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JANUARY 1984
THE CIVIC GARDEN CENTRE GARDEN TOPICS & EVENTS NEWSLETTER
MESSAGE TO MEMBERS by Gordon D. Wick, Executive Director As we start a new year, [ am prompted to reflect on our accomplishments during 1982, my first year as your Executive Director. I want to thank all our Civic Garden Centre staff for the team effort they put forward in not only keeping the building operational, but also making the C.G.C. a functional and enjoyable organization. 1983 provided a continuous stream of challenges to be met. We can look forward to many more -challenges throughout 1984 when our facilities will be host to such major events as the Garden Club of Toronto’s Spring Flower and Garden Show and the S. Ontario Orchid Society show. Each of these major events brings many people to the C.G.C. for the first time and as an organization we need to be ready with a full fledged membership promotion. Adding a sense of vitality to our membership newsletter will be an ongoing goal. I am pleased to have received
many complimentary notes
and phone calls about Trellis. When I came, we took over the editing, typesetting and layout of the newsletter within the Civic Garden Centre. This gives us much greater flexibility in being able to add late breaking news
as well as controlling the emphasis of our editorial content. With these clear benefits however come many extra hours of staff production time and although we have been able to utilize volunteer help to a limited degree we are striving for a greater volunteer involvement in such areas as gathering and writing more specialty gardening articles. Our Trellis shop has taken a great deal of my time over the last year but sales are up from budget, and we are now underway with successful volunteer advisory buying committees.
We have resolved our staffing in the shop and I am pleased to welcome Jackie Brisby as our full time shop attendant and manageress (5 days per week). Jackie’s hours will include two Saturdays or Sundays per month to ensure our most knowledgeable staff are available during the peak activities often falling on weekends. I also want to welcome Judy Boon to our Trellis Shop staff. Judy started in mid-November three days per week. She has accepted the challenging job of book buyer and as time permits she will also familiarize herself with the balance of store stock and procedures so that she can alternate with Jackie in extending the shop supervision to the maximum. I want to express my very deep gratitude to Dorothy Whiteman, our volunteer co-ordinator, who has doubl-