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Goleta Valley Beautiful E-Mail News - September 2007Teachers-Register for 9/29 Project Learning Tree Workshop at SB Botanic Gardens - Click here to download the file
Two events on Sat. Sept 29- Devereux Day and Project Learning Tree WorkshopThe Devereux organization invites the public to attend the annual Devereux Day on September 29th from 9 am to 3 pm. Goleta Valley Beautiful has worked closely with Devereux and their clients over the last several years, and this is an opportunity to see what we've have been doing together at the Greenhouse and Growing grounds, as well as other aspects of Devereux's operations. For more information on Devereux Day, contact Janis Johnson at 968-2525 x202. Also on September 29 from 9 am to 3 pm, GVB Executive director and Certified Project Learning Tree Instructor will be leading a Project Learning Tree Workshop for teachers, environmental educators and General public members. Project Learning Tree is a source of interdisciplinary, hands-on instructional activities designed to increase student' awareness of the world around them, particularly as it relates to trees. Participants will learn how to use this award-winning environmental educational program in grades pre-K to 8. Participants will receive free copies of the 400 page Project Learning Tree Activity Guide and additional materials to help you add environmental education to your curriculum. The workshop will be held at the Santa Barbara Botanic Garden, 1212 Mission Canyon and will also feature Sally Isaacson, SBBG Director of Education. A pre-registration fee of $10 is required. The registration form is Click here or call Sally at 682-4726, ext 111 to register. For more information about PLT, visit www.plt.org August GVB Award -6188 Stow Canyon Rd./September 6676 Sueno RdThe August 2007 Goletta Valley Beautiful Award goes to Jonathan and Diane Bartel at 6188 Stow Canyon in Goleta. Working closely with Santa Barbara Garden Designs Landscaper Joan Bolton, a low maintenance garden was installed amidst a set of willow chairs on a high point. An Eastern Redbud stands guard over Convolvulus sabatius (ground morning glory), Sedum ‘Autumn Joy’, deepred Kangaroo Paws, Society garlic, daylilies, dry stream bed, and a Black-eyed Susan vine at the edge of this corner garden that holds Manzanita, Russian sage and much more beyond the lens. Photo by Bonnie Freeman. The September 2007 Award goes to 6676 Sueno Rd for a brilliant mixture of textures and color. Photo by Phebe Mansur. Nominations are open to everyone, including self-nominations. You do not need to be a member of GVB. For residential properties contact Bonnie Freeman at 683-1878, for all other categories (Multifamily residence, Commercial, Firescape, Sustainable Development, Home Owners Association, Preservation of the Goleta Valley, Public/Institutional, Open Space, Shopping Center, Commercial Orchard, Open), contact Phebe Mansur at 685-2277 or call 252-1952. Also check out Sarah Susanka's Sept 6 lecture in the first of a 6 part adult education class "Join the Green Revolution". For more info visit - www.sustainabilityproject.org Free Tree City USA Bulletins to MembersGVB is providing free to members copies of the informative Tree City USA Bulletins from the National Arbor Day Foundation. Each of the 45 bulletins is devoted to topics of practical interest, including #1 How to Prune a Young Shade Tree, #7 How to Save Trees During construction, #44 What Ails Your Tree? and 42 other topics. This offer is available to current GVB donor members and anyone volunteering for GVB in the last year. For each bulleting that you would like to receive, please send us a self addressed stamped 4" x 9" envelope to GVB, PO Box 6756, Goleta CA 93160-6756. We'll also include an informative brochure on how to plant a tree. These brochures are available through funding provided by the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection. For information on other bulletin topics call 685-7910 or send an e-mail to kennethknight@cox.net Major tree planting events kick off the fall tree planting seasonGVB's fall tree planting program starts with the September 15th United Way Annual Day of Caring. We anticipate up to 200 Westmont student volunteers to join forces with Dos Pueblos High and Beautify Dos Pueblos families to plant 40 trees, install drip irrigation, weedblock and mounds of mulch. The Native Daughters of the Golden West will also be present to provide goodies to the volunteers. Volunteers will be asked to park at the student parking lot off Alameda and walk over to the registration area by the Distinguished School sign in the Faculty parking lot. Because of the large number of volunteers anticipated, we could use the loan of gloves, shovels, hoes, pitchforks and wheelbarrows, all clearly identified with contact information written on them. The following week we'll have our first major tree planting of the year at San Marcos High. We'll be meeting at the end of the Stadium Access Road off Turnpike where we'll be planting 20 trees and installing drip irrigation. Two weeks later on October 6th, we'll be planting 35 trees at Mountain View School with Principal Bob Woods. For more information on our tree planting events, call 685-7910. UCSB intern Joey Lecky joins Ryan Schauland working at the Devereux Greenhouse this summer, and we said goodbye to Abby Horn and Adran Young. These internships are made possible by the UCSB Shoreline Preservation Fund. And after the third time our resident possum trapped himself looking for food in our open ended recycle can, we finally put a lid on it to keep him out. Tree Diversity Project ContinuesGVB volunteers planted 4 Forest She-Oaks (Allocasaurina torulosa) at La Patera School and one at Kellogg School as part of a Tree diversity Project in cooperation with the Santa Barbara Botanic Garden and local cities and schools. The objective is to reestablish species of trees that once flourished in this area, as well as introduce new non-invasive varieties that are appropriate to our Mediterranean climate. Thanks to California ReLeaf for their support of this project. New Board Member, August maintenance projects and other kudosFor the first time, a high school student has joined the GVB Board Directors. Dos Pueblos High Senior Melody Tan will act as a liaison to Dos Pueblos High as part of our many activities there. Check the GVB website for photos of all our directors and how to contact them. The GVB/Cambridge Community Church Litter Crew led by Don and Judy Nason spent 22.5 hours collecting 14 bags of roadside litter in August They will be taking the month of September off on vacation, but we suspect there will be a pile of litter waiting for them on their return.<>Martha and Gus Degassis, Trish Kreiss are keeping the Hollister Ave corridor watered and weeded each week. Some of the vines have already reached the top of the wall! We're looking for sponsors to help expand this project in response to requests from neighbors in the Via El Cuadro area. Also joining our administrative staff on a part time basis is Christine Hartsock, who will be assisting getting our paperwork in order. Work Training Program crews continue to provide lifesaving water to new trees in schools and County parks during August. Devereux clients and Evergreen Devereux Greenhouse volunteers Stacia and Adran Young worked 18 hours reinforcing earthen banks with railroad ties provided by Friendship Manor, mixing soil and finishing repotting last year's tree crop. And a special thanks again to Helen McFerrin who every couple of months loads up at Costco with portable drinks and snacks for our volunteers. She's an angel. back to top Goleta Valley Beautiful E-Mail News -October 2007October Is NeighborWoods Celebration Month
Annual NeighborWoods/Make A Difference Day Tree Planting Events in OctoberOctober is Neighborwoods Month, a national campaign of the Alliance for Community Trees(ACT) to promote urban forestry regreening, educational and training efforts. Goleta Valley Beautiful will be hosting several NeighborWoods events at Mountain View Elementary, San Marcos High and Dos Pueblos High. Our final October celebration will be on Saturday the 27th. The location has been changed from Girsh Park to Dos Pueblos High softball field entrance off Cathedral Oaks Road about 100 yards west of Glen Annie Rd. In addition to planting twenty trees, we'll be moving a small mountain of mulch, pruning young trees , installing irrigation lines and cleaning out stubborn weeds. Lunch will be available at noon. Tree planting season begins with 74 trees planted.GVB's fall tree planting program started with 74 trees planted,including 46 at Dos Pueblos, 20 at San Marcos and 2 replacement trees each at Ellwood,, Kellogg, GUSD District offices and San Marcos. Thanks to the approximately 200 volunteers at the September 15th, 2007 Day of Caring Project at Dos Pueblos High School. The volunteers planted 46 trees, spread 175 cubic yards of mulch, and weeded 2 quad lawns. In addition to Dos Pueblos High School students and families affiliated with Beautify Dos Pueblos, volunteer groups represented included Westmont College,the Towbes Group, the City of Goleta, Real Santa Barbara Soccer Club, AGIA Insurance, the Native Daughters of the Golden West, and Goleta Valley Beautiful. The 9/15 event would not have been possible without the support of Santa Barbara County United Way for the Day of Caring Coordination, the Santa Barbara County Solid Waste Public Works Division for mulch deliveries that took an entire day, to Marborg Industries for the donation of a roll off dumpster, to the California Department of Forestry Green Trees for the Golden State Grant for the trees, to the Shoreline Preservation Fund and the Devereux Foundation for support in growing most the trees and to West Covina Nursery for the remainder, to the Santa Barbara Foundation for volunteer training assistance, to the Santa Barbara School District, and to all those who gave their time and money to Beautify Dos Pueblos and Goleta Valley Beautiful so that we can make our schools a better place to live and learn. And thanks to the 23 volunteers who contributed 68 service hours to plant 20 trees at San Marcos High School on Saturday 9/22. The 14 Coast Live Oaks and 6 Catalina Ironwood trees were planted along the stadium access road above parking lot A off turnpike Road. The oaks were grown from local seed collected in the Ellwood area, and grown at the Goleta Valley Beautiful growing ground in Isla Vista, while the Ironwood trees were raised from smaller trees provided by West Covina Nursery. Jaime with the San Marcos Grounds Crew and his assistant helped install the drip irrigation system to each of the 20 trees. The 9/22 project was supported through grants from the California Department of Fire and forestry, the Santa Barbara Foundation, the Shoreline Preservation Fund, and with support from Devereux Santa Barbara. Drinks and snacks were generously provided by the San Marcos PTA, with additional support from the Mason family. And on 9/29, 32 members of UCSB's Hermanas Unidas contributed 96 community service hours to improvements to the Devereux Greenhouse Ground Grounds, including constructing 200 feet of retaining walls, mixing soil, filling and moving pots, weeding and sweeping the grounds, mowing the lawns and installing house numbers on the 16 rows of trees. GVB Wanted -- Interns/Heritage Seeds/Wish ListINTERNS WANTED -We have an opening for a Fall internship at the Devereux Greenhouse, as summer intern Eric Sander is leaving us. These internships involve an average 4 hour per week work requirement working with Executive Director Ken Knight. The position includes a $250 stipend made possible by the UCSB Shoreline Preservation Fund. Send background information to kennethknight@cox.net, along with a short explanation of why you would be interested in the position. The position will be filled when a suitable candidate is found. Interns Nathan, Joey and Ryan are continuing their summer work into the Fall. HERITAGE TREE SEEDS WANTED - If you have access to a seed producing native Heritage tree (one that was here before European settlers brought into nonnative trees that hybridized with our natives), please give us a call at 6895-7910 so that we can come evaluate your seeds. We're looking for Coast Live Oak, Island Oaks, Walnut, Alder and California Buckeye seeds, among others.
Water Kings and Queens-Another month of watering!Despite the short rain in mid-September, the ground is still dry and your watering and caring for young trees should continue, although with the cooler weather, we can drop back to watering once every other week. We hope to remove Treegators back to storage sometime around the beginning of November. More tree diversity plantings, September maintenance projects and other kudos
Goleta Valley Beautiful E-Mail News -November 2007Everyone living on Catherdral Oaks Road, Magnolia Avenue, Redwood Way, Moreton Bay Lane and Walnut Park Drive are invited to join your neighbors in becoming a donor member of Goleta Valley Beautiful. Check your mail for the 2008 annual membership renewal. GVB Volunteer Opportunities-
November Events - Tree Plantings at Hollister & DP, Treegators, and Greenhouse plantingOur planned November 3rd tree planting at Camino corto was postponed to sometime later in Novbember/December due to dry weather. Its tough to plant in hard clay if it isn't softened up. We're bringing volunteers over to the Devereux Greenhouse that day to help get ready for our annual acorn plantings, and to help repot and reorganize protions of our 1500 tree growing grounds. Our big plantings of the month will be at Hollister and Dos Pueblos Schools, and at an Isla Vista Park (we haven't narrowed down which one yet). We'll take a break for Thansksgiving and come roaring back on December 1 planting 20 more trees at San Marcos High. Come join us. October a brisk month with 68 trees planted163 GVB volunteers contributed 440 community service hours as they continued their effort to green Goleta Valley schools by planting 68 trees,including 21 at Dos Pueblos, 19 at San Marcos, 26 at Mountain View and 2 at San Jose Creek. Organizations represented this month included Mountain View Elementary, Dos Pueblos High and San Marcos High student and teacher volunteers, UCSB Environmental Affairs Board, Hermanos Unidos, Circle K, Alpha Chi Omega, Delta Sigma Theta, and Gamma Phi Beta. Boy Scout Troop 4, Cub Scout Troop 109, the Native Daughters of the Golden West Reina del Mar Parlor 126, Team Depot and the Goleta Valley community. These events were made possible by generous grants from the Alliance for Community Trees, the Home Depot Foundation, Albertsons Partnership Program, the Goleta Home Depot Store Managed by Scott Lesan, the Santa Barbara Foundation, the City of Goleta Communnity Projects Grant Program, the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, and over 400 donor members of Goleta Valley Beautiful. Creek Week Tree Planting, Science Night FunGVB contributed two clones of the historic Witness Tree sycamore for planting along San Jose Creek as part of October 13th Creek Week Activities. Thanks to the City of Goleta for sponsoring the event, and Cecilia Brown for follow-up tree care. GVB Board Members Tami Mason, Zea Bauer, and Oscar Briones presented tree related enviornmental science projects to over several hundred children and their parents at the 10/25/07 Kellogg Elementary School Science Night. Do you know how to tell if a floating or sinking acorn is good to plant? Water Kings and QueensIf we get 1/2 inch or more of rain, we're hoping to pick up Treegators by the end of November. In the meantime, please keep watering. <> Martha, Gus,and Trish could use assistance in keeping the Hollister Ave corridor between Evonshire and Girl's Inc watered and weeded each week. Check it out, it's growing very well. <> Beautify Dos Pueblos has a highly organized watering crew to keep track of all the irrigation systems on campus. Jaime is overseeing irrigation installation at San Marcos High, and Goleta Union School District staff have been doing a superb job of keeping the trees watered. Citizen Pruner ProgramCalifornia ReLeaf has funded a training program to expand our efforts to teach local volunteers the fundamentals of pruning. We'll begin classes in November similar to our Citizen Pruner training from last February. Contact us for details at 685-7910. Annual membership renewalsLook in you mail for our one and only letter to you about renewing your annual donor membership in Goleta Valley Beautiful. If you like what you read about in this newsletter, help us keep it going with your financial support. We have a new thank you gift this year to family sponsors, a hansdsome forest green baseball cap with the Goleta Valley Beautiful logo embroidered on it in light green thread. One size fits most. If you misplace our letter, please download a form from www.goletavalleybeautiful.org. The interactive portion of our website isnit working yet, so you can't pay on line.
Carpinteria Historic Tree Project completed, New Greenhouse Volunteer and other news
November 2007 GVB AwardWe don't have an award this month because we didn't get the paperwork done. Although all of our awardees are visible from public right of ways, we still secure the approval of the awardee before giving an award. We also have to get a photo and write a press release. There are only so many hours sometimes. You can nominate your favorite Goleta Valley Residential property by downloading a nomination form at AWARD on this site You can also contact Goleta Valley Beautiful at 685-7910. Pick Up Stix Fresh Asian Kitchen fundraiser - Sunday, November 18, 11AM - 9PM
Print out Flyer & Menu here Your comments to kennethknight @cox.net will help us build a better communications link. To remove your name from the monthly e-mail newsletter list, please reply to this e-mail with the word 'remove ' in the subject. back to top Goleta Valley Beautiful E-Mail News -December 2007Thanks to all who have renewed their GVB donor membership for 2008. If you misplaced your renewal letter, you can find a copy on our website or call 685-7910. GVB Volunteer Opportunities-
December events -Tree Plantings at IV, San Marcos, DP and an Interchange planting In addition to the volunteer events listed above, Goleta Valley Beautiful is in the process of completing permits to plant 140 trees at the Los Carneros Interchange offramp as part of an Environmental Enhancement and Mitigation Project. Although this will not be a volunteer project (we're contractinbg with the Califgornia Conservation Corps) there are some transportation of materials that we could used some help with. Please call us at 685-7910 for more information. this project will complement a long -planned City landscaping project for the remainder of the Los Carneros Interchange. November GVB volunteers plant 67 trees and counting Thanks to Mark Broomfield and the 14 volunteers who contributed 44 service hours at the Devereux Greenhouse this past Saturday, November 3rd. Among the accomplishments were the repotting of approximately 75 one gallon redwood trees into five gallon pots. These redwoods will be planted at Stow Grove Park during Arbor Week, March 7, 2008. Thanks to the Engineers Without Borders, Environmental Affairs Board, Communication Associates, Circle K and other UCSB volunteers for helping to take care of these newly growing trees. Goleta Valley Beautiful thanks the 63 volunteers who planted 35 trees on Saturday, November 10th on the grounds of Hollister Elementary School, 4950 Anita Lane in Goleta Valley. The volunteers contributed 196 service hours and represented eight community groups including Hollister Elementary students and parents, Goleta Teen of the Year candidates, Rotoract, Santa Barbara City College Small Communications Class, UCSB Gamma Phi Beta, Pi Beta Phi, Circle K and the American Red Cross Club.
Goleta Valley Beautiful thanks the 60 volunteers who planted 21 Coast Live Oak trees along UCSB's Mesa Road on Friday afternoon, November 16th. The volunteers contributed 163 service hours and represented 12 community groups, including the UCSB Wellness Project led by Mark Shisham, Kappa Alpha Theta, Environmental Affairs Board, Alpha Phi, Alpha Kappa Delta Phi, Delta Delta Delta, Alpha Delta Chi, SBCC Small Communications Class, UCSB Restoration, UCSB Honors Program, CAB and general UCSB support. Goleta Valley Beautiful volunteers will complete the Mesa Road project with the planting of 19 more trees on Friday afternoon, November 30th from 2-5 pm. Thanks to Lisa Stratton, PHD of the Cheadle Center for Biodiversity and Ecological Restoration and her staff for the financial and technical support in implementing this project.
Goleta Valley Beautiful thanks the 95 volunteers who planted 11 trees next to the Elings Aquatic Center on the Dos Pueblos High School campus on Saturday morning, November 17th. The volunteers contributed 202 service hours and represented 10 community groups, including Dos Pueblos High students and families, The Beautify Dos Pueblos Committee, UCSB Hong Kong Student Committee, La Escuelita, Chi Delta Theta, Environmental Affairs Board, Kappa Sigma, SBCC Communications Group, Goleta Valley Beautiful members and community volunteers. In addition to planting the 6 species of trees (Island Oak, Big Leaf Maple, California Sycamore, Valley Oak, California Buckeye, Silk Floss Tree), the volunteers moved 51 cubic yards of mulch around the new trees and at the entrance to the new Performing Arts Facility along Alameda Drive.
Water Kings and Queens If we get 1/2 inch or more of rain, we're hoping to pick up Treegators by the end of December (sound familiar?) In the meantime, please keep watering. Citizen Pruner Program - coming in January! Volunteer news Mark Broomfield is picking up the slack that occured when our contract with Work Training Programs ended. He'll soon be joined by snowbird Dan Condon, who's back from the frozen north for a few months. The Nasons led trash crew spent 16 hours collecting 14 bags of trash on 4 different days in November. . Devereux clients, interns and volunteers Stacia Young and Jack Reifert are finishing our fall acorn plantings of over 1000 different local varieties. Now to keep the squirrels away. . New GVB UCSB Board member Lincoln Rideout joins the Board in December, to be followed soon with Jill Tiegs and Maia Raznik. . At the urging of the State Forester, the city of Goleta is preparing an application for a Tree City USA Award hopefully to be heard a the the last Council meeting of the year on December 17th. .
December 2007 GVB Award The December award goes to Jeff and Nancy Watson of 284 Vereda Leyenda in the Rancho Embarcadero area of Goleta. When AIA Architect Murray Duncan topped off their remodel with a beautiful portico, the Watsons’ stage was set to add a landscape. A natural design from Landscape Architect Robert Andrew Fowler allowed the Watsons’ to take on the contracting. Jeff did much of the stonework and plant installation, all the while checking with Nancy. Water conservation was a main concern so they limited a grassy area and installed wide borders of flowering white, yellow and blue plants. Birch trees, a Jacaranda and flowering Magnolia dot the garden. A path of ‘Aztec Gold’ stone, and a wall of Santa Barbara sandstone presents a welcoming setting against the nearby hills. You can nominate your favorite Goleta Valley Residential property by downloading a nomination form from this website. You can also contact Goleta Valley Beautiful at 685-7910. You do not need to be a member to nominate. Your comments to kennethknight@cox.net will help us build a better communications link. |
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