2023

EAST CENTRAL DISTRICT - FGCM

88TH Annual District Meeting & Awards Luncheon

“Plant, Preserve and Protect Our Environment”

Thursday, October 12, 2023

Greenbriar Hills Country Club-12665 Big Bend Blvd.

                                        8:30 am –   Set up for Market Place                   

                                9:00 am –   Registration opens

                             9:30 am –   10:30 am The Market Place opens

                             10:30 am – 12:00 pm – Business Meeting and Awards             

                             12:30 pm – Luncheon

                             1:30 pm -   Message from our State President- Beverly Wattenbarger and Installation of New Officers.

                                     Dress code: Country Club Casual

                             The lunch menu includes:

                              House salad.

                              Chicken Marsala.

                              Garlic mashed potatoes & seasonal vegetables.

                              Rolls and Butter.

                              Apple pie.

                              Coffee, ice tea, and water.

                              The price for our meeting and luncheon event will be $40.00 each.

                              Please send your reservation and payment no later than Friday, September 22, 2023

                                Checks payable to: East Central District

                                Mail your checks to our treasurer...

                                   Karen Halla

                                    314 Tulip Dr.

                                    Webster Groves, MO 63119

                                   Name:_____________________________________

                                   Garden Club:_______________________________

                                   Amount Paid:_______________________________

                                   Food Allergies:_____________________________

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                             By popular request we will have the ‘Market Place’ this year. 

                             Your club can get one table for $35 or two tables for $50. 

                         Tables are to be reserved and paid for prior to the opening of the market place. 

                          Checks payable to ECD.  

                          Reserve and pay for your club’s Market Place table no later than September 22, 2023. 

                          Contact: Linda Frey, lcfrey@hotmail.com  or  314-540-1962. 

                          All the money your club collects for sales stays with your club. Your only cost is the fee for the table(s). 

                          Please mail the monies to:  Linda Frey, 5801 Pebble Oak Dr., St. Louis, MO 63128-1411. 

                          Club please bring own table covering.

                              We need this information to be sure we have enough tables for all our fun events.

Calling all East Central District 

Executive Board and Board of Directors, 

All Chairman, All Club Presidents in ECD, Members at large.

Please mark your calendar for the 2023 ECD Fall Board meeting to be held on August 29, 2023. To be held from 9:30 am to 12:30 PM. The meeting will be held at the Moolah Shrine, 12545 Fee Fee Rd. St. Louis, MO 63146. The Board of Directors will meet between 9:30 a.m. and 10:00 a.m. The General Meeting will begin at 10:15 a.m.

Morning snacks and beverages will be served. Lunch is on your own if you so choose. Please bring your own cup for coffee.

All Chairman are asked to bring copies of your yearly report. If you wish you may send it electronically to lcfrey@hotmail.com .  If you wish to address the members, there is a 3-minute limit, and you must send your report electronically to Linda Frey, Recording Secretary, lcfrey@hotmail.com. So, your report can be added to the agenda. Send me your intent to speak electronically, ecddirector.clohse@aol.com,  so that I will put your name on the agenda.

If you have any old business or New Business to bring forth, please send the topic of your discussion and the heading it is to be placed under to me, ecddirector.clohse@aol.com .

ECD AUGUST NEWSLETTER - AUGUST ECD FALL MEETING

The ECD Fall Board Meeting will be held at the Moolah Shrine Temple, 12545 Fee Fee Rd. St. Louis, MO  63146, on August 29, 2023. 

The Executive Board meeting will be held at 9:30 am and the General Meeting will be held at 10:00 am.  Snacks will be provided. Please bring your own cup. All chairmen should either send their report to me, ecddirector.clohse@aol.com or let me know if you plan to speak. There is a 3-minute time limit on reports. Thanks! 

Slate of Officer Nominees

The nominees for elected officers for ECD are:

Director: Mary Bellrose, Forsythia and St. Louis, County Garden Clubs

Assistant Director: Gloria Whyte, Farm Trails and St. Louis, County Garden Clubs

Secretary: Jan Conant, Farm Trails Garden Club

Treasurer: Linda Pacino, Oakville Garden Club

Elections will be held during the October FGCM/ECD Banquet to be held on October 12, 2023. The banquet details are being finalized and invitations will be sent as soon as possible by email. 

Congratulations to our new FGCM President

Congratulations go out to our new FGCM President, Beverly Wattenbarger. Beverly’s theme is “Plant America: Leading the Way for a Greener Missouri”. The Presidents Project will be, “Let’s Talk About Water”. 

Planning your club’s yearbook?

The Summer edition of THE garden forum has arrived in your mailbox. This summer edition is full of important information that your club will want to include in your own garden club yearbook. Be sure to send all names and addresses to Jackie Reynolds, Circulation Mgr., on the appropriate form, so she can include them in her roster of recipients for THE garden forum. Send the forms to jreynolds452@charter.net. All members that have paid dues should receive a copy of The garden forum. 

“To Plant a Garden is to Believe in Tomorrow”

DISTRICT HAPPENINGS

WAY TO GO ECD!

Congratulations to the Fenton Garden Club, Forget-Me-Not Garden Club, Forsythia Garden Club and Oakville Garden Club for sending in pictures and articles about their clubs field trips, meetings, and projects to THE garden forum for the summer issue! 

Contact Me:

ECD DIRECTOR, Connie Lohse

3008 Marchbanks Place, St. Louis, MO

314-471-9365

Ecddirector.clohse@aol.com

East Central District

January 6, 2023

3008 Marchbanks Place

St. Louis, MO 63129

Dear ECD Executive Board, Presidents, and all Garden Club Members,

Happy New Year! I hope you all had a wonderful holiday and are now looking forward to a great 2023. I wanted to share with you a few ECD dates that seem to have been neglected to be sent out. I apologize for that. It is totally my fault! The Opening Meeting for the ECD will be held February 7,2023 at the Moolah Shrine Center. General meetings will begin at 9:30 am. The ECD Executive Board Meeting will be held on August 29, 2023, also at the Moolah Shrine Center. General meeting will begin at 9:30. The ECD Annual Awards Banquet will be held on October 12,2023. The venue has not been selected yet. You will be updated.

If you have printed your club yearbook and do not have the above dates listed, you will not be held accountable when the books are scored for yearbook of the year.  Please send your yearbooks to the following:

Connie Lohse, 3008 Marchbanks Place, St. Louis, MO 63129

Sue Reed 1019 CY Ann Drive, Town and Country, MO 63017

Mary Davidson Officer, 2359 12th street, St. Louis, MO 63104

Linda Houston, 4525 Sun Meadow Rd. Fulton, MO 65251

Some more dates you may need to be aware of are:

January 20, 2023, Smokey Bear Woodsy Owl Posters Due to Chairman

January 31,2023, Garden Forum Spring Issue deadline

February 1, 2023, Club President’s Annual Report due to District Director, and State Club ratings Chairman.

February 1, 2023, Club Yearbooks due.

February 7, 2023, ECD Opening meeting.

April 17 – 20, 2023, ECD State Convention

Where are the forms for all these items? Go to: FGCMO.ORG, Click the three lines, go to District Clubs, scroll down to Links, click East Central, click three lines go to Resources/links, scroll down to FGCM General Forms.

I hope you have found this to be helpful and not too confusing.

One final note, I am still taking a sabbatical due to health issues. Your Assistant Director, Mary Bellrose is stepping up as Director until I can return. Her e-mail address is:  weddings@fahrgreenhouse.com

Sincerely,

Connie Lohse, Director, ECD, FGCM, CD, NGC.INC