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Community
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- ARBOR DAY - |
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National
Arbor Day is the last Friday in April. Canyon Crest Garden Club
celebrates Arbor Day by ceremonial plantings close to that date in
April. Thus far, our Club has planted California Pepper trees at
Rancho Canada Elementary School in Lake Forest, Biloxi Crepe Myrtles and
Brisbane Box trees along the Oso Creek Trail, Liquid Amber trees in
Montbury Park and Sycamore trees in Applegate Park. Our club has
also honored Mission Viejo City Landscape Architects with a CGCI award
for their outstanding landscape design for the new city library.
The presentation was made by the CGCI President and Landscape Chairman
and attended by the Mayor and City Council.
In this photo, a California
Sycamore tree was planted at Applegate Park in Mission Viejo in
celebration of Arbor Day - 2008.
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De Portola Elementary School - |
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Canyon
Crest Garden Club donated $250.00 to the school garden so that they can
purchase supplies.
Members
will volunteer in an as needed basis to assist in teaching garden
skills. |
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- FLORENCE
JOYNER OLYMPIAD PARK -
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Members
working to maintain the roses at Florence Joyner
Olympiad Park.
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The Canyon Crest Garden Club
helped to plant and maintains the 300 plus roses at Florence Joyner
Olympiad Park.
"This
garden, in collaboration with Canyon Crest Garden Club, a member of
National Garden Club, is an ongoing educational project. Members
volunteer their time and talent tending the roses, bringing beauty and joy
to the residents of Mission Viejo."
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- Garden Therapy
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The
Garden Therapy Team is privileged to provide floral arrangements to
hospice patients through Hospice Care of the West. Pictured are a
few of the arrangements that are created each month by gardening club
members. (Click to enlarge) The
Garden Therapy Team supports Habitat for Humanity
and provides monetary support for projects sponsored by
Heifer International.
In addition, we help our members with gardening chores on an as
needed basis.
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ARTES
DE LA VIDA
(Arts of Life)
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A
ten-year community project created by the City of Mission Viejo as an
extension of the recently completed “Tierra Nativa – Celebration of
the Native Land”.
Mission Viejo
’s commitment to the environment will resume as this new event
will blend the Arts and the Environment. The program will continue
to be celebrated as the City’s Earth Day, Arbor Day and Volunteer
Connection Day and will also partner with the Imagination Celebration of
Orange County. As in the past, residents will also have the
opportunity to assist in landscape renovation through planting.
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National Garden Week -
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Every year communities,
organizations, and individuals nationwide celebrate gardening during
National Garden Month. Gardeners know, and research confirms, that
nurturing plants is good for us: attitudes toward health and nutrition
improve, kids perform better at school, and community spirit grows.
Informational displays
and floral arrangements are placed throughout the community to promote the
positive attributes of gardening.
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- GREAT
PARK -
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Canyon
Crest Garden Club members volunteer at the various Great Park events
throughout the year. Pictured are Canyon Crest members Harriett
Behrens, Paddee Neff, Amy Inoue and Sharon Smith are pictured with Peggy
Goldwater-Clay (far right) at a Great Park awareness event.
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- PENNY PINES -
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The
national forests in California cover some 20 million acres, or about 1/5
of the state. That is equal to an area just slightly larger than the
state of South Carolina . Stretching from the Mexican border to Oregon ,
these forests include a variety of terrain and vegetation types.
These
areas of great beauty and majestic stature are plagued by divesting
problems, such as natural and man-caused fire, pests and disease. These
cause vast depletion and destruction of the national forests in
California .
It takes
thousands of firefighters and hundreds of pieces of specialized
equipment working long hours to control these blazing infernos. Fires
like these leave total destruction in their wake.
As
destructive as fires are, disease and insect infestation destroy seven
times more forest vegetation annually than fires because forests pests
are scattered and not easily detected, so are harder to control.
In time
some land may recover naturally. Penny Pines provides a helping hand. It
is a conservation program in which everyone can participate.
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