2005 Meeting Review

March Meeting Held at Roc & Pat's home in Ware, Ma Speaker: Dr. Joerg Mayer, DVM Tufts Veterinary University After Joerg graduated from the Veterinary University in Budapest/Hungary, he completed an internship in zoological medicine at the Roger Williams Park Zoo in Providence RI.  At the end of the internship Dr Mayer joined a research team to go into the cloud forest of Papua New Guinea to study wild and captive Tree Kangaroos for 2 mos.  Dr Mayer received a M. Sc. degree in Wild Animal Health from the Royal Veterinary College and the zoological society of London before he started in his current position as the Director of Exotic Service at Tufts University School of Veterinary Medicine.
April Meeting Held at Ed & Chris's home in Agawam Speaker: Bruce Gibbs, Water Quality Bruce is one of our members who has had koi since he was a young boy.  He will discuss water quality & go thru the nitrogen cycle and explain the different aspects of the various chemicals that make up "water".  Like PH< Ammonia, Nitrates, & Nitrites.  And why it is so important to the health of all your pond inhabitants.	\
May Meeting Meeting was held at Valerie & Craig's home in Ludlow Speaker:  Craig Mariani Subject: Important things to look for when purchasing your next Koi.  Many examples to be seen in Craig's newly built shop.
June Meeting Meeting was held at Gail & Cliff's home in So Hadley Speaker: Ruth McCormic (Triple Brook Farm) Subject: Turn your yard into a traditional Japanese garden.  Ruth will demonstrate how to grow bamboo around the house and the varieties that are New England hardy.
July Meeting	This Meeting was held at Chris & Jim's home in Chicopee The meeting was held discuss & finalize plans for the upcoming 1st Annual Water Garden & Ornamental Fish Show to be held Aug 6th & 7th at the 3 County Fairgrounds in Northampton It rained & unfortunately there were no pictures taken
Aug Meeting Meeting was held at Joan & Jon's home in So Hadley Speaker: Rob Dieter (Dieter's Water Gardens) Subject: Water Plants - You may think you know a lot about growing water plants until you listen to this guy.  Rob has been growing & selling water plants from one of the largest wholesale / retail businesses in Ct
Sept Meeting Meeting to be held at Rudy & Sandi Lysick's home in Chicopee Speaker:  Dick Blase, Pepperell, MA Subject:  Easy to use innovative items Dick brought a bag full of different items he uses in his ponds.  He explained each & every one of them.  How to make them & what their function was.  He answered several questions & everyone learned how easy it is to create & build your own inexpensive systems. Thank you Dick for filling in for our Speaker that was unable to make it.
Oct Meeting Meeting to be held at Five Star Gardens in Springfield Speaker:  Lenny (Five Star) Subject:  Working with rock From their beautiful Goshen stonewalls to their handsome paved walkways, Five Star Gardens have long been recognized as the masters in this area.  Any one who has ever wanted to work in stone, here is the meeting to attend.  the folks a five Star Gardens will share with us some of the techniques, tools & materials used to build these beautiful walls.
Nov Meeting Meeting was held at Jim & Deresa Helms home in Southampton Speaker:  Jim Subject:  Winterizing your pond Since Deresa was away (playing solder in Alabama) Jim talked about the various do's & don'ts about winterizing your pond.  Cleaning out the debris and how far down to cut off each of your plants.  He also discussed the pros & cons for either keeping it running thru the winter or turning it off & adding a heater and/or air stones.  Where they should be placed, etc.  Jim answered several questions & people shared their experiences.  As usual we all learned from each other.

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