07/17/2026
What a nice surprise...despite a stormy evening 28 people came out to the July 13th Pawpaw meeting. Rain or no rain, Suzie, Jim and Amelia unpacked all those library boxes for our meeting display. As usual Sara and Jeannie provided tasty spread for our social breaks. Members brought in a native plants that need new homes.
Often we rely on experts from other organizations to provide programs, but this evening it was all Pawpaw power!
Up front and center, our own home grown talent presented a lively jam packed program! Melissa stepped in on short notice to present a program on our remarkable local conservation history beginning with Audubon and a love of birds. (It was proof that Melissa wears more than one talented environmental hat... minus all the pretty feathers we were happy to see on the series of bird photos she shared with us.)
Sande promoting the Chapter's new Invasive Plant brochure, gave the "Plant of the Month" talk suggesting (without Power-Point) that Wild Coffee is a great AlterNative to invasive red-berried Coral Ardesia.
Wearing more than one hat, VP Barb not only introduced our speaker, but presented a great mural-like art project that Pawpaw members are "commissioned" to do for display at Asclepias Acres Nursery.
As usual Chapter President, Karen, not only prepared power point agenda and calendar of upcoming events to carry us through the meeting, but she filled in as this month's Library Spotlight book report.
It was so nice to see all the pre meeting set up volunteers, as well as all the chair stackers and table folders at the close of the meeting! It does take a village.
