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April 2007 All events are FREE unless noted Visit the web site for more information and current scheduled events |
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Artist of the Month: Jeanne Manzelli Workshop: Opening Your Rose Garden
Please call to confirm dates and times of tours as they are subject to change
Photo: John Mattia |
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Help Wanted!
How can you help at the park if you don’t know how to garden? We can show you! Or there are variety of other skills that we can use and ways that you can help. Read on for lots of interesting opportunities. It’s not just gardening!
Upcoming Events
Perennial Plant Sale May 19th 10am - 2 pm (Volunteers needed to help with plant sales)
June 22 – 24 (Volunteer to staff an information table, help with kids activities, give tours, more.)
Wednesday evenings June 27th through August 29th (Want to help? We need a sponsor.)
Photo: John Mattia
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Volunteer Planting Day. Saturday April 14th, 2007 9 a.m. to 12 noon.
We NEED YOU and your friends and your family and your co-workers…we need all of you even if it’s just for the one day!
Meet at the Rose Garden Gazebo. Bring your gardening gloves, hand tools, and a shovel if you have one.
Volunteer Planting Day is open to anyone who wishes to become a volunteer gardener in Elizabeth Park. Volunteers may choose to help for this one day only by planting rose bushes or sign up to adopt a rose bed or become a general weeder for the Rose Garden. Volunteers are also needed to sign up for the Rock / Shade Garden, the Perennial Garden, Tulip Garden and Annual Garden. This is also a great time to volunteer your administrative services to the Information Center in the park or sign up to volunteer for special events. For more information, please call the Friends of Elizabeth Park at 860-231-9443. We need you! If it rains, give us a call for the rain date 860-231-9443.
Free Workshop - Opening Your Rose Garden April 28 10 am in the Rose Garden Top |
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Another Day in the Park… Friends of Elizabeth Park Director |
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The spring flower show presented by the City of Hartford maintenance employees looked great in spite of the strange weather and mild winter. The Friends of Elizabeth Park raised over $5,000 for the care and maintenance of the park from the Spring Flower Sale. We’d like to thank everybody who came and purchased the flowers and to our helpful volunteers.
Did you know that 11,000 tulip bulbs were planted in the spring gardens? The bulbs were purchased by the Friends of the Park from donations and fundraising.
That was just the beginning of spring.
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We would really like to kick off spring with an army of volunteers. We need volunteers to adopt-a-bed in the rose garden, become a general weeder, work in the Perennial Garden, work in the Annual Garden, work in the Rock/shade garden and work in the Tulip Garden. We need a “librarian” type of volunteer to help organize our reference library at the Information Center. Be a tour guide. We need folks to volunteer at the Summer Concert Series and Rose Weekend and to top all that off we really need volunteers to recruit more volunteers and the biggest commitment of all…someone to organize the volunteer program. However, volunteerism is not something to get involved in on a whim. Only folks who are serious about volunteering should sign up. It is not for the half-hearted interest. The Friends of Elizabeth Park have a database of hundreds of volunteers. In reality, only a small percentage of those volunteers are active. We have been diligently working to get an accurate count of our volunteers and just how many hours our volunteers work. This is important as it could impact whether or not the City of Hartford hires new employees for Hartford Parks. So please, ask yourself with all honesty if volunteering in Elizabeth Park is for you. If at some point you realize that you don’t have time to volunteer in Elizabeth Park, please ask to be removed from our database. Top |
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With the growing popularity of these tours, more volunteer docents are needed to help give the tours. The Friends of Elizabeth Park gardeners and committee members will train you.
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Wanted: Volunteer Tour Guides
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It’s fun! |
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Concert Series Corporate Sponsorship Wanted!!!
The Friends of Elizabeth Park invites you or your company to sponsor the Elizabeth Park Summer Concert Series 2007. The Summer Concert Series event hosts 10 various musical groups every Wednesday evening on the Rose garden lawn from June 27th through August 29th. The concerts are FREE to the public and very well attended. Your sponsorship would be well publicized and appreciated by the community overall. To help be a part of this wonderful annual event or for more information call the Director of the Friends of Elizabeth Park, David Wilson at 860-231-9443.
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Sunday, April 22, 2007 2:30 - 6:30 pm Pond House
There will be over two thousand dahlia roots representing most of the show winning varieties. This is a great opportunity to pick up large numbers of tubers at very reasonable prices.
Dahlia roots will be sold both from bins at 10 roots for $20 and in a root auction for many of the hard to get varieties. The bins were emptied last year in about a half an hour so it is important to arrive promptly to take advantage of this bargain.
CT Dahlia Society website http://www.connecticutdahlia.com/ Top
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CT Dahlia Society Dahlia Root Auction
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Artist of the Month: Jeanne Manzelli |
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ARTIST STATEMENT
I have always been fascinated by balance and tension in design. Jewelry gave me an opportunity to design minimal elements for effect. When I moved to painting I did so because I was not good at it, and loved what painters could do beyond design, composition and color, to move people in really profound ways. At this point my imagination is caught by Hartford and the changes that bring its past and present into balance. Murals, print, and folding screens, are the Art forms that this interest is taking.
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April 17 — Club Meeting 7-9:30 pm Pond House Guest Artist – Robert Stevens
Meetings are usually held on the 3rd Monday of each month & are open to the public.
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The Pond House is now taking applications for part time summer work |
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He is looking for a special assistant to volunteer or a small group to assist him with this project. Interested gardeners should call Louis at 860-231-8823. In exchange for your services, the Pond House will treat you to lunch when you work!
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Reservations for Easter Brunch (April 8) & Mother's Day Brunch (May 13) are now being taken.
Click For Online Reservations or Call 860-231-8823 Enjoy breakfast items, specialties from the carving station, savory dishes, & dessert treats
See the Easter menu here http://www.pondhousecafe.com/Menu-Easter-Brunch.htm |
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April’s Tasty Tuesday theme is "Good Night Vietnam" Tasting menu for only $15.55
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Chef Hung Bui will feature a three course Vietnamese tasting menu every Tuesday in April. The menu is: Cha Gio (spring roll) Bo Kho ( beef stew) Banana Tapioca |
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The Friends of Elizabeth Park has helped the City of Hartford to care for the park since its incorporation in 1977.2007 is the Friends' 30th birthday! We look forward to celebrating with the City and all our park visitors.Call the Information Center at (860) 231-9443 for announcements, changes, and updates. Send e-mail to elizabeth_park@sbcglobal.net |
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