<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,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Could you send a paragraph about the keynote speaker - I have his bio but thought we could include something about what he will talk about.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Also, could you send details about seeds (will there be a seed table) kids’ stuff, and anything else that’s new this year?</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I’m getting close with the newsletter!</div><div class="">Amy</div><div class=""><br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Feb 6, 2020, at 1:50 PM, Lorraine Kells <<a href="mailto:lxkells@gmail.com" class="">lxkells@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class="">Amy,<br class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Seeking details from Ellen, until then, here's all I have. <span style="color:rgb(28,30,33);font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px" class="">CCGA Resources has been propagating house plants like crazy, and the Resources team has taken cuttings for community gardeners and will make them available Saturday, Feb. 22. Follow us on Facebook for more details to come. </span></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Check with Angela and Cordia re:sponsorship in newsletter.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div></div><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Feb 6, 2020 at 12:54 PM Amy Olson <<a href="mailto:akeo@me.com" class="">akeo@me.com</a>> wrote:<br class=""></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div style="overflow-wrap: break-word;" class=""><div style="font-family:AvenirNext-Regular" class="">Thanks, the newsletter is almost ready. Here’s what else is needed:</div><div style="font-family:AvenirNext-Regular" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="font-family:AvenirNext-Regular" class=""><ul class=""><li class="">Resources Houseplant Distribution - date, time? need details and photo if possible</li><li class="">Registration is Open for the 8th Annual Conference (with link to web page) - need confirmation from JW that it’s live.</li><li class="">Call for sponsors and volunteers - who is volunteer coordinator? And do we want to mention sponsorship at all?</li></ul></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Feb 6, 2020, at 10:25 AM, Lorraine Kells <<a href="mailto:lxkells@gmail.com" target="_blank" class="">lxkells@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class=""><div class=""><div dir="auto" class="">Amy,<div dir="auto" class=""><br class=""></div><div dir="auto" class="">Registration fee is same as last year, I checked with Angela. Adults <span class="">$25</span> , students (no age stated) <span class="">$15,</span> volunteers <span class="">$15</span> but must check in with volunteer coordinator in advance for training dates /times tbd.I don't drive but free parking is on Jackson. More info. Check back closer to conference date.</div><div dir="auto" class=""><br class=""></div><div dir="auto" class="">Marketing??? What else do you need?</div></div><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Feb 6, 2020, 9:01 AM Julie Samuels <<a href="mailto:jsamuels1966@gmail.com" target="_blank" class="">jsamuels1966@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br class=""></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Yes that would be great - thank you!</div></div><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Feb 6, 2020 at 8:42 AM Amy Olson <<a href="mailto:akeo@me.com" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" class="">akeo@me.com</a>> wrote:<br class=""></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto" class="">Sure we can include this!<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">We could use the communications email address, could that work?<br class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">.…….…</div><div class="">amy olson</div><div class="">sent via iphone</div><div class=""><br class=""></div></div><div dir="ltr" class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">On Feb 6, 2020, at 08:30, Julie Samuels <<a href="mailto:jsamuels1966@gmail.com" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" class="">jsamuels1966@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br class=""><br class=""></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class="gmail_default">Could an invitation for being an exhibitor/vendor be included? I attached the one I will be sending out soon to past E/ V,s but it would be interesting to see who else would like to participate. Would something like this be ok? If so,is there another return address that could be used .instead of mine(:=(?</div><div class="gmail_default"> </div><div class="gmail_default"><span style="font-family:Cambria,serif" class="">"This year’s CCGA
conference will be held in the very fine Whitney Young High School </span><span style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-family:Cambria,serif" class="">211 S. </span><span style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-family:Cambria,serif" class=""> Laflin St, in Chicago. If you would like, y</span><span style="font-family:Cambria,serif" class="">ou might be able to host an exhibit table on the "Bridge" in the school and
share your valuable knowledge, resources and skills with many of Chicago’s Community
Gardeners that day! You can request an application from </span><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:Cambria,serif"> </span><span style="font-family:Cambria,serif" class=""> </span><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:Cambria,serif">???</span><span style="font-family:Cambria,serif" class=""> </span><a href="mailto:jsamuels1966@gmail.com" style="color:blue;font-family:Cambria,serif" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" class="">jsamuels1966@gmail.com</a><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:Cambria,serif"> ???</span><span style="font-family:Cambria,serif" class=""> and return it as soon as possible. There is limited space for tables ." </span><span style="font-family:Cambria,serif" class=""> </span></div>
</div><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Feb 6, 2020 at 12:12 AM Amy Olson via Communications <<a href="mailto:communications@chicagocommunitygardens.org" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" class="">communications@chicagocommunitygardens.org</a>> wrote:<br class=""></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div class="">Thanks Lorraine!<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I’ll tighten up the draft and send a test in the morning. Then we will be ready to go once registration is ready.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Do you have a source for the quote “plant dreams, pull weeds, and grow a happy life”?</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">We can include the jumping worms for sure.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Amy</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""><div class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Feb 5, 2020, at 9:33 PM, Lorraine Kells <<a href="mailto:lxkells@gmail.com" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" class="">lxkells@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class="">Amy,<br class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div class="">Here's a lead into a quote and new year message.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Many spent the early weeks of the new year reflecting on the year past, but we are gardeners; we are plant people. We more often look forward than back. We’ve already torn one page off a calendar and are eager to tear the pages until we can garden again to “plant dreams, pull weeds, and grow a happy life,”<br class=""><br class="">and then lead into conference theme</div><div class=""><br class="">Connection with plants and the environment has been an integral part of human culture. We make connections between things by finding some form of commonality among them and with us. This simple process starts at an early age in life, even without conscious thought. Connection encompasses feelings of belonging that give us a sense of place, of identification, being drawn to something. This year’s theme “Connections through Gardening: Plants, People and the Environment,” aims to explore and celebrate the interconnectedness of our shared garden work and to foster relationships and conversations that shape and support best practices for sustainable living and growing in Chicago. As we read through the proposals submitted, our presenters wrote workshops that read our intention back to us in their own words, and we saw our theme emerging in many ways, and we know you will find connection in our human and plant communities as deeply as they did.</div><div class=""><br class=""><br class="">Amy, </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Howard Rosing, the moderator for the panel on health is interested in fitting into our conference and is seeking out how he might structure the panel. He asked if we would <font class="">informally survey gardeners to determine what of the sort </font><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)" class="">questions they might have for an expert panel. So we are not asking questions; we want p</span><font class="">eople who get the newsletter to reply to me with the questions they might ask the panelists. I thought I worded it that way, no?</font></div></div><div class=""><font class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font class="">Erik said we should start sending him photos write away. As soon as this newsletter goes out and registration is up, I will reach out to gardeners. It takes a personal outreach, believe me. I did it last year.</font></div><div class=""><font class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font class="">The jumping worms are more critical if there isn't room for both. Again maybe March is better or even after the conference to make it more urgent in gardeners' minds.</font></div><div class=""><font class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font class="">Lorraine</font></div></div><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Feb 5, 2020 at 7:16 PM Amy Olson <<a href="mailto:akeo@me.com" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" class="">akeo@me.com</a>> wrote:<br class=""></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div 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=""><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 class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);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" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank" 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" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank" 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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