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Event Calendar 2008

January
15
Monthly meeting 6:00pm (5:30 for refreshments)
February
19
Monthly meeting 6:00pm (5:30 for refreshments)
March
8
Workday at Hwy 80 at 9:00am. Bring hoes, rakes, shovels, pruning saws, firm muscles.
 
18
Monthly meeting 6:00pm (5:30 for refreshments)
April
5
Workday at Hwy 80 at 9am or so. Bring hoes, hand tools.
 
12
Grow Midland Green Homeowner Workshop; 8am - 3pm; four lectures, lunch, bring questions and samples; at 2300 Butternut Lane (City of Midland Martin Luther King, Jr. Community Center); $10 fee; register before April 7; call Miles Dory, city arborist, for more info at 462-685-7366
 
15
Monthly meeting 6:00pm (5:30 for refreshments)
 
19

Workday at Courthouse at 9am or so; we're planting 600 plants; bring rakes, hoes, hand tools.

Permian Basin MG Plant Sale; 9am - 3pm at Horseshoe Multi-purpose Facility; north frontage road of I-20 east of Midland.

 
26
Annual plant sale at Coronado (big parking area across Hwy87 from Wal-Mart); 9am until ?; come early to set up
May
17

Garden tour and graduation ceremony.

 
20
Monthly meeting 6:00pm (5:30 for refreshments)
June
17
Monthly meeting 6:00pm (5:30 for refreshments)
 
28
Workday -- Spend an early hour cleaning up Heart of the City Park (8am) before moving to Hwy 80 / I-20 for grass cleanup.
July
(No monthly meeting. Stay cool.)
 
12
Cement Party at the Tarpleys. Learn to make cement planters in the shape and design of your choosing. Additionally, we plan to have a speaker on water features (for re-certificationl hours) and a pot luck for lunch (think about cool things like salads, cold cut tray for sandwiches, fruits, veggies, etc.). Time and details to be announced.
August
19
Monthly meeting 6:00pm (5:30 for refreshments)
September
6
Dallas Arboretum Master Gardener Day; talk by Jimmy Turner; free to MGs and families
 
16
Monthly meeting 6:00pm (5:30 for refreshments)
 
24
Ag in the Classroom -- all fifth-graders in Howard County learn about plant growth
 
24-27
Visit the Master Gardener booths at the Howard County Fair (Fairgrounds off of FM700, Big Spring). The theme this year is Hats Off.
October
11- 12
Stanton Sorehead Trade Days
 
21
Monthly meeting 6:00pm (5:30 for refreshments)
November
18
Monthly meeting 6:00pm (5:30 for refreshments)
December
No formal monthly meeting. Christmas potluck dinner instead.

 
 
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