<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Hi Lorraine and all!<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I’m so excited for the conference, the workshops sound amazing.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I’ve set up a draft email in Mail Chimp. I have to do something for a few hours and then will try to complete a draft and send a test this evening.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Here’s the story list along with a few thoughts/questions:</div><div class=""><ul class="MailOutline"><li class=""><u class="">Quote needed</u> - something about our conference theme of connecting.</li><li class=""><u class="">Short Happy New Year message</u></li><li class="">Resources Houseplant Distribution</li><li class="">Registration is Open for the 8th Annual Conference (with link to web page)</li><li class="">Conference highlights with list of workshops.</li><li class="">Survey for Howard Rosing panel workshop - <u class="">should we set up a separate survey</u>? What are the questions? </li><li class="">Conference call for exhibitors, sponsors and volunteers</li><li class="">Photos for slideshow</li><li class="">Pests - Jumping worms and <u class="">European Pepper Moths</u>? This moth alert was sent by Mamie on Nov. 18.</li><li class="">Next CCGA coordinating meeting</li></ul><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Let me know what you think, thanks!</div></div><div class="">Amy</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto" class=""><div class=""><br class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">On Feb 2, 2020, at 7:01 PM, Lorraine Kells <<a href="mailto:lxkells@gmail.com" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer" class="">lxkells@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br class=""><br class=""></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class="">Amy, JW</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I've sent a shared file in drive with the time block of conference presentations. </div><div class="">I think it's best to go with title and description for website registration. Presenter photos and bios can go up as separate post, "Meet the Presenters."</div><div class=""><b class=""><br class=""></b></div><div class=""><b class="">"Sometimes the Questions are More Important than the Answers"</b></div><div class="">Howard Rosing, the moderator for the panel on health and wellbeing has asked </div><div class="">us to informally survey gardeners to determine what questions they might have for an expert panel of the sort I am asking him to moderate. We believe this will help him structure the panel so the panelists have time to present and the gardeners have time to question. </div><div class=""><b class=""><br class=""></b></div><div class=""><b class="">Jumping worm warning.</b></div><div class="">This very short video says it all. Creepy so don't watch before eating.</div><div class=""><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jrGnUFDXuyQ" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer" class="">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jrGnUFDXuyQ</a> <br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Still to come but not much of a write-up; just an announcement.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">CCGA Resources received a giant pothos plant and has propagated it and others for community gardeners. Pothos is one of the plants NASA deems an indoor air cleaner. There will be a house plant distribution Saturday, Feb. 22. Follow CCGA on Facebook for more information. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Photos can be provided </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">That's it for now.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div></div>
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