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          BAY AREA CARNIVOROUS PLANT SOCIETY BULLETIN
                         JANUARY 2004

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                      MEETING DATE CHANGE
                          Geoff Wong

Please note that the date for the Winter 2004 meeting has been
changed to February 28 (instead of March 13). The meeting room
at the Botanical Garden became available due to a cancellation,
which allowed us to hold the BACPS meeting on our preferred
date.

MEETING: FEBRUARY 28, 2004, NOON, UC Botanic Garden
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                         NEXT MEETING

Date:  February 28, Saturday
Time:  12:00 Noon
Location:  University of California Botanical Garden, Berkeley
Program:  Peter D'Amato and Damon Collingsworth,
                     "Into the Land of the California Cobra"

Peter D'Amato and Damon Collingsworth will be giving a slide 
show on their trip last fall to native CP bogs in northern 
California. Darlingtonia colonies were spectacular and the 
pitchers huge. Some of the sites had Drosera, Pinguicula, and 
Darlingtonia all growing together. You will come away inspired 
to make a pilgrimage this spring.

An approximate meeting schedule is as follows:

12 noon - Social, Display Table, Sale
1:00 pm - Announcements and Program
2:30 pm - Show and Tell, Silent Auction, Auction

To promote availability of interesting plants and other items, 
we encourage each member to bring one or two things for the
raffle, silent auction, auction, or sale.  Bring show specimens, 
too, for the display table.

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The University Of California Botanical Garden is located on 
Centennial Drive above the main U.C. Berkeley campus, between 
the Stadium and the Lawrence Hall of Science. There is a parking
fee and entrance fee. Once in the garden walk down the paved road 
to the meeting hall on your right hand side. For more detailed 
directions, please call the Information Center at 510-643-2755 
or consult their website (http://botanicalgarden.berkeley.edu/) 
or the BACPS web site (http://www.bacps.org/).

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                      NEWSLETTER EDITOR
                         Geoff Wong

It is my pleasure to welcome Bob Hole and Christie Fremon as 
our new newsletter editors.

Bob has been an enthusiastic supporter of
BACPS and helped us set up a BACPS internet store. As one of 
the staff at the Lindsay Wildlife Museum, Bob, along with Joe 
Mazrimas and Larry Logoteta, organized a very successful CP 
display at the Museum's Spring Garden Festival last year.

Christie is a long time CP enthusiast and finishing a degree in
Technical and Professional Writing.

Together they have already many good suggestions for the
Newsletter and Bulletin.

I'm looking forward to seeing how our publications evolve.

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                  FROM THE NEW GUY & GAL
                Bob Hole & Christie Fremon

Greetings fellow CP lovers. We're both enthusiastic about
working more closely with BACPS and working together
on the newsletter and bulletin. We've got ideas, Stephen (our
new Pres) has ideas, and together this should be an exciting 
time.

We're still working out details as to exactly who's doing
what around here. For now, and effective immediately, please 
use Bob's email address above for all newsletter and bulletin 
related correspondence. If you can put "BACPS" in the subject 
line of any email you send, it will move to the head of the line.

In the meantime, please join us in a rousing round of applause 
for both Geoff Wong who's been doing the bulletin and Greg Lum
outgoing newsletter editor.

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                       BACPS CALENDAR

January 23 Deadline for submissions to Feb Bulletin
January 23 Deadline for submissions to next newsletter
February 28 Winter Meeting: Peter D'Amato and Damon
                           Collingsworth speaking on California CP
                           bogs. U.C. Botanical Garden.

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                        BACPS CONTACTS

President Stephen Davis  
Vice-President Bill Baumgartl 
Secretary Judith Finn  
Treasurer Joe Mazrimas 
Newsletter & Bulletin Editors Bob Hole and Christie 
Fremon 
E-mail Distributor Bill Weaver 
Snail Mail Paul Bourbin  
Publicity Larry Logoteta 
Membership List Mike Ross
Auction Glen Rankin  
Auctioneer Peter D'Amato
Silent Auction Mike Ross
Raffle John Pizzicara   
Website Albert Huntington  
Business Manager Larry Logoteta 

Website: http://www.bacps.org
(visit our online store!)
Mailing Address: BACPS, 825 Bennington St., Manteca, CA 95336

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The BACPS Bulletin serves as a monthly forum for members to
make CP-related announcements: events, want ads, items for sale,
information sought, growing tips, etc. Submissions must be
received by Bob Hole or Bill Weaver by the 23rd of the month prior to
publication.

If you wish to be added or removed from the distribution list,
please contact Bill Weaver.

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