{"id":330,"date":"2024-12-25T21:12:03","date_gmt":"2024-12-25T21:12:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cvos.org\/?page_id=330"},"modified":"2025-01-26T05:43:27","modified_gmt":"2025-01-26T05:43:27","slug":"meetings","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/cvos.org\/home\/?page_id=330","title":{"rendered":"Meetings"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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CVOS began as a collaboration of Lowe’s garden center shoppers that chared an interest in orchids.\u00a0 Lester Poole, the District Network Trainer\u00a0 for Lowe’s home district, and Dr. Mark Sigmon began discussing\u00a0 the possibility of starting an orchids society.\u00a0 Shortly Dave Erikson became part of the initial group in ’97.\u00a0 Dave is now co-owner, with wife Phyllis, of Ironwood Orchid Estates.<\/p>

We began collecting names and contact information of interested area orchid growers and quickly had a list of over 30 interested individuals.\u00a0 Lowe’s agreed to allow the group to use the stores training room for our meetings.\u00a0 There were 27 attendees at the first meeting.\u00a0<\/p>

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At this time Lowe’s initiated an apprentice in Horticulture possition, hiring Hort students to work in our garden center to provide hands on training in Garden Center operations.\u00a0Our group met for four months at Lowe’s and an opportunity arose to hold our meetings at SVCC’s Life Sciences Building across the street at Catawba Valley Community College.<\/p>

After many years, Covid flared through the country, making meetings unsafe.\u00a0 The members decided for safeties sake to put a hiatus on in-person meetings.\u00a0 When we felt it safe to begin in person meetings, our meetings were relocated\u00a0 to another section of campus since CVCC was winding down their successful Hort program due to new construction.<\/p>

Member, Phillip Setzer, offered to investigate if we could use the Catawba County Extension office facilities to meet in.\u00a0 With a favorable confirmation from the Extension Director, and an approving vote, we then relocated our meeting location to our current Extension Office facilities.<\/p>

CVOS will be 30 years old in March 2027 and our group is again growing with enthused new members.\u00a0 We we look forward to the excitement of the next couple years till we can celebrate our 30th anniversay.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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