President's Message:


Matthaei Botanical Gardens
Institutes New Program To Offset Rental Costs

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     As you may have heard our rental fees for the auditorium are going to be raised in August. To help offset this new price hike the Gardens has developed a new policy. This new program is aimed specifically to help mission-related groups deal with the higher rental costs. If someone who volunteers at MBG wishes, MBG will credit the mission-related group of their choice the value of $11.00 for each hour they volunteer. At this time all of the volunteers who work with the orchids (all AAOS members), one AAOS member that works in the conservatory, and one sympathetic non-AAOS member who works with the fern collection will be declaring their hours to the AAOS. And because their total volunteer hours will be in excess of our needs, (based on previous years total hours), the Great Lakes Judging Center will be a beneficiary of their generosity as well. Neat, huh?

     We should all thank the following AAOS members for participating in this program: Joe Lum (who has all ready put in enough hours to carry January's and February's meetings), Christa Janecke, Bruce Loughry, Pat Loughry, Wendy Frisch, Harry Winter, Dottie Winter, Diana Borel and Alex Challis.

Connie Bailie


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