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| Go to Dec 05 Newletter November 2005 NEW OFFICE SITE: 5638 Hollister Suite 200D Goleta CA 93117 Phone: 683-0121 Website; www.goletavalleybeautiful.org Mailing address PO Box 6756 Goleta CA 93160-6756 GVB cell phone 252-1952, E:mail kennethknight@cox.net Website www.goletavalleybeautiful.org California Urban Forest Council awards Goleta Valley Beautiful "Best Urban Forest Program 2005" 1. GVB Community Service opportunities - General public welcome, especially jr.high to college students - Nov 2,9, Tree Plantings & Maintenance- Wednesdays 8:30 AM-11:30 AM Call us for location. -Nov 16,23,30 Working with Certified arborist and supervised Work Training Program clients. RSVP 252-1952 - Nov 5 Tree Inventory - Saturday 1:30-4 Meet at Oro Verde Open Space at Cambridge and Via Solerno. Join UCSB Circle K volunteers in counting and measure trees in several parks. No experience needed RSVP 252-1952 - Nov 6 Tree Inventory - Sunday 8-11 Meet at Santa Barbara Shores (Small) Open Space at Santa Barbara Shores and Seagull Drives. Join Alpha Kappa Psi volunteers in counting and measuring trees in several parks. No experience needed RSVP 252-1952 Nov 12 - Tree Inventory - Saturday 9-12, 1-4 Meet at Evergreen Open Space at Evergreen and Brandon. Join UCSB volunteers in counting and measuring trees in several parks. No experience needed RSVP 252-1952 - Nov 19 - Tree Inventory - Saturday 9-12, 1-4 Location to be determined. Join volunteers in counting and measuring trees in several parks. No experience needed RSVP 252-1952 -Nov- Tree Species Identification - Volunteer experienced in local tree species identification needed to assist during November tree inventories. Call 252-1952 or send e-mail to kennethknight@cox.net for more information - Wanted Volunteer to assist in putting together a display case for the Goleta Valley Public Library. Call 252-1952 - Nov 12,26 Anti-litter cleanup - 9 to 11 AM Report litter problems to Don & Judy Nason of Cambridge Dr Community Church at 964-0436, and volunteer to help with clean-up crews on the 2nd & 4th Sat. - Ongoing Winchester Canyon Entryway Maintenance - Variable hours- NW Corner of Cathedral Oaks and Winchester Canyon -Assist in weeding site. No experience necessary. Tools provided. Contact Lauren Gleason at 685-2653 - Ongoing Develop your own neighborhood public area beautification project! Goleta Valley Beautiful will provide resources and expertise to youth groups and service organizations interested in developing tree planting, maintenance, educational and clean-up programs in public areas. Call 252-1952 to develop a project. - Ongoing Graffiti Cleanup - Report graffiti to Ed Graper at 964-7117 or e-mail edgraper@yahoo.com Contact Ed if you would like to help remove graffiti in your area. Supplies and training provided. - Ongoing Board of Directors Two openings for remaining one year terms (until 7/1/06) Call 252-1952 or send e-mail to kennethknight@cox.net for more information.
2. GVB Award of the Month November Residential -5585 Armitos Avenue, Goleta CA 03117, Tom and Mary Lou Miller Our November residential award goes to 5585 Armitos Ave. C, in Goleta. Tom and Mary Lou Miller moved into the Grossman Homes public housing complex in 1983 and soon lobbied to do their own landscape since they faced Kellogg, a busy thoroughfare. Now a landmark to passersby, many stop to look at Tom’s birdhouses that Mary Lou has decorated. While ailments keep Mary Lou out of her garden, their love of colorful displays, seasonal flags and holiday themes bring enchantment to Old Town October Residential- 7653 Padova Drive, Goleta CA 93117 Larry and Margot Durham, owners. You can nominate your favorite Goleta Valley Residential property by downloading a nomination form. Click here to see and download the nomination form For residential properties contact Bonnie Freeman at 683-1878, for all other categories (Multifamily residence, Sustainable Development, Home Owners Association, Preservation of Goleta Valley, Public/Institutional, Open Space, Shopping Center, Commercial Orchard, Open), contact Phebe Mansur at 685-2277 or call 252-1952. Look for articles in the Valley Voice and the SB News Press. 3. GVB News Tidbits -Goleta Valley Beautiful 2006 Membership Renewals - Membership renewal letters for calendar year 2006 will be mailed the first week of November. This is our only membership mailing, so please take this opportunity to renew your support. We are also contacting other members of the Goleta Valley community, so please excuse us if we have sent you more than one letter. If by chance we have missed you, please use the form at the end of this newsletter. -Goleta Valley Beautiful Partners with Albertsons to help our youth- When Albertsons shoppers link their Preferred Savings Card to Goleta Valley Beautiful's community Partners ID number 49001008145, Albertsons will make a quarterly cash contribution to Goleta Valley beautiful based on eligible purchases made by linked supporters. It is an easy way to help support Goleta Valley youth that doesn't cost you anything extra! Funds will be used for Arbor Day projects at Goleta schools, children's books for the Goleta Valley library, and community service projects involving at-risk boys. Check our website or www.albertsons.com. If you are already linked with another youth organization, ---Goleta Valley Beautiful Receives Best Urban Forestry Program 2005 from the California Urban Forests Council - At the Annual California Urban Forests Council Conference in Lompoc last month, we were delightfully surprised to receive the 2005 award for Best Urban Forestry Program. GVB was recognized for strong community support for a variety of urban forestry programs involving tree planting and maintenance, for our research work on establishing support for trees as part of urban infrastructure, and our educational and community service work with youth groups, at-risk boys, and developmentally disabled. - Goleta Valley Beautiful Office Location - In an effort to reach more Goleta Valley residents, Goleta Valley Beautiful now has an office at 5638 Hollister Avenue Suite 200D in Old Town Goleta. We are subleasing from and sharing an office with the Gaviota Coast Conservancy, which is within the offices of the Nonprofit Support Center. Office hours will be by appointment. In addition to our office we now have a phone number (683-0121) that will allow Goleta Valley Beautiful to be listed in the phone book for the first time in our 32 year history. We will continue to use our post office box mailing address for our mail communications, as well as continue with using our cell phone number as well. -Tree Inventory Project - Goleta Valley Beautiful volunteers are conducting inventories of the trees in the City of Goleta parks and open spaces to gather data for our research project on the long term benefits of trees. Amazingly, there has never been a complete inventory of the trees in City parks. This is a big undertaking, for example, there are over 800 trees at Stow Grove Park alone. If you have some time to contribute, please check our community service opportunities.
4. Event results/kudo - GVB Tree Planting and Care last month Trees- Species - Location - Date - Hours- Action 0 -Various- El Encanto Parkway -10/01/05 - 9 - Watering 0- Various - Devereux Greenhouse -10/4/05 - 12 -Maintenance 1 - Arbutus/Brisbane-Brandon/Cathedral Oaks-10/5/05-12- Planting-Maintenance 8 - Oak,Gingko-other Various in Isla Vista-10/8/05 -40 - Planted 2 -Soapbark,Fringe -Grace Baptist Church-10/12/05-15 - Planted 2 - Valencia, Apricot - IV/Stow Grove Park -10/22/05- 38- Planted, inventoried 0 - Various - Various - 10/26/05- 15- Treegator removal 0- Various - Stow Grove -10/29/05 - 8 - Inventory 0- Various- Winchester Canyon- Various -12 - Watering, weeding 0 -Various - Devereux Greenhouse- 12 days- 120- Repotting, Maintenance 13- Total Trees planted - 269 volunteer hours Thanks this month to tree workers Bob Lugo and the Work Training Programs Crew, the Western Farm Service employees ( Chuck, Bart and Jose in Oct) who volunteered a total of 44 Community Service hours at the Devereux Greenhouse and Growing Grounds revamping the irrigation system, to UCSB Interns Stella Faturos and Jamie Jones for assistance with grant applications and implementation, for the 10 Lambda volunteers who planted 8 trees in IV on 10/8, for the 9 Habitat for Humanity volunteers who planted two trees in IV and helped inventory hundreds of others in Stow Grove Park on 10/22, and Merlyn Cummings for providing tree measuring sticks for volunteer use during our tree inventories. -Neighborhood Cleanups - The Nasons picked up 3 big bags of roadside trash during their 10/8 cleanup, working Cathedral Oaks and Hollister. Don, Judy and their group do projects on the second and fourth Saturdays of the month. GVB will sponsor cleanups with your neighborhood groups at your request, just call 252-1952 Thanks also to Millie and Sal Castro of Forest Drive who pick up trash along Cathedral Oaks Rd every other day during their walks from Evergreen to Glen Annie. - Getting the Word Out - Thanks to all our Lemon Festival volunteers - Bonnie Freeman, Merlyn Cummings, Melissa Ta, Marc Bradley, Lori Roper, Scott Bull, Tami Mason and Phebe Mansur. Our days of retail sales are apparently over, but we still helped get word out to the community of what we do. We also had many helpers at the UCSB Sustainability Fair (Bonnie Freeman, Stella Faturos, Jamie Jones, Scott Bull) getting the word out in IV. Thanks! 5. Water Kings and Queens. - After our first decent October rain, GVB volunteers have been removing the Treegators around new trees for winter storage. If we missed your Treegator, please give us a call at 252-1952. If winter rains come as anticipated, supplemental watering shouldn't be needed till spring. An exception is for our plantings at Winchester Canyon. Although the trees may be able to take extended periods without rain, until the native plants are established, they may need watering every two weeks, depending on how hot and dry it is. 6. Welcome New/Renewing donor members - R designates renewing member, + designates exceeding minimum contribution for that category Honor Tree Donors: Grace Baptist Church, Beverly Sudman, Joan Hanna Special Donor: Goleta Valley Beautiful Board member Al Turnbull has provided Goleta Valley Beautiful with a very generous donation to allow Goleta Valley Beautiful awards to be published in the Goleta Valley Voice for the next year. Thanks for discounts/donations/reduced prices and services from Pacifica Suites, Camino Real Marketplace, CopyRight, Growing Solutions Restoration Institute, West Covina Nurseries, Kitson Landscape management for the use of their 1000 gallon water trailer and all of our business sponsors and Silent Auction donors listed on our website www.goletavalleybeautiful.org. We appreciate the ongoing coverage of our events in the Santa Barbara News Press, The Independent, and The Valley Voice. 7. 2005 Annual Donor Membership Information - kennethknight@cox.net Board of Directors: Laura Funkhouser-President, Lori Roper - Vice President, Doug Winter - Secretary, Tami Mason - Treasurer. Board members: Merlyn Cummings, Alan Cavaletto, Al Turnbull, Thom Myall, Kristen Amyx, Phebe Mansur, Alan Scholl, David C. Fainer, Jr., Scott Bull Executive Director - Ken Knight - Member California ReLeaf Network - Newsletter funded in part from a California ReLeaf 2005 Urban Forestry Education and Outreach Grant December 2005 NEW OFFICE SITE: 5638 Hollister Suite 200D Goleta CA 93117 Phone: 683-0121 Website; www.goletavalleybeautiful.org Mailing address PO Box 6756 Goleta CA 93160-6756 GVB cell phone 252-1952, E-mail kennethknight@cox.net Beautiful Annual Holiday Dinner, Thursday, December 8 5:30 to 8 PM Camino Real Cafe 1. GVB Community Service opportunities -General public welcome, especially jr.high to college students
Upcoming eventsDecember Residential - 5594 Cathedral Oaks, Goleta 93117, residence of Alejandro Mora. November Residential -5585 Armitos Avenue, Goleta CA 03117, residence of Tom and Mary Lou Miller You can nominate your favorite Goleta Valley Residential property by downloading a nomination form. Click here to see and download the nomination form For residential properties contact Bonnie Freeman at 683-1878, for all other categories (Multifamily residence, Sustainable Development, Home Owners Association, Preservation of Goleta Valley, Public/Institutional, Open Space, Shopping Center, Commercial Orchard, Open), contact Phebe Mansur at 685-2277 or call 252-1952. Look for articles in the Valley Voice and the SB News Press. 3. GVB News Tidbits - Goleta Valley Beautiful Annual Holiday Party - Take a break and come join us for a delicious dinner and cozy dinner with Board members and Goleta Valley Beautiful volunteers. For reservations, see the end of this newsletter. - Goleta Valley Beautiful Board Member Changes - Thom Myall, Goleta Valley Board Member/Urban Forest Committee Chair for the last three years, has stepped down from his position to spend more time with his family. Thom also organized our annual Goleta Valley Heritage Tree Tour, so he is leaving big shoes to fill. Thom will continue as our Webmaster. Bonnie Freeman will be moving from Committee Chair to Board Member. Bonnie heads our Awards Program and had been very active in school and neighborhood beautification projects. That still leaves us with 2 openings on the Board. - County Oak Specialist Hired - Lottie Martin has been hired by the Agricultural Commissioner as the Oak Tree Specialist for Santa Barbara County. Ms Martin will work with private and public landowners to implement the Santa Barbara County Oak Tree Program. She will be a speaker as part of our Basic Young Tree Care Workshop on February 4. You can reach her at 934-6200 or 681-5600 - Beautify Dos Pueblos High School - Despite trying conditions during construction, Committee members are funding student initiated projects to help clean up the campus and improve the landscaping, as well as long range planning. The next meeting is Monday December 12 in the Dos Pueblos High Library. - City of Goleta Street Tree Species Changes - The Design Review Board Street Tree Subcommittee is recommending several changes to the official list of tree species allowed on City public right of way. Additions include the Island Oak (Quercus tomentella), California Sycamore (Platanus racemosa), Catalina Ironwood (Lyonothamnus floribundus asplenifolius). Deletions include the London Plane Tree and the Queen Palm. - Grants Awarded - The Mid State Bank and Trust Foundation provided a $2000 grant to Goleta Valley Beautiful to help with our youth programs, and the Hutton Foundation awarded a Media Grant which will result in a January 12, 2006 four-page insert in the Santa Barbara Independent. We are honored to receive their support. -What is a Biltmore Stick? - A new gift offered to our Family level donors is a Biltmore Stick, which is a yardstick sized tool for measuring the diameter of trees. When you flip it over, it is a Merrit Hypsometer, which measures the height of trees. No batteries required. - Goleta Valley Beautiful 2006 Membership Renewals - Membership renewal letters for calendar year 2006 were mailed the first week of November. This is our only membership mailing, so please take this opportunity to renew your support. We are also contacting other members of the Goleta Valley community, so please excuse us if we have sent you more than one letter. If by chance we have missed you, please use the form at the end of this newsletter. -Goleta Valley Beautiful Partners with Albertsons to help our youth- When Albertsons shoppers link their Preferred Savings Card to Goleta Valley Beautiful's community Partners ID number 49001008145, Albertsons will make a quarterly cash contribution to Goleta Valley beautiful based on eligible purchases made by linked supporters. It is an easy way to help support Goleta Valley youth that doesn't cost you anything extra! Funds will be used for Arbor Day projects at Goleta schools, children's books for the Goleta Valley library, and community service projects involving at-risk boys. Check our website or www.albertsons.com. If you are already linked with another youth organization,, thank you for supporting them as well.
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Event results/kudos - GVB Tree Planting and Care last month Trees- Species - Location - Date - Hours - Action 0- Various- Oro Verde, Andamar - 11/5/05- 14- Tree inventory 0- Various- SB Shores, Armstrong- 11/6/05- 30- Tree Inventory 0- Various- Los Carneros Park- 11/12/05- 300- Tree Inventory 1- Magnolia- Grace Baptist- 11/16/05- 15- Tree Planting 0- Various- Yaple,Via Miguel,- 11/19/05- 20- Root Shields 8- Tipu, Ginkgo- Girsh, Yaple- 11/23/05- 18- Tree Planting 0- Various- Winchester Canyon- Various- 12- Watering, weeding 0- Various- Devereux Greenhouse- 12 days- 120- Repotting, Maintenance 9 - Total Trees planted - 529 volunteer hours Thanks this month to tree workers Bob Lugo and the Work Training Programs Crew (Bob returns to Devereux next month-we hope to still work with him), to UCSB Interns Stella Faturos and Jamie Jones for assistance with grant applications and implementation, for Urban Forestry Committee members Alan Scholl and Itai Shelem for working on various inventory and planting projects. - Highway 101 Landscaping Project - GVB and City of Goleta representatives met with CalTrans Landscape Architect Kathryn Brown to review the final design plans for a combined safety and landscaping rehabilitation of the Turnpike, Patterson, and Storke/Glen Annie Interchanges. We were pleased at CalTrans greater use of native and drought tolerant plants, and their sensitivity to local conditions. -Neighborhood Cleanups - The Nasons worked 3.5 hours and picked up 3 bags on 11/19 (no report on 11/12), working the usual section of Cathedral Oaks and Los Carneros, and revisiting Patterson from Cathedral down to University and along Cathedral west one long block from Patterson. Don, Judy and their group do projects on the second and fourth Saturdays of the month. GVB will sponsor cleanups with your neighborhood groups at your request, just call 252-1952 -City Park Tree Inventory continues - Volunteers helping with the tree inventories within the City of Goleta include 3 with UCSB Circle K, 10 with Business fraternity Alpha Kappa Psi's Xi Pledge class, and 100 from 3 states with Nu Alpha Kappa and their pledges. Thanks to all. 5. Water Kings and Queens. - Winter rains have been sporadic as late November, so supplemental watering will assist new trees planted this year. Please leave your hose on your tree at low volume (no runoff) for an hour or two until the ground is thoroughly moist to a depth of foot or two once every two weeks if there hasn't been any significant rain. 6. Welcome New/Renewing donor member - R designates renewing member, + designates exceeding minimum contribution for that category We have so many renewing and new members to list that we are concentrating our efforts at updating e-mail addresses. We'll list names in next month's issue. Thanks for discounts/donations/reduced prices and services from Pacifica Suites, Camino Real Marketplace, CopyRight, West Covina Nurseries, Devereux of California, CPA Debbie Quigley and all of our business sponsors and Silent Auction donors listed on this website. We appreciate the ongoing coverage of our events in the Santa Barbara News Press, The Independent, and The Valley Voice. 7. 2006 Annual Donor Membership Information- Clip here and mail to:Goleta Valley Beautiful Membership, PO Box 6756, Goleta, CA 93160-6756 Yes, I want to help Goleta Valley Beautiful's efforts to beautify and green the Goleta Valley. Here's my 2006 calendar year membership gift of: ___ $35 Basic - includes newsletter and invitations to special events ___ $45 Supporting - Includes a laminated original Goleta Lemon Association label lithograph ___ $65 Family - Includes a GVB Polo-shirt, or 4 commemorative labels, or 1 Biltmore Stick ___ $125 Business Sponsor - Includes business spotlight in our e-mail newsletter, & family member benefits ___ $190 Honor Tree- Includes membership and a handsome certificate sent to whoever you designate with plaque - Includes membership, a certificate and a plaque at the base of your tree ___ $1000 Benefactor - Includes 2 invitations to each: Annual Banquet, Heritage Tree Tour and Holiday Party + Honor Tree ___No premiums Please!, Use my total donation to support GVB $___ Donations - All contributions and memberships are tax deductible _______ Service membership - Please contact me about volunteering for the GVB community Visa/MasterCard number_______________________________ Expiration ____________ Name________________________________________________________________________ If Business, contact person __________________________________________________ Address__________________________________________________________________ City, State, ZIP____________________________________________________________ Phone_________________________________________________________________ E-mail (used only for Newsletter/GVB special events) GVB is a 501c3 nonprofit organization, federal tax id # 23-7392774 Goleta Valley Beautiful Office: 5638 Hollister Suite 200D Goleta CA 93117 Phone: 683-0121 Mailing : P. O. Box 6756 Goleta, CA 93160-6756 www.goletavalleybeautiful.org Cell Phone 252-1952 E-mail kennethknight@cox.net Board of Directors: Laura Funkhouser-President, Lori Roper - Vice President, Doug Winter - Secretary, Tami Mason - Treasurer. Board members: Merlyn Cummings, Al Turnbull, Bonnie Freeman, Kristen Amyx, Phebe Mansur, Alan Scholl, David C. Fainer, Jr., Scott Bull, Itai Shelem Executive Director - Ken Knight - Member California ReLeaf Network- Newsletter funded in part from a California ReLeaf 2005 Urban Forestry Education and Outreach Grant Board of Directors meetings at Pacifica Suites, 5490 Hollister Avenue, from 7:00 AM to 8:00 AM on the first Friday of the month. Our mission: To ensure and improve the beauty of the Goleta Valley through our 5 goal areas, (1) Urban Forestry Management (2) Neighborhood Responsibility (3) Business Responsibility (4) Education (5) Public Area Beautification. Download the Holiday Party Reservation form by clicking here Back to Top |
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