Kusamura Club Calendar
May 2008
• May 16—Satsuki Azalea‑Jim Ransohoff (Special Time)
• May 29 – Special workshop with Peter Warren at the Planting residence 898 Colman Ave, Palo Alto
June 2008
• June 20—Working with Olives—Jerry Carpenter
• Board Meeting—TBA
July 2008
• TBA
August 2008
• Northern Collection Work Day instead of the meeting. See News section - TBA

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Other Events
Kinshu Bonsai Award
APPLICATION and SUBMITTAL:
All requests for information, application form, and rules, as well as material submittal should be directed to:
GSBF Bonsai Contest 2008

c/o Monte Weiss  
222 Grand Avenue  Suite E
Long Beach, CA  90803
monteweiss@lorilamont.com
562.897.1855

DEADLINE: Entries must be submitted with a postmark no later than July 31, 2008. RULES: Rules are the same as the previous year. Please note that any past Gold certificate winners are ineligible to enter.

May 31–June 1, Oakland, California—Bay Area Satsuki Aikokai: 14th Annual Satsuki Bonsai Show at the Lakeside Park Garden Center, 666 Bellevue Ave. Hours are 10am–5pm, Saturday and 10am–4PM, Sunday. Demonstration at 1:30pm each day using mature trees; conducted on Saturday by Rick Garcia, and on Sunday by Johnny Uchida. Large selection of trees on sale. For more information, call Bob Gould (925) 935-1914.

May 31–June 1, Modesto, California—Modesto Bonsai Club:  Annual Bonsai Show at the Doubletree Hotel Modesto, 1150 Ninth Street.

More Events
(from Golden State Bonsai Federation)

May 16, 2008 MEETING
Special Hours: 7–9:00pm Only— Demonstration and Workshop
This meeting falls on a day when the hall is needed as a homeless shelter and the meeting room must be CLEARED by 9:00pm. Please arrive promptly. We will need to contain any messes we make so that hall cleanup can be quick. 

7-8:00: lecture and demonstration of Satsuki techniques. 8:15-8:45 members to bring azaleas that they wish to improve as this will aid all club members observing various changes and ideas. 8:45–9:00 cleanup and out the door!

Show and Tell this month will feature your azaleas of all types.

Refreshments for May will be provided by: Alec MacLean and Lonnie McCormick.  If you cannot make it, please be sure to call for a replacement.

News
Officers!
The Nomination Committee chaired by Bill Scott and assisted by Barbara Murray and Janet Refvem will be presenting their slate of candidates for various board positions.  The new terms begin in June so we will be electing officers for the next season during break at the May meeting.

Special Event – Workshop Announcement!
A special workshop is being offered Thursday, May 29, 2008 starting at 9AM to 4PM at the home of John and Sandy Planting in Palo Alto. The workshop leader is Peter Warren, native of England, who recently finished an apprenticeship with Kunio Kobayshi of Japan. He has been a convention headliner and writes articles for Bonsai Focus Magazine. Please call John Planting for a seat at this event. There will be room for 6 or 8 people at the most for this exclusive Kusamura Club workshop.

Board Notice: The August outing this year will be a day at the Golden State Bonsai Northern Collection, as a work day for the collection. Many clubs go as a group to the collection to work in the collection doing grounds work, weeding trees, and general maintenance as needed. Kusamura will give its August meeting for this purpose. For those of you who have never been there or not recently at least, this will be a great occasion to see a crown jewel of the bay area and get a feel for volunteering at the garden.

GSBF District Trustee Elections
Within the next few weeks, Cary Sullivan, this year's GSBF Election Chairman, will be sending clubs nomination forms for the upcoming election. The following District Trustees in our northern California area are not eligible to run for their positions again, having served two 2- year terms:

District A, Art Tilles
District B, Lonnie McCormick

We like to encourage people to consider running for District Trustee. You'd be required to attend a board meeting at the annual convention, be active in bonsai, and other duties involve staying in touch with your District member clubs and bringing their situations, needs, concerns, etc. to the GSBF.  Contact: lindaferzoco@yahoo.com 

Golden Statements is Now Online!From Bob Hilvers:

“I writing you because you probably know people interested in bonsai and suiseki who don't subscribe to Golden Statements but might benefit from, or just enjoy, the exposure. For that reason I packaged this pdf version of Golden Statements so you can share it with anyone who'd like it. It is free and iit s current. Any club that distributes a newsletter is encouraged to provide members with these links.”

The new online version offers video and requires high-speed internet to download. See the online version of Golden Statements at: http://www.gsbf-bonsai.org/goldenstatements/

Tree of the Month

Juniper Virginiana in the Tokonoma at the 48^th Annual Bonsai Show was presented by our longest term member. Thanks for sharing your tree with us.

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