Aug 22nd, 2017 (Tuesday) Meeting

Program & Agenda 1

Show and Tell Winners 2

Announcements/Event Calendar 2-4

2017 VCOS Officers 4

Advertisements 5

Fair Photos 6 -7

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Volume 29 Issue 8

August 2017

The Ventura County Orchid Society (VCOS) will meet on Tuesday, Aug 22nd. The meeting location is the Ventura Townehouse located at 4900 Telegraph Road in Ventura, 7th (top) Floor.

Agenda:

6:30 PM Room Available: Set-up and Silent Auction 6:50 PM Cultural Session 7:15 to 8:15 PM Speaker 8:15 PM Break—Silent Auction and Plant Judging 8:30 PM Business Meeting 8:45 PM Results of Plant Judging Meetings will be held on the 4th Tuesday of the month at the Ventura Townhouse January through October. A Birthday din-ner is held the month of November.

Speaker: Bryce Augustine

Bryce is a long time member of the Santa Barbara Orchid Society and an American Orchid Society Judge. He owns and operates Monsoon Flora Or-chids (Monsoonorchids.com) which he established in 1991 and produces Paphs and Phrags in flasks, compots and seedlings.

Bryce is a 25 year veteran of the American Orchid Society and is an accredited AOS Judge. If you ev-er have the opportunity to do ribbon judging at the Santa Barbara Orchid Show, make sure you are on Bryce's team. It is such a wonderful learning experience. You will always want to be on his team!

Refreshments Reminder: Ralph Ramirez,

Virginia Wang

Sherrie Basham,

Jan Hunter

August Program: “Cruising Around the World Looking for

Orchids ”

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2017 July Show and Tell Winners

President’s Message and...

Dear Members, A big thank you to all who participated in our fair display, either by helping set-up and taking down, but most importantly to all who supplied plants. It was beautiful and we won First Prize and Best of Division. Looking ahead to our birthday dinner in November, what do you want to see hap-pen? Do you want to go somewhere else? Even though the Ventura Yacht Club is a great place to go and offers good food, is it too expensive? I will be asking for ideas of what you want to do and where you want to go, so be thinking about it. Jean Everett, VCOS President

1st: Bob Riggs, Brassia Var 3rd: Jim Kindig, Onc. Butterfly (papilio x sanderae)

2nd: Jim Kindig: CTSM, tene-brosum

Townehouse Front Desk Orchid: Thank you Janell Beck and Jean Everett

Orchid Society of Santa Barbara (OSSB) Annual Fall Orchid Show “Falling for Orchids”

November 18 and 19 at the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History

VCOS Library

Don't forget we have a fabulous library of Orchid books that can be checked out from our Librarian, Nancy Tristan. The listing of books is in the directory.

Thanks to Sherrie Basham for the images!

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Announcements

Mark Your Calendar JUNE

10-Jun: Green Thumb Demonstration

10-Jun: 15th Orchid Digest Speakers Day Huntington (Saturday)

27-Jun: VCOS Meeting—Jim Rose

JULY

14-16 Jul: 37th Annual Santa Barbara Orchid Estate Summer Open House—Cal Orchid is open too!

25-Jul: VCOS Meeting: Jerry Robinson

AUGUST

2-13 Aug: Ventura County Fair:

13Aug: Cal Orchid Picnic

22-Aug: VCOS Meeting: Bryce Augus-tine

SEPTEMBER

26-Sep:VCOS Meeting:

JANUARY

24-Jan: VCOS Meeting: Doug Overstreet

FEBRUARY

25-26 Feb: Pacific Orchid Exposition Orchid Show, Golden Gate Park, Hall of Flowers

28-Feb: VCOS Meeting: Jim Sloniker

MARCH

17-19-Mar: 72nd Santa Barbara Internation-al Orchid Show, Earl Warren Fair-grounds, “Orchid Mystique”

25-Mar: VCOS Board Meeting

28-Mar: VCOS Meeting: Tim Culbertson

APRIL

1-Apr: Green House and Garden Field Trip & Tour

25-Apr: VCOS Meeting : Kyra Rude

MAY

23-May: VCOS Meeting: Culture Session: Sloniker, Kindig, Saito

TBD-Sep: Fascination of Orchids Show and Sale

OCTOBER

24-Oct: VCOS Meeting:

NOVEMBER

4-5 Nov: 59th Annual Santa Barbara Orchid Estate Fall Open House—Cal Orchid open too!

TBD: Birthday Dinner

18 & 19-Nov: Santa Barbara Orchid Society Show at SB Museum of Natu-ral History- ”Falling for Orchids”

Congratulations VCOS

Our Ventura County Fair Display Won First Place!

AND Best In Division!

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President: Jean Everett (805) 642-4815 jeansflowers20@yahoo.com

1st Vice President: Lucy Saito acelarj@msn.com (805) 484-8880 & Sherrie Basham (805) 218-6876 rkd17@sbcglobal.net

Directors: Marian McWilliams mem-cwilliams@netscape.net (805) 870-4196 Penny Harvey Harveypen-ny73@gmail.com Jon Wallace jon.wallace@gmail.com

2017 Officers

Committees Librarian: Nancy Tristan nancytris-tan@ymail.com (805) 701-8208 Hospitality: Jean Everett (805) 642-4815 jeansflow-ers20@yahoo.com Newsletter Editor: Jennifer Poulakos jenpoulakos@ gmail.com (805) 479-6721

2nd Vice President: Janell Beck janellb1957@gmail.com (805) 643-3361 Acting Treasurer Carl Rhoads Open Position

Secretary: Jan Hunter (805) 654-8381 jh9patch@yahoo.com

Ventura County Orchid Society has a FaceBook page! Please visit our FaceBook Page—search the Face Book website with “Ventura County Orchid Society”. The page is updated monthly with the speaker information. Please visit the page and enter your comments. Our FaceBook page is edited by Jen Poulakos and Brigitte Campbell.

Announcements (cont.) Reminder: TOWNE HOUSE FRONT DESK ORCHID PLANT As of January 1, 2016, if you sign up to provide a blooming orchid plant at the front desk of the Towne House, the month you bring the plant, you will receive 1 bonus ticket to be redeemed at the orchid society meeting.

This is a win - win for all of us. The Towne House always has a beautiful orchid plant on display which many of the resi-dents enjoy seeing, plus you get a bonus ticket for the 1st drawing of the raffle table. In return The Towne House provides “free rent” as well as coffee and water each month for our meetings. This saves our society over $750/year.

Sign up schedule is at the back table.

VCOS has a WEB PAGE! http://vcorchidsociety.weebly.com/ A big THANK YOU to Jon Wallace for setting this up!

2017 VCOS Annual Dues $25 for a single member and $40 for member family

Please make checks payable to VCOS and submit to Jean during the meeting or mail to: Jean Everett, 4391 Vasser Street, Ventura, CA 93003. A Green Thumb Card and VCOS membership card will be distributed to active members.

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Place an ad in the VCOS newsletter: 1 month—$5.00; 10 months—$42.50

Diamond Award Recipients: 2008: Rich Pisor 2009: Jean Everett 2010: Jeri Bond 2011: Sherrie Basham 2012: Marian McWilliams

2013: Jim Sloniker 2014:Charlie Uvari 2015: Jen Poulakos 2016: Ralph Ramirez

Sign-up Sheets: Please sign up to bring refreshments or plant-of-the month and support our society. The sign-up sheets are at the back table with Jean Everett. A blooming plant is needed every 2 weeks.

The TowneHouse does not charge VCOS for the use of the room in return for a blooming orchid at the front desk. Hopefully, everyone can help out during 2017.

Field Trips/House Tours for 2017 If you would like to visit nurseries, orchid growers, members’ growing areas, etc., please inform Jean Ever-ett, Event Chairwomen and she will try to coordinate field trips. If you would like to volunteer to host VCOS

Thank You to Jean Everett I would like to thank Jean for printing out the newsletter and posting the VCOS Newsletter to members who do not have email and providing newsletter input. Jen Poulakos, Newsletter editor

Honorable Mention; Jim Kindig, Mormocyca coringens

Ventura County Orchid Society C/O Jennifer Poulakos 3917 Ocean Drive Oxnard, CA 93035