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| Susan, Cindy and Estelle chat with Susan Stanfield while John Foster and Chona Pinnock go over some of the seedlings on the produce table. |
Abi dug and watered with gusto. |
(L-R) Standing: Estelle & John Foster, chair Community Service Garden Project, Susan Green;seated: Lisa Kelly and her pet Mi-Tee and Lucky |
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| Sally Walker and Estelle Foster |
(L-R) seated: Susan Green, Lisa Kelley and Mi-Tee, Shireen Faizullabthoy and Susan Horne; standing: Sally Walker and Estelle Foster |
Abi and Estelle |
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| Teresa Koontz and son Dylan brought some beautiful apples from her yard, here shown with Shirley and Wayne Tustin, Dr. Denny and Estelle. |
Shirley, Lane Anderson, a garden enthusiast and a Mesa candidate for the city council, Lucky, Teresa and Dylan, Wayne, Dr. Denny and Estelle. |
Wednesdays is watering day - and planting day too since Terry Fountain brought in lots of succulents for The Gathering Place. Wayne dug into the soil while Lane carried the buckets of water . Yes, the garden is lovingly watered by hand. Water is donated by American Cleaners and Mesa Liquor. |
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| Cindy Weber of Hidden Valley is a former Mesa resident who still loves our neighborhood. She came last Saturday with succulents and lantana and again brought in some geraniums and wildflower and poppy seeds. Others in photo: Estelle, Shirley, Wayne, John Foster, Estelle's husband and co-chair of the Community Service Garden Project for which the Mesa Bazaar is raising the funds, Abi, Lane, Joan Petit who brought in a basketful of goodies from her garden, Dr. Denny. |
Estelle Foster, co-chair of the Community Service Garden Project, with Dr. Trevor Denny (showing off a giant avocado) and Jim Bess, a project voluntee |
Chona, Susan, Mary Turley who brought plenty of gopher wires (now we can plant of geraniums and lantanas!), Cathie McCammon, co-president of La Mesa Neighborhood Association, also a candidate for the city council, Mary Erhmann, John and Lucky. |
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| John Foster and Chona Pinnock, our active team worker at Borton who brought in peaches and plums from her garden and is helping the greenhouse acquisition from Simi Valley. |
Lane with Lynn and Terry MacArthur and Joan. |
Susan Green of Braemar and husband Ron are generous hosts of our first greenhouse here with Estelle, Cindy, Abi, John explaining gardening to to Shirley and Joan. |
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| Chona and John holds up the "cabbage " succulent brought in by Stacie Bouffard of Miramonte while Cathie, susan, Lucky and Estelle look on. |
Susan and Estelle with Lucia Casso of the Westside who is an avid gardener and supporter of The Gathering Place. She helped in the cleanup. |
Susan Green, our regular participant/donor from Braemar came with friend Bonnie Chavearria, who chose to buy plums and zucchini. |
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| Holy Cross Pastor Father Ludo de Clippel, one of our most enthusiastic supporters of the garden and gathering place projects, came in briefly to share more ideas of how we can jumpstart the projects. Fr. Ludo is shown here with Cindy, Estelle and Rachel. |
Former Mesa resident Cindy Weber now of Hidden Valley and daughter Rachel came with Turkish yellow eggplants, zucchini and others young plants. Helen Ko of American Cleaners donated several fully dry-cleaned unclaimed garments for our Mesa Bazaar Photo shows (L-R) Cindy, Rachel. Estelle Foster, our generous and hardworking co-chair of the Garden Project, and Helen. |
New in S.B. from Utah Belle (Demeree Belle Johnson) and friend Megan came to buy some delicious plums. She is shown here with David, who came in his sail-bike, to help bring buckets of water from our donor, Mesa Liquor. We water our plants in the Gathering place on Wednesdays during the bazaar event and on Saturday mornings. |
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| Active Mesa Business Assn leader Dr. Jack Dawson and his wife Susan brought in young tomato plants, a couple already with fruits. They also purchased several items from the bazaar. Here they are shown with pet Zeke. |
Ruendy Aguayo, an employee at American Cleaners, was our generous and efficient helper in the cleanup. |
Joanne Bouslough (extreme left) brought in prints of pictures taken with her camera of the West Alta Mesa 2 July 26 potluck. It was Joanne’s act of kindness in TMP’s need for a camera (the old one was stolen the day before). Chona Pinnock loaned TMP another camera to cover the event. For these photos, we used another loaned by Samy’s Camera. Thank you so much kind neighbors!
Shown with Joanne are Estelle Foster, Marc, and Mary Freericks, who brought the dog puppet.
The Mesa Bazaar also got more fully dry-cleaned garments from American Cleaners, courtesy of owner Helen Ko. |
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| A nice Hispanic lady with a cane dropped in, shown here with (L-R) Hyla Fetter, Chona Pinnock and Tracy Fernandez. |
The ladies welcomed Ya Liu, a Chinese student being hosted by Abi for two weeks. From left, Chona Pinnock, Abi, Ya Liu, Estelle Foster, Mary Erhmann who brought in paperback novels, Joan Petit and Susan Green, who came with sweet peaches. |
Terry Fountain (extreme left) is shown by the many succulents she donated for The Gathering Place. With her are Abi and Ya. |
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| Terry Fountain (L) with Paulie Langston, who helped move the wood pallets and is an ever ready handyman for The Gathering Place. |
Christina, (extreme right) a dance instructor at UCSB came to get a cherimoya plant, shown here with (from left) Joanne, John and Estelle. |
A wondrous golden yellow butterfly paid us a visit - here hovering about the succulents! |
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A special group came just to support the cause: Rennie Costa of Ricardo Ave. did not need anything but bought some items to help. He came with family visiting from Florida that made up the four-generation ensemble: from left. daughter Susan Hess, Rennie, granddaughter Jamie Ressler and greatgrandson Griffin Hessler. |
The Bazaar is definitiely for conversations: (L-R) Lucky Coil, Terry Fountain, Estelle Foster, Susan Green and Johnny Foster. |
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| Busybodies for the afternoon- Joanne Bouslough who came with her craft- rubber stamps - of the Fiesta theme, and handcrafted cards. She also took time to help water the plants with our regular gardener - Chona Pinnock. |
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| With the simultaneous FIesta celebration and the new Farmer's Market at Mesa Annex at Harding Elementary, the Mesa Bazaar nevertheless got some patrons to support the Bazaar. Shown here are from left: Community Service Garden co-chairs John&Estelle Foster, Millie Rodier-Dawalo and daughter Mia, Susan Green, Millie's other daghter Sheila, Chona Pinnock, Ruendy Aguayo, and Olivia who purchased a few items. |
Estelle Foster (left) with Cindy Weber of Hidden Valley, who came with more donations in a light summer top did not expect the dipping Mesa temperature. |
Tomatoes from two Irenes - Irene Noppe (left) of Loyola came with a beautiful tomato plant while Irene Presley shared huge tomatoes from her garden downtown. |
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| John Gentry plants the first lantana in a gopher basket, one of several donated by Mary Turley. |
Barbara Petronis (left)dropped in and sampled Fely Gentry's delicious rice cake baked with grated young coconut while Fely's son, Charles Sanders, made alive the dog puppet, donated earlier by Mary Freericks. |
The Gentrys - new on Las Ondas- another happy family and eager caring neighbors, |
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Thanks for helping with the canopy set-up to passersby:
Frank Weismantel of Verizon and Andrew, a young student on his way to the bus stop on Meigs. |
| Chona Pinnock and Richard Box closing up the bazaar --fogged in and cold but still all smiles doing their volunteer work for the Mesa neighborhood. |
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This past Wednesday, August 19, the Mesa Bazaar drew more supporters for The Gathering Place - regular ones like Rennie Costa, Irene Presley and Lucky Coil (top left photo) and many others, including neighbors from other parts of town, such as downtown, Hidden Valley and Veronica Springs , came to patronize the bazaar, a few even promised to bring extra home produce next time.
Tammy McMullen (top right) had half an hour to help-- and put in order the wood pallets for the raised vegetable beds and will help pick up more from our donor, Wilson Printing, in Goleta. Zach Walker came late but pledged to adopt one of the vegetable beds. At bottom photos, Chona Pinnock, our regular bazaar keeper and avid gardener at The Gathering Place is shown with pretty daughter Samantha at the basket-filled bazaar and checking out the fruits on the apple tree. |
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Today’s Mesa Bazaar had a lot of new donations: Carol Limon, mother of Janelle from Cliff’s Room, dropped off grape plants - a Concord and a Bordeaux.
Above, our regular supporter from downtown Irene Presley (left) came with more tomatoes from her home garden. She is shown here with Helen Ko of American Cleaners who brought in more clothes for our Mesa Bazaar. |
Edee Olson and son Evan enjoyed some tacos at The Gathering Place. Evan checked out the apple fruits on the new tree. |
Marilou Williams (left) came with rosemary, geraniums, lilies, succulents. She is shown here with another loyal bazaar supporter Rennie Costa of Ricardo Ave. and Irene. |
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| Carol Fell from Calle las Caleras in Braemar had samplings of blue agave, ofwhich he has a lot more to donate from home, She is shown here with Paulie Langston who brought in plenty of big nails for the vegetable bed construction. |
Tina Hammond of Campanil in Braemar brought a huge pot of agave. Tina promised to donate holiday lights for the oak trees. |
Marie Chu (left) from Borton came with some pork-curry empanaditas (baked dumplings). She is shown here with Lucky Coil who arranges the first “Everything Mesa Holiday Baskets.” Marie went back home to fetch a crate box which is perfect for Chona’s planned herb garden. |
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Jim Bess of SHIFCO brought lots of succulent ground covers which Chona Pinnock helped plant. Jim wasted no time, went back to fetch some tools and started hammering away - and voila! our first vegetable bed, one he is adopting, is done. After his garden chore, Jim is shown with Mike Deihl from downtown who offered to help find a hauler to carry stuff to our community gardens while Irene looks on.
Also, Tracy Fernandez and Hyla Fetter came with a big bag of bulbs and helped pack up. |
Jim putting together the wood pallets to make a nice raised bed with a gopher wire lining he bottom. |
Jim Bess of SHIFCO brought lots of succulent ground covers which Chona Pinnock helped plant. Jim wasted no time, went back to fetch some tools and started hammering away - and voila! our first vegetable bed, one he is adopting, is done. Also, Tracy Fernandez and Hyla Fetter came with a big bag of bulbs and helped pack up. |
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The Gathering Place is for just sitting around watching passersby, having a snack or a meal, work on the community garden, or just socializing.
Tony Warrecker has delivered another truckload of wood chips which need to be spread around The Gathering Place. (Our chore for Saturday morning- need wheelbarrows!)
Once the area is filled, we will set the redwood platforms for patio furniture (we need your old ones) and soon the Friday/Saturday evening performances/conversation groups will commence. Come fall, we will decorate the place with pumpkins and jack-o-lanterns and for the winter holidays, we will light up the three oak trees and have our own tree-lighting ceremonies for the neighborhood and really CELEBRATE LIGHTS!. |
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| Chona Pinnock waits on a prospective Mesa Bazaar customer who turned out to be a funny man-regaling the group with his many jokes. |
Fr. Ludo de Clippel came by to say "hi" to the Bazzar regulars from left, Irene Presley, Estelle Foster and Lucky Coil. |
Richard (left) happy with his purchase, pose with Bryan Tari, a talented concert pianist on the Mesa. |
| Saturday morning at The Gathering Place |
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| Our honorary Mesa neighbor- from downtown, Irene Presley |
Irene brings tomatoes and flowers for the Mesa Bazaar, plant, scatter wood chips and and clean up all the time (weeded the island!) . Now that's real a volunteer! |
Jim Bess adopted a vegie bed and finished it in no time- he's ready to plant. |
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| Another regular volunteer from Hidden Valley, Cindy Weber brought in more plants and helped move the wood chips to The Gathering Place. |
Our generoud volunteers - working hard in the heat wave too! |
The plants at TGP is coming along - we need more red bougainvillas |
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| Jim with the wheelbarrow; Irene planting ground cover. |
Cindy spreading out the wood chips on the social area of TGP. |
The gophers are so brazen, they sucked in this agave. |
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| Busy bodies - prepping TGP for the holidays- bring in fall holiday decors- and soon the oak trees will be lit up for winter's CELEBRATE LIGHTS! |
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