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| Click here to go to Feb 06 Click here to go to May 06 MinutesGoleta Valley Beautiful News January 2006 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 Don't know much about trees but want to learn more? Come to our all new Basic Young Tree Care Workshop on Feb 4, with a Project Learning Tree Workshop in the afternoon 1. GVB Community Service opportunities - General public welcome, especially jr.high to college students. No experience necessary. We provide tools, supervised training and refreshments. Please call 252-1952 At least one day in advance to volunteer and receive specific updated instructions about meeting locations, and potential rescheduling due to weather conditions.
January Residential - 6286 Momouth Avenue, Goleta 93117, residence of Richard Cutner and Anne Azia December Residential - 5594 Cathedral Oaks, Goleta 93117, residence of Alejandro Mora. 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 Feb 4 Basic Young Tree Care 2 Workshop - For those of you novices who want to know more about the basics of tree planting and maintenance, we again have enlisted the talents of expert arborists and urban foresters to explain the basics in just one Saturday morning. We have included all new material from last year's workshop, which attracted over 80 participants. The workshop is sponsored by the Central Coast Urban Forest Council and all of the South Coast 'Beautiful' organizations. Lunch is included and there is no charge, but you must register in advance. See the registration flier at the end of this newsletter. This workshop and the Project Learning Tree workshop require separate registration. Feb 4 Project Learning Tree Workshop - In one Saturday afternoon, teachers and environmental educators will learn curriculum-approved methods for incorporating tree and urban forest themed environmental activities into your lesson plans. Led by trainers from the Santa Barbara Botanic Garden and the Channel Islands National Park, participants will be provided extensive lesson plans and activities to try out and take with you. Lunch is included and there is no charge, but you must register in advance. See the registration flier at the end of this newsletter. This workshop and the Basic Young Tree Care 2 Workshop require separate registration. Goleta Valley Beautiful Insert in January 12 Santa Barbara Independent - Thanks to a Media grant from the Hutton Foundation, the Santa Barbara Independent will be insert a four page 'ad' about Goleta Valley Beautiful in the Thursday January 12 edition of the Independent. And thanks to additional contributions by GVB Board members Al Turnbull and David Fainer, it will be in color! We won't get a separate printing of the insert, so if you get one of the 40,000 copies of the insert, please hang on to it. It includes registration for many of our activities planned this year. Santa Barbara Foundation Awards GVB $10,000 for a part time Volunteer Coordinator/Trainer - The Santa Barbara Foundation awarded GVB $10,000 to initiate a part time Volunteer Coordinator and Trainer in 2006. We are looking for someone, possibly two people, with an interest in working with our volunteers, and who has an interest and knowledge about teaching others about trees and urban forestry. UCSB Associated Students Shoreline Preservation Fund awards GVB $500 for 2 intern positions - The UCSB student-funded organization awarded GVB two $250 scholarships for student interns during the fall and winter quarters. We are looking for someone to continue part time research work from January to April on the project to use General Plans as a means of defining trees as capital assets. Call 683-0121 for more information. California ReLeaf Awards GVB $1000 for 'Heritage Trees-The Next Generation' Program with Carpinteria Beautiful - California ReLeaf, a network of organizations like GVB throughout the state, has awarded GVB $1000 to work with Carpinteria Beautiful to create copies of Heritage Trees for planting in public areas. Tentative plans call for developing copies from the original trees, including Goleta's Witness Sycamore Tree at the Sizzler Restaurant, and the Sexton Flame Tree at Pacifica Suites. In Carpinteria, we will be working with the Wardholme Torrey Pine and the Portola Sycamore. Volunteers needed to help, call 683-0121. 2006 Neighborhood Beautification Sites - In the planning stages are beautification projects for the City of Goleta property near Tecolotito Creek next to Del Norte and Glen Annie Roads as part of October 21, 2006 Make a Difference Day. Also planned for beautification is a portion of the Kellogg North Open Space along Queen Ann Road and Kellogg on the September 16,2006 Day of Caring. These projects are still in the early planning stages. Community support and resources are essential, so your input is appreciated. Beautify Dos Pueblos High School - The Planning Committee will be meeting on January 9 at 7 in the school library to develop plans for maintenance days and projects with financial incentives for student participation. So long old friends - Jim Farr has announced he will be leaving his position as Editor of the Valley Voice. We have appreciated his continuing support of all things Goleta and we will miss his leadership. Keith Whigham, Devereux's Counselor who worked so well with the developmentally disabled clients at the Greenhouse and Growing Grounds, completed his last day at the Greenhouse. He'll be returning to school but we hope he can come back some day to help out again. March 4 California Arbor Day celebration at Girsh Park - Mark your calendars to attend a tree planting at Girsh Park, followed by a Tri-Tip barbeque sponsored by the Suburban Kiwanis. More details in next month's newsletter. Newsletter format - Many of our regular readers were having problems logging onto our website to read the newsletter. While you can still get the newsletter (and back issues) via our website, we'll return to sending it by e-mail.
4. Event results/kudos GVB Tree Planting and Care last month
Neighborhood Cleanups - The Nasons worked 6 hours and picked up 6 bags on 12/10 and 12 /17 along a trashy section of Hollister and Los Carneros Rd. 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 Paul Grayson. More volunteers needed. 5. Water Kings and Queens. - Anticipated winter rains should make supplemental watering unnecessary in January 6. Welcome New/Renewing donor members - R designates renewing member . Thanks to over 50 new donor members joining. There are still a lot of current members who we would like to hear from. Time for your first tax deduction of 2006! Business Sponsors (send us your 150 word ad and we'll include in a future newsletter) - Enerpro-R, Patterson/101Allstore-R, Toyota of Santa Barbara-R, Hollman Property Company (Magnolia Shopping Center)-R, Kitson Landscape Management, Inc-R, Michael Gartzke, CPA-R, Santa Cruz Market, Bill's Tree Care-R, Tierra contracting, Inc.-R, Isla Vista Bookstore-R, West Covina Nursery-R, Goleta Valley Chamber of Commerce-R Honor Tree Members - Beverly Sudman, Joan Hanna-R, Grace Baptist Church, Ken and Nancy Knight-R, R. J. Parker-R, Nicole Clancy, Kim Schizas-R, Robert Simon and Colleen Kegg-R, Claudia Worthen, William Laggren, Tomasita Miller, Karen Robison, Dr. E. R. Mitchell, Pam Swenson New Family Donor Members - Brent and Sally Kitson, Carol Dorman, John Hurley, Priscilla and Stanton Peale, Pamela and Michael Van Blaricum, Janet and Harvey Wolf, Renewing Family Donor Members -Celia and Ron Book, Joe and Margaret Connell, Patricia and John Coppejans, Diane and Al Zonana, Gordon and Mary Jo Durenberger, Carol Emslie, David and Patricia Fainer, Laura Funkhouser, Ed Graper, Elizabeth Kilb, Victoria and Ralph Kornahrens, Eric Little, Tami Mason, Helen and Bob McPherrin, Clare Miner-McMahon, Jean Paynter, Bruce and Ida Rickborn, Harlene Schwartz, Bernadette and Richard Temple, Gary Ross and Allison Thomas, Coleen and Len Van Nostrand, Ronal and Diane White, Joe Whitham, Al Turnbull, Greg Janee, Laura Manuszak New Supporting Donor Members - Lois and Stanley Abbott, Andreas and Maria Eggendorfer, Mark and Eve Giroux, Anna and Petar Kokotovic, Beverley and Gary Lee Renewing Donor members - Jean Blois, Bill Wallace, Rebecca and Peter Adams, Bonnie Freeman, Mimi and John Elder, Mike Eskenazi, Betty Jeppesen, Diana and James Kennett, Donald and Barbara MacCallum, Josephine Millet, Thom and Barbara Myall, Kenneth and Deborah Pontiflex, Robin Denny and Michael Powers, David and Diane Russell, Max and Shelly Ruston, Beverly Sudman, Eleanor Thomas, Virginia Turner, Doug and Ann Winter, Gordana and Srbislav Zivanovic. New Basic Door Members - Jeff and Bonnie Baker, John and Gail Bowen, Richard Callanan, Madelyn and Wayne Cole, Kathleen and William Crevier, Nancy and Donald Davis, Sharon Donohoe, Janet and Stephen Graham, John Hammerel, Dana and William Noyes, Kathy and Mark Piasecki, Marion Price, Curtis Roads, Katherine and Harlan Shaw, Kathleen Werner, Margaret Chapman, Kathleen Hendrix Renewing Basic Donor Members - Sam and Lee Alfano, Joan Bolton, James and Barbara Bonsell, Albert Borgaro, Thelma Bowser, Margie Brown, Scott Bull, Patricia and Edward Cassidy, Dennis and Marsha Cooper, Yvonne Degraw, Shirley Dettman, Tammy Dobrotin, Goleta Valley Historical Society, Janet and Paul Gripp, Dr. Gerald Groff, James and Marianne Henry, Helen Smart, Jera Janzen, Betty Jeppesen, Don Kendig, Arthur Kennedy, Denise Lockhart, Marilyn McKinney Martin, Verle McDougall, Charles and Patricia McPartlin, David and Barbara Meldrum-Taylor, Michael and Rebecca Miller, Sherry Mills, Robert and Joan Muhr, Robert and S. Catherina-Nelson, Bill Norton, Helene and Thomas Phelps, Harriett Phillips, Jerry and Patricia Richards, Evelyn Robbins, Paul Robillard, Katie O'Reilly Rogers, Alan Scholl. Vicki and Ronald Slocum, Haley Soderman, Micki Stern, Frederick Tschech, William Van horn, Connie and Danny Wynn, Doug Allard, Carolyn Cogan, Harry Hagen, Joan Hanna, Joan Williams New Donor Members- Judith and Burt Bernstein, Gail and Thomas Boehme, David O. Evelyn, Marsha and Richard Johnson, Sally and Johnny Jordan, Judith Loftus and Stanley Klein, Giulia Brofferio and Aaron martin, Mace Matiosian, Ambrosio and Jose Pacheco, Eileen Piatek, Patricia and Russell Redmond, Norma and David Shinoda, Rosemary and Robert Shull, Sonja and Al Todd, Elizabeth Gralewski Renewing Donor Members- Linda and Robert Anderson, Kathleen Beh, Mignon Bradley, Patricia and James Breyman, Gordon Dalbey, Joe Doyle, Margaret Fancher, Mary and Charles Fewell, Gerald and Lola Hyde, Robert and Mary Logan, David and Lorene Lynch, Jeanette and Robert Mustacich, Edith and Richard Potier, Nicholas and Sharon Priester, Kenneth and Diane Reyburn, Lydia Swanson, Thomas and P. Cezanne Totton, Janet O'Connor and Jeff Waxman Thanks for discounts/donations/reduced prices and services from Pacifica Suites, Camino Real Marketplace, CopyRight, West Covina Nurseries, Devereux of California, Helen McPherin for the snacks, the Goleta Valley Chamber of Commerce for the cabinets and computer (anyone handy with fixing a worn out hard drive?) and all of our business sponsors listed on our website www.goletavalleybeautiful.org. We appreciate the ongoing coverage of our events in the Santa Barbara News Press, The Santa Barbara 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 ___ $___ 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. To remove your name from this e-mail list, send a return email with the word 'remove' in the Subject Heading Click here to go top Goleta Valley Beautiful News February 2006 Office address: 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 Don't know much about trees but want to learn more? Come to our all new Basic Young Tree Care Workshop on Feb 4, with a Project Learning Tree Workshop in the afternoon 1. GVB Community Service opportunities - General public welcome, especially jr.high to college students. No experience necessary. We provide tools, supervised training and refreshments. Please call 252-1952 at least one day in advance to volunteer and receive specific updated instructions about meeting locations, and potential rescheduling due to weather conditions. You can also volunteer by sending an e-mail togvbvolunteer@gmail.com
February 2006 Residential - 6141 Stow Canyon Road, Goleta 93117, residence of Judy McClain. January 2006 Residential - 6286 Momouth Avenue, Goleta 93117, residence of Richard Cutner and Anne Azia, 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 - Feb 4 Basic Young Tree Care 2 Workshop - For those of you novices who want to know more about the basics of tree planting and maintenance, we again have enlisted the talents of expert arborists and urban foresters to explain the basics in just one Saturday morning. We have included all new material from last year's workshop, which attracted over 80 participants. The workshop is sponsored by the Central Coast Urban Forest Council and all of the South Coast 'Beautiful' organizations. Lunch is included and there is no charge, but you must register in advance. See the registration flier at the end of this newsletter. This workshop and the Project Learning Tree workshop require separate registration. - Feb 4 Project Learning Tree Workshop - In one Saturday afternoon, teachers and environmental educators will learn curriculum-approved methods for incorporating tree and urban forest themed environmental activities into your lesson plans. Led by trainers from the Santa Barbara Botanic Garden and the Channel Islands National Park, participants will be provided extensive lesson plans and activities to try out and take with you. Lunch is included and there is no charge, but you must register in advance. See the registration flier at the end of this newsletter. This workshop and the Basic Young Tree Care 2 Workshop require separate registration. - GVB listed twice in new phonebooks - After 32 years of not being in the phonebook at all, Goleta Valley Beautiful is now in the phone twice, once under our office at 5638 Hollister Room 200D, and second under the Goleta Valley Chamber of Commerce, who will forward calls to us. Now you have multiple ways to reach us! Our cell phone 252-1952, still remains unlisted since it is not ties to a residential location. Record breaking tree planting month - The 131 trees we planted in January broke our previous monthly planting record of 120 trees set back in February 2001, when we planted 120 trees. We had help from Bill Nolan and the California Conservation Corps to plant trees in the medians around the City of Goleta. In addition to time constraints, the CCC is more experienced at planting under hazardous situations in the middle of the road than our normal crew of volunteers Rosemary 'Zea' Bauer joins GVB Board of Directors - Rosemary Bauer, also known as Zea to her friends, joins the GVB Board of Directors this month. Zea works with the Los Padres Council of the Boy Scouts of America and she will be working to strengthen our links with youth groups in the area. Welcome aboard! We currently have one vacancy open on the Board of Directors. For information, contact President Laura Funkhouser at 683-0121. March 4 California Arbor Day celebration at Girsh Park - Celebrate California Arbor Day (technically March 3 on Luther Burbank's birthday) with a tree planting and Honor tree maintenance day at Girsh Park on Saturday March 4. We'll follow it up with a hot dog and hamburger lunch for volunteers at the Girsh Park Community Center.
4. Event results/kudosGVB Tree Planting and Care last month
Neighborhood Cleanups - On 1/14/06 the Nasons collected one 32-gallon bag full in 2.5 person-hours on Fairview from Holiday Hill to Cathedral Oaks, on Cathedral Oaks from Fairview to Los Carneros, and on Los Carneros. from Cathedral to the freeway. On 1/21, they collected three 32-gallon equivalent bags over 2.5 man-hours, along Cathedral Oaks from Santa Margarita to Los Carneros, along Los Carneros. down to the overpass and beyond to Los Carneros Way, along Los Carneros Way to Hollister, and along Calle Real from La Patera to the back driveway into Orchard. This week's specialty was 3 half-full gallon jugs of milk! On 1/28, they collected 2 equivalent orange bags in 3 person hours. They worked Cathedral Oaks from Santa Margarita to Los Carneros, down Los Carneros to 101, back along Calle Real to the last bend near the Highway Patrol, along Cathedral from Kellogg to Patterson, and down Patterson to about Parejo. Unusually heavy on empty cigarette packs this time. 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 Soumil Mehta and Dan Condon. More volunteers needed. Call 683-0121 5. Water Kings and Queens. - Please water young trees planted within the last two years! The anticipated winter rains were very light in January and indications are that early February will be dry too, which makes supplemental watering necessary. One deep watering (about 20 gallons-no runoff) every 2 weeks should be adequate. 6. Welcome New/Renewing donor members - R designates renewing member Thanks to our donor members--we don't exist without you. Members who have not yet renewed will be getting reminder calls. There is an unusually large number of late renewals this year. Please note that we provide donation receipts upon request. Benefactors Marc Bradley and Lori Roper-R Business Sponsors (send us your 150 word ad and we'll include in a future newsletter) - Community West Bank-R, Charles V. Eckert III-R, Bella View Windows-R, Merlyn Cummings-R Honor Tree Members - Elizabeth Malloy Family Donor Members -Lois and Stanley Abbott-R Supporting Donor members - Jane Honikmann-R, Goleta Engineering-R, Sue Brogan-R, Steve and Beverly Balash-R, Dan and LuAnn Condon-R, Basic Donor Members - Gerald Liponi-R, Betty and Lawrence Fitch-R, R. O. Sandow-R, Phil Walker and Cynthia Brock-R, Duke McPherson-R, George Relles-R, Jim Pierson and Melanie Jacobsen-R, Carol Thompson-R, James and Ella Markham-R, Linda Graver-R, Joyce Berger-R Donor Members- Charles and Margaret Hamilton-R, Liz and Robert Hasch-R, Lynn Reed and Marc Baragona-R Thanks for discounts/donations/reduced prices and services from Pacifica Suites, Camino Real Marketplace, CopyRight, West Covina Nurseries, Devereux of California, and all of our business sponsors listed on our website www.goletavalleybeautiful.org. We appreciate the ongoing coverage of our events in the Santa Barbara News Press (thanks to Marilyn and Karna), The Santa Barbara Independent (thanks to George -Great insert on 1/12!), and The Valley Voice (thanks to John).
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