TICKETS NOW AVAILABLE GET YOURS SOON!

Here's a little communique with one of our attendees from the Gardening Symposium last spring and my reply to her. Lots of information here as well. I will add the speaker list to the bottom of this e-mail. The cats stole my thumb drive that had all my text to put on the website--and now I have to either re-do it or find the darn thumb drive--and believe me, these cats ain't talkin'.

Anyone want to join me to sell tickets at Steve's Food Boy in Big Lake tomorrow (Friday) afternoon from 1 to 5 or so? Gerry has given us the go-ahead to have a little table and wear our North Root t-shirts and sell tickets. Friday is when their special 3-day ad breaks, so he suggested it would be a good time. We will do it again early in April--I will see if I can get him to reserve us space -- I'm sure he will.

Please read on!--LL

On Mar 3, 2010, at 8:44 PM, Diana Reinart wrote:
Dear Linda,
 
As a friend and I attended the symposium last year and thoroughly enjoyed our day, we would like to come again this year.  If we could sign up in advance, we would appreciate.  We need to reserve two spots, one for Joannie Klapperich and the other for Diana Reinart.  Also, how might we get the advanced registration money to you?
 
We are looking forward to attending again this year.
Thank you, Diana Reinart

HI Diana!

I am so glad you enjoyed the symposium last year and am happy to inform you that we are moving our location to the Houston Middle School! This year I think there might be enough AIR for us to breathe! This venue will allow us many more attendees, by the way, so I would encourage you to bring even MORE friends. In the next couple of days I should have a complete speaker list as well as a bunch of other fun things posted to the North Root website--www.NorthRoot.net regarding the symposium.

In the mean time--we are selling tickets in advance this year--$25 in advance and $35 at the door. Includes lunch, access to all of the speakers (right now there are 20 on the list!), opportunity to visit with the vendors (this is certainly new!), a wide variety of raffle items, door prizes, shop the Gardener's Garage Sale (I would have called it the Gardener's Shed Sale, but that just didn't have the same "ring" to it) and a great opportunity to spend the day with like-minded gardening folks. All in all, the best day of gardening you can spend that isn't in a garden--and no heavy lifting!

Tickets are available in advance at:

In Big Lake
Basket Case Beads in the East Lake Mall
Curves
McGhan's Construction

In Houston
Mid-Valley Senior Center
Houston Middle School

In Meadow Lakes
Power Sport Stuff

In Wasilla
Far North Garden Supply

In Anchorage
Far North Garden Supply

The event is Saturday, April 17 from 9am til 5:30pm.

SPECIAL ACCOMMODATIONS AVAILABLE
If you have friends that would like to come from Anchorage (or further) and need a place to stay Friday and/or Saturday nights, Creekside B&B (a brand new, beautiful B&B) has rooms for $80/night that sleep as many as 4--and that room rate is a flat rate, NOT $80 per person! You can call North Root member Kathy Glines at 892-8885 for more information. Please tell her you are wanting the SYMPOSIUM SPECIAL (This room rate is just for Symposium Attendees)!

Thanks for your interest and we will look forward to seeing you at the event.
Linda Lockhart

PS. I spoke with Joannie (Klapperich) around the holidays. She was very happy to have been invited last year (so thank you for bringing her with you last year!) and she was looking forward to this year's event as well.

SPEAKERS for 2010
There won't be any other venue where you will find this much expertise in one place for the entire year. Save yourself some running around and just come to the Symposium! Ticket price even includes LUNCH. However could you go wrong? Here's our list of 20 of the most generous, well-informed gardeners in the state that have agreed to make presentations at the Symposium. Please join us!

Les Brake
River Bean
Verna Pratt
Jaime Rodriguez
Steve Brown
Fran Durner
Julie Riley
Chris Wagner
Brooke Heppinstall
Sally Koppenberg
Christine & Bob Greig
Catherine Inman
Florene Carney
Cheri Ables
Jill Parson
Barbara Montgomery
Randi Perlman
Mark Fisher
Jennifer Davis
Talya Johnson

PLUS! A special appearance by the MOOSE BUSTERS!

Driving Directions:

FROM Wasilla, Anchorage and points SOUTH:

Parks Highway to Just past the Fireworks stands. HAWK LANE on the LEFT to the end of the road. Both Houston Middle School and High School are at the end of the road. The Symposium will be at the MIDDLE SCHOOL, the first one on the LEFT. There will be signs and plenty of parking!

FROM Willow, Talkeetna and points NORTH:

South to the Houston High School Sign (just before the Big Lake Turnoff) on the RIGHT side of the road is HAWK LANE. Turn RIGHT and go to the end of the road. Both Houston Middle and High Schools are at the end of the road. The Symposium will be at the MIDDLE SCHOOL, the first one on the LEFT. There will be signs and plenty of parking!