President's Message

Welcome to Kusamura’s 47^th Bonsai year. Your Board hopes that this year will be an exciting and educational one for each of you. 

Following our awe-inspiring bus trip to Sumigawa’s and the Redwood Empire Show we will kick of with a workshop meeting. Bring your newly acquired trees to start them on their future life as a bonsai. If you missed this year’s trip, bring a tree from a previous expedition.

October will feature a return visit from Italian master Marco Invernizzi. On Friday. October 20, we will have an all day workshop for 8 to 10 students at our home and the evening meeting will feature a demonstration by Marco. Marco was a student of Masahiko Kimura and has been winning prizes at numerous European shows, and appearing as a headline in conventions around the world. His English is excellent and he has a great sense of humor. It will be a great opportunity for us all!

We are still busy planning meetings for the rest of the year and if you have special programs in mind please communicate your thoughts to members of the board.

Put the dates of April 28-29 on your calendar for the annual show. We will be returning to our old venue at Mitchell Park. (Our old problems have been resolved.) Now is the time to pick the trees you will display and concentrate your main efforts this year on making them show ready. Think also about prepping your donations to the show sale so they will bring a good price (thus helping to pay for the show).

Finally, I want you all to think “volunteerism”, a theme I will repeat over and over during the year. Everything about your club depends on the active participation of every member. Currently we have a vacancy on the board, and the need for several committee chairs. We need a co-chair for the show (who will take over in’08) and members of the committee to put on and man the event.

And – we all need to support our northern bonsai collection in Oakland, as docents (regular and occasional) or helpers for garden maintenance, bonsai maintenance (after being trained). Talk to those who are doing it and find out how much fun it is – and again what an educational experience they had. Our club liaison for the garden is Lonnie McCormick.

Have a Great Bonsai Year

John Planting

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