Another year has gone by so quickly that it is hard to realize that I am starting my 5th year as President of our Society. Over the past year a large number of our members have spent a great deal of time planning and preparing for the up coming Annual Meeting for District 17. We believe we have planned an exciting, entertaining and informative meeting.

We now need the balance of the membership to step up and help us run this meeting. Over the next few weeks we will be looking for volunteers to help set up and participate during the meeting. We are also hoping that a large number of our members will attend the AGM on Saturday April 24th at Mill Run Golf and Country Club.

Our membership has remained static this past year as we are 114 members, the same number as last year. Hopefully we can maintain or grow this number during the 2010 season. This brings me to my main concern for the club. We have a core group of volunteers who help to look after the gardens we plant and maintain in town. This group is getting older and we have not been able to find people to help them. We are also finding it difficult to get new members to come on to the club’s Executive. Without these groups finding new blood we are going to have problems running the club in the future.

I would like to thank all of the members who did volunteer to help this past year and look forward to seeing some new faces out this year...

Regards,

Rick Causton