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BAY AREA CARNIVOROUS PLANT SOCIETY BULLETIN
May 2004 Issue 2
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LOWRIE SEED LIST ORDERS DUE SATURDAY, May 29
If you got a copy of the Lowrie seed list at the last meeting
and have not put your order together, you should do so quickly.
We need to have the orders in hand by Saturday, May 29th. This
means you should probably send it by May 26th, or the 27th.
We don't want to wait as seeds are in limited supply and when
they are gone, they are gone. Since the order can only be
placed to Australia via snail mail, and we have to do a fair
amount of organizing of the order, we need your help to get
the order completed in a timely fashion.
Remember, it is $3USD per seed packet. There will be no shipping
charges to you as the BACPS will cover shipping. By combining
the order the club is saving each member over $20 in shipping
and mailing expenses.
We recommend you have some seeds listed as substitutions as
Lowrie may be out of some of the seeds.
You will be able to pick up the seeds at the next meeting in
September. Unfortunately, we will not be able to deliver indivi-
dual orders before then. You will also be able to place another
order at that meeting.
For those that miss this order opportunity, we will be taking
orders at every meeting.
Place orders for seeds only. Lowrie is no longer accepting orders
for tubers or gemmae. We can not order live plants either.
We are sorry that we will not be able to get the seed catalog out
to those that were not able to attend the meeting. The catalog that
Allen Lowrie sent out is a low quality photocopy, like many collect-
able plant catalogs, and scanning it so as to be readable creates a
file of over 13MB. OCR proved to be so inaccurate that it takes
nearly an hour per page make it readable. We are working on a solu-
tion for the future.
Please send your order with a check payable to:
Joe Mazrimas (Joe is the BACPS Treasurer)
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WHY DO YOU ATTEND BACPS MEETINGS?
Inquiring Minds want to know!
We have set up a web poll. Tell us why you attend the meeting and
see the results of our first web poll.
http://bacpsshow.homestead.com/BACPSQuestionnaireMay2004.html
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VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES
Plant SHOW CHAIRMAN: We still need a chairman to run the Sep-
tember Plant Show. This is a really fun event to put on, and is
really fun to organize. You will have the help of myself and the
board.
If you are interested in volunteering, please contact Stephen Davis.
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Upcoming Events
September 18th Summer Meeting/Plant Show, UC Botanical Garden
November 13th Fall Meeting, UC Botanical Garden
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BACPS CONTACTS
President Stephen Davis
Vice-President Bill Baumgartl
Secretary Judith Finn
Treasurer Joe Mazrimas
Newsletter Editor Christie Fremon
Assistant Editor Tony Gridley
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
Seed List Manager Ted Berry
Website: www.bacps.org
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 Christie
Fremon by the 23rd of the month prior to publication.
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