Medomak District
· District Director, Kathleen Filtranti,
Elm Street, Topsham, ME 04086
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The meeting gavel used by Bath was originally used by Justice Oliver Wendall Holmes and presented to them by his niece, Dr. Louise Tucker.
Medomak District Report
GCFM Fall Conference,
26 October 2011
Hello, I am, Linda Redman, the new Medomak District Director. We have an exciting and energetic group of garden clubs in our district. We have approximately 525 members in the five clubs with club memberships from 45 members to 150 members. Our clubs are stretched along Midcoast Maine from Topsham to Bath to Wiscasset, down the peninsular to the Boothbay Region, and then all the way to Camden.
After reading about all the projects each club does, I was amazed by how engaged all the clubs were in their communities. Each club in the district works to give annual camperships or scholarships or donations to their communities at a cost of approximately $27,000. They volunteer their time in designing, planting, and maintaining public gardens, memorial gardens, period gardens at historical sites, children’s gardens, and serenity gardens.
They decorate their town’s libraries, streets, welcome signs and traffic triangles with flowers, hanging baskets, window boxes and wreaths. They grow, dig, divide, weed, clip, mulch, water,….. Plan, create, share, brainstorm, buy, talk, laugh, and sometimes rest!!!
The cost of all this to the community is PRICELESS!!
Every one of the clubs in our District has plant sales in the spring with many of the plants coming from members’ gardens. Every one of our clubs work with seniors, children, community leaders, and our friends and neighbors in our communities in one way or another…We have made our communities more informed, more beautiful, and a better place to live.
In addition to the many activities that all the clubs have there are a few unique projects taking place in each of the clubs.
The Topsham Garden Club spreads the word about their club with a display at the Topsham Fair
The Bath Garden Club particularly enjoys decorating a tree at the YMCA Festival of Trees. They also have a Junior Garden Club, a Kindergarten Art Show, and they support children’s gardening by supplying gardening books to the library.
The Wiscasset Club does something that no other club in our district is doing by having a flower design class before every general meeting . They also seem to really enjoy planting and maintaining period gardens around many historical buildings.
The Boothbay Region Garden Club is excited about 8 new members joining since this July. Their horticultural round tables are an exciting addition to the general meeting. The annual Festival of Trees is in full swing. It is free to the community and you are all invited the first weekend in December to the historic Opera House in Boothbay Harbor.
The Camden Garden Club is nationally known for its annual House and Garden Tour that is in its 65th year…Wow. Their club is also embarking on a new 2015 Centennial of Camden Garden Club project complete with oral history interviews.
Our job in our communities is not done but we are certainly well on our way in the Midcoast…
