Upcoming Meeting


JOIN US FOR THE JULY MEETING MONDAY, JULY 12, 2010 7:30 PM PROGRAM: Ice Cream Social and SARS 49^th Birthday Celebration Our July meeting is always the best – just a relaxing evening with good friends, good foods, and good fun. Read on. This July will mark the 49^th anniversary of our charter. We will celebrate that milestone with our usual array of home-made ice cream and birthday cake. For more fun, we will combine this with a rose flea-market, of sorts. We’ve had four rose flea-markets, which were all lots of fun and very successful. We call it a “Bring & Buy” event – bring something to sell, and buy something to take home. What you bring should be good quality stuff, but something you no longer need or use. It will be an opportunity to pass along something old, and take home something new. All items will be sold as a silent auction, while your are enjoying your ice cream and cake. The Society furnishes the cake, and members bring the ice cream – preferably home-made, but Creamy Creations and Blue Bell are suitable substitutes. All proceeds will go into our treasury. Come to the July meeting for fun – ice cream, cake and shopping – an unbeatable combination ! WATER CONSERVATION: Mark Peterson, Project Coordinator, in the Conservation Department of SAWS was the guest speaker at a recent meeting of volunteers for the S.A. Botanical Gardens. Mark stated that, due to the excellent rains we’ve had recently combined with good conservation practices, SAWS does not anticipate the need for water rationing this year. That is certainly good news. However, Mark reminded everyone of the Year-Round Conservation measures that are always in place, and can be enforced. The main measure is: Irrigation systems and sprinklers are to be used only between 8 p.m. and 10 a.m., any day. Hand-held hose, drip irrigation, soaker hose or watering from a bucket may be used any day, any time. Regardless of the method used, however, the most efficient watering time would be before 10 a.m. After last Summer, we know how precious our water resources are. Many residents last year lost grass, their entire lawns, some landscaping and some major trees. On the other hand, many lawns, landscapes and rose gardens survived the severe water restrictions quite nicely because the owners watered very judiciously, within the limits of the restrictions. We hope we don’t have to go through that again, but we need to practice wise watering and wise water conservation.
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