KELSEYVILLE, Calif. – The Clear Lake Trowel & Trellis Garden Club honored its new 2012-13 officers during the organization’s annual installation of officers and potluck dinner held June 19 at Riviera Country Clubhouse in Kelseyville.
These new officers embody this year’s theme of “Exercise your Passions: Flora, Friends, and Fun.”
They represent a group of individuals who not only share a common love, and promotion of, amateur gardening in Lake County through their CLT&TGC affiliation, but bring the benefit of their myriad life experience and stellar volunteerism to other local organizations as well.
New President Leanne Harvey taught high school at Kelseyville High and Inter Mountain High, a one-room high school and independent study for the Kelseyville Unified School District for more than 32 years.
She also helped local families learn to become healthier through her work with Sutter Hospital’s “Healthy Kids Are Contagious” project, and she now teaches Pilates at the Wellness Center.
Other local organizations Harvey participates in include: Lakeport Women’s Civic Club, Friends of the Library, Therapy Dogs Inc. and The Lake County Land Trust. She is a previous Lakeport Kiwanis Club board member and a past president of the Lake County MADD.
Many Friday mornings, Harvey and her 112 pound yellow Labrador, “OurKnee,” a registered therapy dog, can be found attending the local Library Story Hour. She says that “the generous, energetic spirit of each member” is what makes this club so special for her.
The office of vice president will be shared by Hans and Carol Dobusch, who both also taught in the Kelseyville School District for many years.
Carol Dobusch has taught drama at the eighth grade level and junior college level as well. Many community members have seen her in theater productions. Recently she was the director of “The Wizard of Oz.”
Hans Dobusch is a master gardener, a bicycle enthusiast, and has a wonderful home garden. He walks up Mount Konocti regularly, and in the fall he plants the lovely daffodils you might see there blooming in the spring.
Outgoing President Helen Turley will continue to serve on the board as secretary. She retired 13 years ago as Western Regional General Manager of Weight Watchers.
Her interests, together with gardening, include plant-based whole foods eating and cooking as well as reading. She also belongs to the Lakeport Women’s Civic Club, and she and her partner teach “The Five Agreements” and “The Enneagram” in the Healing House at the Wellness Center.
Turley greatly enjoys and appreciates “the wonderful and friendly Garden Club people who are willing to work so hard to support their clubs at all levels-local, regional, State, and National.”
Ginny Cline will continue to serve as treasurer. Originally from North Carolina, Cline moved to Lakeport in 2004. She previously served four years in the Navy as a radioman and post retirement from the federal government has worked in doctors’ offices, for Pepsi Cola, a billing supervisor, Terminex “and a few others.”
She says that she “loves Lakeport” and currently volunteers at the Soper Reese Theatre as an usher and ticket-taker. She is on the board of the senior center as well as working in their new thrift store. She is active in her church, takes classes at the local community college and spends lots of time outside and with her grandchildren.
Parliamentarian Jo Shaul has been active in the CLTTGC since 1976 and has held offices at the local, and district levels of the California Garden Clubs. Her home garden is filled with California native plants, and both she and her garden are an inspiration to all the club members. She is an expert flower arranger and helps new members develop their talents.
The club strives to learn and teach others about Lake County Gardening, California natives, flora and the environment.
Members share plants, plant knowledge, and take part in wonderful projects in the community including landscaping the newly opened Ely Stage Stop and County Museum in Kelseyville, donating trees to the Mendocino National Forest and civic beautification projects at Lakeport’s Library Park, Hartley Cemetery Chapel grounds, Lakeport Library flower beds and the Blue Star Memorial adjacent to the Veteran’s Building in Lakeport.
Additional gifts to the community include their November Chrysanthemum Show and March Daffodil Tea, as well as a Kabatin flower arranging group.
New members are always welcome and more information about the club is available at, www.CLTTGC.org or by contacting President Leanne Harvey at 707-263-0850.
The club meets at noon on the third Tuesday of the Month (except July and August) at the Scotts Valley Women’s Clubhouse, 2298 Hendricks Road, Lakeport.
Clear Lake Trowel & Trellis Garden Club is a member of the Mendo-Lake District, California Garden Club Inc., Pacific Region and National Garden Clubs Inc.
