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·        Reserve your place at the 37^th Annual GVB Awards Event May 1^st                         

·         Citrix

·    Sign Up for May 2011 Goleta Valley Beautiful Volunteer Events

·    Goleta Valley Beautiful News Briefs

·         Reserve now for May 22^nd 10^th Annual Goleta Valley Heritage Tree and Garden Tour

·    April Goleta Valley Beautiful Events

Reserve Your Place at the 37^th Annual GVB Awards Event May 1^st

             

The 37^th Annual Goleta Valley Beautiful Awards.   The Awards event will occur Sunday May 1^st from Noon to 2:30 at the Rancho La Patera and Stow House Gardens.  The Event will feature an on site Santa Maria style tri-tip and chicken barbeque lunch catered by Country Meat Market and a Silent Auction including a wide assortment of local merchant offerings as well as unique gift baskets.  The Bren Grass Band will provide entertainment  You can still reserve a seat online for only $25 at www.goletavalleybeautiful.org.     For more information, call 685-7910.

           

2011 Awardees

Residential – 5344 Paseo Rio

Multi-Family – 6626 Picasso Rd , Coronado Apartments

Sustainable – 944 N. Patterson

Community Pride – SunGate Ranch Homeowners Association, Old San Marcos Road

Educational/Institutional – Pollock Theater , UCSB

Commercial – 6550 Hollister Avenue , Cottage Health System Business Services

Restoration – 600 Pine Avenue , ATK Space Systems and The Towbes Group

Public Space – 7300 Mirano Drive , Bella Vista Park

Historical Preservation – 300 N. Los Carneros Road, Goleta Depot

Orchard  – Rancho Del Ciervo, N. Patterson

Heritage Tree – Shamal Ash, San Jose Creek

Community Volunteer Group  - Beautify Dos Pueblos, Kim Howard and Bill Parker, co-chairs

Evergreen Volunteer – Jennifer Berry

Golden Shovel Award –Tami Mason

Community Partners- Kitson Landscape management, Inc., Camino Real Marketplace, Marborg

Philanthropist of the Year – Michael Towbes

 

 

 

Goleta Urban Forest Management Plan to be discussed at the May 3, 2011 City Council Meeting

The Goleta Urban Forest Management Plan will be discussed at the afternoon session of the Goleta City Council beginning at 1:30 pm on May 3, 2011. We encourage all interested Goleta residents to monitor the City of Goleta website and download information about this item. This is an opportunity to appear before the City Council and show your support for urban forest issues in the city. For further information check the City of Goleta website at http://www.cityofgoleta.org/ and check under government meetings.

 

Citrix Online provides free 3-month GoToMeeting.com trial offers to GVB members and newsletter readers

 

During May only, Citrix Online is offering a free 3-month trial membership of one of its most popular products, GoToMeeting.com. GoToMeeting.com is a website that allows you to collaborate online with small groups, providing easy web conferencing and online meeting tools. Citrix Online wants to help fund a new program with Goleta Valley Beautiful to plant fruit trees. If you want to help drive our campaign to fund fruit tree plantings, please sign up for a free trial of GoToMeeting here: http://www.gotomeeting.com.  You can click Try It Free and sign up with the promo code earth day. If there is a huge response, we’ll have the ability to fund more trees.

Thanks to Citrix volunteers for helping on April 19, 2011 to maintain the Hollister 2 plantings.

 

    

 

 

Sign Up for May 2011 Goleta Valley Beautiful Volunteer Events

For all volunteer events….

Please RSVP for all events by sending an e-mail to kennethknight@cox.net  with your name, phone and e-mail, and the date, time and location of the volunteer event in which you would like to participate.  For questions before the event call Ken at 685-7910, and during the day of the event at 252-1952.

No experience necessary.  Goleta Valley Beautiful provides all tools and equipment.  Please wear old clothes you wouldn’t mind getting dirty and sturdy shoes – no open toes or flips please.  All work done from the ground.  Students, bring your community service forms to get signed for credit.  Families welcome as long as younger children are constantly supervised.

Sun, May 1, 12:00-2:30 PM –Stow House Gardens–Annual Awards event-Meet at the Stow House Gardens, located at 304 North Los Carneros Road in Goleta

Fri, May 5, 8 AM-4 PM –Maintenance and irrigation of 140 trees planted last year along Cathedral Oaks Road, Hollister Avenue, and other locations within the City of Goleta

Sat, May 7, 9-12 – City Tree Care – Meet at the Devereux Greenhouse

Sat, May 7, 1-4 – County Tree Care – Meet at the Devereux Greenhouse

Sat, May 14, 9-12 –Tree Planting at San Marcos High School. Meet at the Hollister side of the school, located at 4750 Hollister Avenue in Goleta.

Sat, May 14, 1-4 – UCSB Tree Care—Meet at UCSB Parking Lot 37 located off of Mesa Road in Goleta

Sat, May 21, 9-12 – Dos Pueblos High School Tree Planting Meet at the Distinguished School Sign in the Parking Lot. Dos Pueblos is located at 7266 Alameda Avenue.

Sat, May 21, 1-4 – Hollister 2 Tree Care -- Meet at Hollister and Palo Alto

Sat May 28^th – No projects- Memorial Day Weekend.

 

Science Night Presentations

 

Thurs, May 5, – Brandon Elementary School Science Night-  

Thurs, May 12, -- Washington Elementary School Science Night

Thurs, May 19, 9-12 – Isla Vista Elementary School Science Night located at  6875 El Colegio Road in Isla Vista

 

Litter Pickup

•  Roadside trash collection in the Goleta area on the 2nd and 4th Saturdays.  Trash grabbers and bags provided by the City of Goleta.  Call Don and Judy Nason 964-4895 to RSVP   

Graffiti Removal

• Call 964-7117 to participate in graffiti removal and to report incidents in your area as soon as you see it.     

Goleta Valley Beautiful News Briefs

-  March Monthly Award Additional Recognition: The March Goleta Valley Beautiful Monthly Award to the residents at 636 Andy Lane neglected to include a credit to Will Silver for the installation of the landscaping and hardscape. He also made contributions to design elements. Will Silver is head of Silver Services and you can reach him at 705-4144.

- Get Well Soon George: Our volunteer trainer George Jimenez recently underwent knee surgery. He’ll be out for three-four months. We’ll miss you George and look forward to you coming back in your superman form again.

-       California Urban Forest Council Announces Free 2011 Membership – Goleta Valley Beautiful members also receive free 2011 membership in the California Urban Forest Council.  The California Urban Forest Council is the nation’s oldest urban forest council, sustaining and expanding California’s urban forests to make our communities healthier and stronger.  Check out their website at www.caufc.org. 

 

- Free Street Trees - Preaching to the Choir – We keep telling you about our free street program supported by a grant from the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection.  But it’s like preaching to the choir.  We need you to tell your neighbors.  Just about every time we plant a tree in a neighborhood, a neighbor comes strolling by and says “Hey, can I get in on that?”  Please save us some time and talk to your neighbor today.    If you would like to arrange for a street tree to be planted in the parkway in front of your property, and you are willing to water it for the first several years while it is getting established, please give us a call and we’ll work with City of Goleta officials to provide you a tree free of charge.   We are now taking orders for trees to be installed in May.  

- Honor Trees Are a Great Way to Remember Loved Ones: Honor trees come with a certificate that can be sent to the honoree.  In addition to our Dos Pueblos High School Honor Grove site, GVB can also plant Honor Trees on any private sites.  Any trees planted on private property require someone to assume responsibility to provide ongoing maintenance.   For more information, call 685-7910. 

- Goleta Valley Beautiful Wish List:  Please call GVB at 685-7910 if you can help with our wish list posted on our website www.goletavalleybeautiful.org