Fall District Meeting
October 25, 2008

Mt. Hood District had our Fall District meeting October 25, 2008 at the Hood River Community Building in Odell, Oregon.

There were three OSFGC officers present. President Sherry Cossey, 2nd Vice President Garnet Ascher and Recording Secretary Bertha Keith.

Our program was the "Return of the Designing Divas".  The last time we hosted the district meeting in 2006 we had Designing Divas and it was so well received we decided to do it again.

Last time we had OSFGC State President Marcia Kay Whitelock, Sue Kerslake, and Alfretta Spores as our Designing Divas.

This year OSFGC State President Sherry Cossey, 2nd Vice President Garnet Ascher and a retired Floral Shop owner, Suzanne Workman as our DIVAS. 1st Vice President Karen Brown had to cancel because of a bad cold. Suzanne welcomed the challenge.

There were 51 garden club members, 2 guests and 3 escorts for our Divas present.

Good time, great food and entertaining and educational program.

Check out the red (?) carpet!

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Head tables decorated with pedestal vases with floating dahlias, white painted red twig dogwood, beads and with Diva dresses.				Table center pieces were white painted red osier dogwood, colored cubes of oasis, colorful necklaces, dahlias and beauty berries.

Raffle table chairman Joann Gage and helper Carol Wells		Greeter Jackie Shaw and Garnet Ascher		Corsage Chairman Joan Benedict and Pam Crider
Raffle crew: Kay Lincoln, Joann Gage and Carol Wells		Mt. Hood District Awards Chairman Vickie Ward and Shirley Cheney looking at pictures of Odell pictures of the past year.		Erma Bryson
Carol Jones, Eva Piatt, Alta Bryan, Connie Pilcher, Trish Paige, Anna Nolan		Emilou Ely, Carol Jones, and Anna Nolen		Greeter Alta Bryan and Lauretta Piatt

Nancy Case and Azusa Suzuki		Katie Olson bringing in her design

Jackie Shaw People's Choice Winner	Katie Olson's design -Second		Jennifer Harty - Third		Mary Lou Larson - Honorable Mention		Pam Crider's lady bug basket

Joan Benedict and District Appreciation Award winner Erma Bryson		Dufur Valley President Violet Peterson award's Wanda Favorit for putting together the 2nd Annual District Garden Tour		Vi Peterson (Mary's mom) awards Mary Lindhorst, head of the Dufur Valley School Gardening Program (and our Mt. Hood Youth Gardening Chairman)

National Life Membership award winners Shirley Cheney and Erma Bryson,
presented by Naomi Frisbie

Books Chairman Pam Lago		Treasurer Barbara Essex, Asst. District Director Gwen Barrielleaux, Secretary Trish Paige		Katie Olson

Mt. Hood District Officers, Award winners and presenters Mt. Hood District
Chairmen and OSFGC Sherry Cossey and 2nd Vice President Garnet Ascher

Diva Escort Warren Wols (husband of Judy Wols) Designing Diva Suzanne Workman				Diva Escort Bob Cheney (husband of Shirley) Designing Diva Garnet Ascher		Diva Escort Fred Paige (husband of Trish) Designing Diva Sherry Cossey

Suzanne Workman deciding what she is going to do with a vase she has never designed in		Sherry started with the lovely roses and curly willow		Some of the plant material available for the Divas		Judy Wols assisting Garnet
Suzanne still studying what she wants to do. She has Cattails so far.		Members enthralled with the program.
		Sherry already onto her second design using painted dock and roses		Suzanne using solidago, Chinese Lanterns and laurel		Garnet completed three designs in record time. She cleans as she goes. Kept a very tidy table.

Sherry completes three using all her roses, laurel and some Chinese Laterns. She added her boa for a minute.		Garnet talked about studying Ikebana and why she used what she did. She likes to use what is available this time of year.		Suzanne tells us about why she did what she did.  In the first one she used laurel, Chinese Lanterns, yellow dahlias and orange roses. In the middle one she used, Beauty berry, horse tails and roses. In the large vase she used cattails, weeping cypress, horsetails and (love lies bleeding) amaranthus.