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and were stationed at ground level with their owners to entice the elevated
bird to join them. That being largely unsuccessful a young fireman and
macaw enthusiast climbed up to the stray bird and when the beast bit the
offered finger, the man grabbed the bird's beak, tucked the feathered fiend
under his arm and climbed to the ground one-handed.

There were no new committees.

The Redundancy Committee reported that 2 1/2 megabytes of Redundancy
Committee data had with no explanation or permission vanished. Fortunately
it had all been backed up on floppy discs so nothing was lost except explicit
faith in the security of hard drive memories.

New Business

Jim Bullard mentioned that this community dates back 300 years and there
will be a celebration sanctioned by the Sandy Spring Museum on October 4th
at Norbeck Country Club. It will be an occasion to picnic and gather and all
are encouraged to attend.

Exhibits

Lydia Haviland brought a magnificient sunflower referred to as only a
volunteer, in addition to some exquisite little yellow and red tomatoes.
Riverton offered flocks, corriopsis, ironweed, cardinal flowers, algeratum, and
moonbeam corriopsis.
There were other samples of the season's abundance but the Secretary
misplaced the list and didn't have the courage to conjure up a false
representation.

Questions

Dana Tietje has August-September blooming clematis that looks poorly. It was
said that if the Chances were here they'd know what the problem was.

Tim Eller wants to know if crepe myrtles do well in this area. Yes but
sustained below zero temps will kill the plant back to its roots.

Thea Kappahn has an indoore Eucalypsus plant that is doing poorly. It was
said that if the Hanels were here, they'd know what the problem was.

Ari Preuss was on the Shenandoah where 4 bald headed eagles were spotted.
4 are nesting in the Blackwater Refuge and it would appear that their
numbers are slowly coming back.

Nancy Preuss recommended a book entitled "Beautiful Food Garden".

Gordy Allen-Wardell commended the society for its bee hives. He said that
last year Maryland lost 50% of its domesticated colonies to trachial mites,
veroa mites, and bad climate. He said that the importance of bees to
agriculture cannot be underemphasized and the bees need all the help they
can get to keep their overall numbers up.