your information by March 1st to ensure you are included in the VCOS Directory.

Dues Payment Form


President: Jean Everett (805) 642-4815 [email protected]

1st Vice President: Lucy Saito [email protected] (805) 484-8880 & Sherrie Basham (805) 218-6876 [email protected]

Directors: Marian McWilliams [email protected] (805) 870-4196 Penny Harvey [email protected] Jon Wallace [email protected]

2017 Officers

Committees Librarian: Nancy Tristan [email protected] (805) 701-8208 Hospitality: Jean Everett (805) 642-4815 [email protected] Newsletter Editor: Jennifer Poulakos jenpoulakos@ gmail.com (805) 479-6721

2nd Vice President: Janell Beck [email protected] (805) 643-3361 Acting Treasurer Carl Rhoads Open Position

Secretary: Jan Hunter (805) 654-8381 [email protected]

Ventura County Orchid Society has a FaceBook page! Please visit our FaceBook Page—search the Face Book website with “Ventura County Orchid Society”. The page is updated monthly with the speaker information. Please visit the page and enter your comments. Our FaceBook page is edited by Jen Poulakos and Brigitte Campbell.

Announcements (cont.) Reminder: TOWNE HOUSE FRONT DESK ORCHID PLANT As of January 1, 2016, if you sign up to provide a blooming orchid plant at the front desk of the Towne House, the month you bring the plant, you will receive 1 bonus ticket to be redeemed at the orchid society meeting.

This is a win - win for all of us. The Towne House always has a beautiful orchid plant on display which many of the resi-dents enjoy seeing, plus you get a bonus ticket for the 1st drawing of the raffle table. In return The Towne House provides “free rent” as well as coffee and water each month for our meetings. This saves our society over $750/year.

Sign up schedule is at the back table.

VCOS has a WEB PAGE! http://vcorchidsociety.weebly.com/ A big THANK YOU to Jon Wallace for setting this up!

Advertisements


Place an ad in the VCOS newsletter: 1 month—$5.00; 10 months—$42.50

Diamond Award Recipients: 2008: Rich Pisor 2009: Jean Everett 2010: Jeri Bond 2011: Sherrie Basham 2012: Marian McWilliams

2013: Jim Sloniker 2014:Charlie Uvari 2015: Jen Poulakos 2016: Ralph Ramiriz

Sign-up Sheets: Please sign up to bring refreshments or plant-of-the month and support our society. The sign-up sheets are at the back table with Jean Everett. A blooming plant is needed every 2 weeks.

The TowneHouse does not charge VCOS for the use of the room in return for a blooming orchid at the front desk. Hopefully, everyone can help out during 2017.

Field Trips/House Tours for 2017 If you would like to visit nurseries, orchid growers, members’ growing areas, etc., please inform Jean Ever-ett, Event Chairwomen and she will try to coordinate field trips. If you would like to volunteer to host VCOS

Thank You to Jean Everett I would like to thank Jean for printing out the newsletter and posting the VCOS Newsletter to members who do not have email and providing newsletter input. Jen Poulakos, Newsletter editor

Ventura County Orchid Society C/O Jennifer Poulakos 3917 Ocean Drive Oxnard, CA 93035

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