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Officers:
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Toni Doty |
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Larry Sanford |
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Vice-president : |
Alexa Noel |
Show Chair: |
Pat June |
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Mark Paul, Ron Miller |
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Treasurer: |
Dana White |
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Linda Knab |
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program is Dixie McCulloch speaking on “Growing Vandas”. The =
beginner’s
class is on “Bringing In Your Plants” by Larry Sanford at 7:00
p.m. The refreshments are by Steve Helbling, Jeanne and Bar=
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Rhinehart. Raffle tickets are $1 each or 6 tickets for $5. Hospitality List – to bring
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Alexa Noel –
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Larry Sanford |
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No Meeting – Christmas Party |
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The Indiana-based orchid societies jointly hosted their fall show at the Indi= ana State Fair, Friday through Sunday, August 9-11, 2007. It's small but very interesting, housed in the Agriculture/Horticulture Building and sha= ring exhibit space with beekeepers, farm-raised vegetables and bales of hay. Steve Helbling, Jan Yates and Larry Sanford did a 25 square foot exhibit, featuring (the world's largest) miltonia, or so it seemed, which took the Trophy in its exhibit class but lost to Hoosier Orchid Company f= or the AOS Show Trophy. For reasons not known to the writer, our GCOS members did not take part in the watermelon seed spitting contest. Steve
Helbling's miltonia spectabilis var. moreliana 'Newberry' AM/AOS won three
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Internet The GCOS web site is http://www.garde=
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all members whose membership is current and to other orchid societies by
reciprocal agreement. Non-m=
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