Events

We held our biannual Board Member Election at this Annual Meeting this year.  Members were sent a slate of candidates along with their Biosketches 4 weeks before the meeting.  Twenty-five members attended and voted for the following Board members.   A week later at a Board Meeting, the Board elected the Officers.  Lynn Horrar resigned from the Board as of November 3.  We now have seven Board Members.  

Margaret Carreiro, President 

Hart Hagain, Vice President

Jacquelyn Hawkins-McGrail, Secretary

Barbara Berman

Julie Speedy, Membership Chair

Tess Lindsey, Treasurer as of Feb. 1 when Barbara Berman resigns as Treasurer 

Debbie Hoblitzell 

We also had a guest speaker, Catherine Graber, a teacher at a local Louisville Elementary School, Bloom Elementary.  Her talk title was:  Growing Wild: Cultivating Compassionate Children in Our School Garden

Biosketch: Catherine Graber is a longtime educator and lifelong learner with degrees from Vanderbilt University, University of Kentucky, and Spalding University. She serves as the Compassionate Schools Project Teacher at Bloom Elementary where her primary classroom is the school garden. Before joining Bloom’s faculty, she was an Implementation Coach for the University of Virginia in Jefferson County Public Schools as well as an elementary school teacher. Catherine’s passion is growing a kinder, more compassionate, world for all.

Everyone was more than delighted to learn about the detailed plans at this school for expanding their garden program with large amount funds they have raised from the Louisville Community.  Wild Ones Louisville has been offering advice and other forms of volunteer help for this project for the last two years.  We have also bought age-appropriate books for their library.