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WINTER ROSE GET-A-WAY WEEKEND REGISTRATION:
Reserve rooms directly with Eden Resort Inn, 222 Eden Road, Lancaster, PA 17601.
Phone 717-569-6444. Rates are $92.95/room/night (up to four people per room).
Mention the PA/NJ District America Rose Society meeting to get the special room rates.
Reserve rooms by Jan 16, 2007!!!
Registration – Winter Rose Get-A-Way Weekend on Feb 16– 18, 2007
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Registration $ 15.00 each $_________
CR School Registration(New CRs)$ 10.00 each $_________
CR School Lunch $ 15.00 each $_________
Dinner London Broil $23.00 each $_________
(Saturday)
Poached Salmon $23.00 each $_________
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Make check payable to Penn-Jersey District and mail to Gus Banks, 117 Farmdale Road,
Mt. Holly, NJ 08060-3296
PENN-JERSEY DISTRICT MEETING
Harrisburg Pennsylvania
sponsored by the York Area Rose
Society
SEPTEMBER 19 TO 21, 2008
INFORMATION AND REGISTRATION
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REGISTRATION INFORMATION
Follow the link below to download a
pdf file with the printable
registration form
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(Ed note: the following appeared in the Summer edition of the Penn-Jersey District Newsletter, the
"Rose Vine".
How does the idea of spending a weekend with friends, talking about, looking at and generally enjoying
the best roses on the eastern seaboard get you? GREAT you say. We think so too. That is why The
York Area Rose Society has chosen the theme for this year's convention to be just that:
“FRIENDS AND ROSES"
We have planned something for everyone. On Friday afternoon there will be a Judges' seminar from 1
p.m. untill 5:15 p.m. The program is going to be on all of the recent changes in the Judges' Guidelines
with a special emphasis on the judging of collections. Bruce Monroe, as always, will have a well thought
out program with plenty of time for discussion. Now, some may think that this program is not for them,
not so. If you are a judge and even though you do not need to attend a seminar this year, the program
is well worth an early renewal. For those who are not judges, this program is equally valuable to you. I
have always said that if you want to know how something is to be judged, come to a school and see
what the judges are taught. It will make you a better exhibitor and may even encourage you to realize
that you too could maybe be a judge. Hmmmm…
Friday night we are having one of the two fabulous buffet dinners scheduled. The highlight will be the
District Award Presentations. The Hospitality Suite will be open for evening discussions and hanging
out.
And now onto the Show. The big event for Saturday. As we said, the theme is Friends and Roses.
As many of you know, last year we solicited from every society in the district, a nomination of someone,
something or some event that was special to your society. Each one of those recommendations has
been used to create the Arrangement Schedule of the Show. Come see what your fellow rosarians do
in their interpretive tributes to the Penn Jersey District and its' members. The full show schedule will be
posted on the website by the time you read this.
As soon as entries for the show close, we will be setting up an area for the entries of a special
horticulture class/exhibit. , This class is open to any individual, group of individuals or societies. There
is no limit to the number of the entries by an individual, group or society. The specifics of the class are:
a stool (foot, bar, bench, milk crate, step stool, step ladder) on which is to be exhibited at least three
mini/miniflora horticulture exhibits. If you have a small stool, maybe only a few exhibits will fit; if a step
stool, you might have ten exhibits. You're saying “What?” No you got it. Maybe you'll have a spray,
and /or stages and /or an open bloom, or maybe a single bloom, or single specimen or floater or mini
English box. In any event, as many hort exhibits that you can artfully display on a stool or standing
device will be the entry. The voting will be done by monetary donations all through the day and the
winner announced at the evening banquet.
The name of this class is HORT ON A STOOL and, of course, this is YARS way to have a special fun
memory class for our Betty Jolly who was famous for two things: her passion for minis and her need for
a stool to stand on to be able to judge the HT's. All the money collected from all of the entrees will be
sent to the ARS in a memorial tribute to Betty.
In the late morning during the judging of the show, Ken Bormann will be heading up a lively program.
Now there is a program not to miss. There will then be a break to get lunch before the Show opens.
After checking out all your blue ribbons at the show, you will be able to change the pace with two more
great programs. In the mid-afternoon, Terri Johns will be showing her winning ways with drying roses
and Gus Banks will be doing a program for the Consulting Rosarian Program.
For those who want to see what's going on at the Hershey Rose Gardens and ARS Test Gardens, they
are just minutes away from the hotel. Speaking of the hotel, it is the same wonderful site that YARS
used for the Mini National Convention two years ago. It is now called the Sheraton-Harrisburg Hershey
and is located across the street from last year's district convention site. Reservation Information is
included in this newsletter and on the YARS website.
Fr. Gervase will be saying Mass at 5 PM in the hospitality room. At 6 the social hour will start followed
by another great Taste of Pennsylvania buffet dinner and the awarding of the Show awards. Ken
Borrmann will again be featured as our banquet speaker. The talking and visiting won't end then
because we will all end up again in the hospitality room.
On Sunday, Elaine Adler will be presiding over our annual District Meeting. At the conclusion, no matter
which way is your direction home, there will be gardens to visit: North, South, East or West., we will
provide one more garden and rosey experience for you. You can make the grand tour of all or just hit
the ones in your direction. So, as the last rose of summer is visited (Monday, September 22nd is the
first day of Fall), we expect that you will have had one of those great, fun and relaxing weekends that
will linger long in your memory. Come join us and experience the best there is: a weekend of FRIENDS
AND ROSES ala the York Area Rose Society, “See ya on the 19th. “
Nancy Redington, YARS President.
Attention Attention Attention
HORTICULTURE JUDGING SYMPOSIUM ADDED TO THE DISTRICT CONVENTION
At the Denver meeting of the American Rose Society, the Board of Directors approved a major revision
of Chapter XIV of the Guidelines for Judging Roses, "Judging Challenge Classes and Collections." To
discuss the new guidelines and other topics of current interest, a Horticulture Judging Symposium has
been added to this fall's district convention.
The symposium will be held from 1:00 PM to 5:15 PM on Friday, September 19, 2008. Attendance at
the symposium will satisfy the audit requirement for horticultural judges. The next complete judging
school will be held next year at the 2009 district convention. For further information, please contact
Bruce Monroe, 302-478-5733, professor@katiegirl.net.
You can download a power point presentation on the changes by going to :
http://www.ars.org/Judges/JudgingChallengeClasses.pdf. You can also download a copy of the new
guidelines by going to: http://www.ars.org/Judges