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Lizards available for adoption
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Judy and Sandy with lizards
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Members - Peggy Taylor and Ellen Gardner
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L to R: President, Peggy Taylor; Corresponding
Secretary, Marianne Newton; Historian, Ellen Gardner; Judy Miller;
Vice President, Elizabeth Moody; Treasurer,
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Tree Expo
October 25, 2008
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Our booth at the Tree Expo!!
Stacey Bealmear
(left) and Marianne Newton (right)
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Community Challenge Grant Tree Workshop
Tree Planting
Saturday, March 1, 2008
at
the Robert J. Moody Demonstration Garden
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Our new raised beds
before they were filled.
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Composting the straw bales.
Makes nice compost...
mixed some with the dirt
we put in the raised beds.
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In 2007, a Grant from the North End Rotary Club
of Yuma
provided benches and podium for the mini amphitheater
and sidewalk across from the Vegetable Garden.
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Barn Project Groundbreaking (From the Desert Gardener on July 6, 2006)
The following Tuesday, after the Ice Cream Social, when I got home
from the MGM
(Moody Garden Makers) Garden Club Meeting I received a phone call from Pat Cooper. She said
that she and Frank were
interested in helping us get that barn we want for the Moody Garden.
Of course we were thrilled to be able to proceed with our plans sooner than we
expected. We are so grateful to the Coopers for their help.
Frank Cooper is a native Yuman - born on October 6, 1914. He was raised on a farm at 8th Street and Somerton Avenue.
That property is now part of the University of Arizona Valley Experiment Station.
Over the years Frank has held many positions in many different service organizations. He has always been known for
giving back to his community.
Pat and her husband Allen
Martel came to Yuma in 1952. They had two children. So she was a busy working mother. She retired from the telephone company
in 1979 after 32 years of service. After retirement she was active with the Friends of the Library, ran the Republican Headquarters
for a while and continued to sing at her church among many other things.
Both couples were friends of Robert J. Moody and his wife, Elizabeth.
Frank and Pat just celebrated their eleventh wedding anniversary and at 91 and 75 years of age they are still involved
in the community. Although she says they are trying to retire - trying to say no - they are very busy people. They are
involved with Westerners, which is an extension of the Historical Society and they are involved with the Assistance League
at home. Frank repairs typewriters for them and she helps with sorting and preparing items for sale. She also makes lap robes
for whichever organization is in need of them.
Obviously
they are still giving back to their community in bigger ways, too. We are very pleased that Frank and Pat Cooper have chosen
to work with the University of Arizona Cooperative Extension and the MGM Garden Club on this barn project.
The ground breaking for the barn is going to be Tuesday, July 11, 2006 at
7 pm at the Robert J. Moody Demonstration Garden. You are invited to attend.
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Groundbreaking - July 11, 2006
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Under
construction
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Wait until you see...
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the new barn!
Marlena, Judy, Marianne,
Sandy and Ellen
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The barn in November 2007
The Agave area
in the front on the hillside and then the raised beds...
this was the day we put the trellis' in the one bed.
(Today, both beds have trellises.)
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Hermosa Garden Club
met us in the garden
this spring (2006) and
gave us a check for $100 for the
Robert J. Moody Demonstration Garden.
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$2000 from Pecan Grove Garden Club
in May
'06 for the Robert J. Moody
Demonstration Garden
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Marlena - Award
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Tree down in Moody Garden
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