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Scholarship presentation in September

A Toronto girl, Paige Kobe, has won the $1,000 Leaside Garden Society Founders’ scholarship for 2020. Paige is a fourth-year student studying Water Resource Science at Lakehead University. Her diverse interests include agriculture, locally grown food, gardening, soil and water resources. Studies have led Paige to soil research that focuses on sustainable agriculture land use and restoring degraded soils. Paige was extremely appreciative of the scholarship. She said it opens up many opportunities associated with her studies. Connie Uetrecht and members of LGS’s Scholarship Committee were on hand to congratulate Paige and her parents.

Virtual Garden Tour

LGS has created a Virtual Garden Tour of member’s gardens in lieu of the annual Leaside Garden Tour normally held in June that was cancelled. Visit the website at leasidegardensociety.org under About Us. All may view.

Speakers Series

The LGS Speaker Series has been continuing online with Zoom Meetings through September, October and November. The 2021 series will feature guest speaker Suzanne Zachararczyk. Topic: Wildlife in the City Date: January 14/21. Time: 7 p.m. New members welcome to join Leaside Garden Society to view the Zoom Meetings. Visit leasidegardensociety.org

The Leaside Garden Society has created a $1,000 scholarship for students in horticulture-related studies in Canada. The candidate must be a Canadian citizen or permanent resident and be enrolled full-time in an undergraduate program in horticulture or a related field of study such as botany, plant science, ecology, landscape architecture or environmental science from an accredited Canadian college or university.  Consideration will be given to a candidate pursuing studies at other recognized Canadian institutions, at the discretion of the selection committee. The one-year scholarship will be granted for the coming academic year 2019-2020.. Recipients may reapply for the scholarship in the subsequent years. Candidates who are present or previous residents of Leaside or a relative of a Leaside resident will receive extra consideration.  For the purpose of this scholarship, Leaside includes North and South Leaside, Bennington Heights and Thorncliffe Park. Check the conditions at the LSG site.  Candidates must submit the following between May 30 and June 30.

• A LGS Scholarship Application Form that can be found on the LGS website,
• An unofficial transcript from the present year of their program,
• An essay (250-500 words) describing why s/he should receive the scholarship,
• The Leaside address/name which links the applicant to Leaside, if applicable,
• The name and contact information of two references relevant to their course of study.

Meeting June 10

Susan Lipchak

Master Gardener Susan Lipchak will speak at the Leaside Garden Society virtual meeting on June 10. She is an active volunteer at the Toronto Botanical Garden and loves digging in her own garden. Ms. Lipchak is also a member of the Ontario Rock and Hardy Plant Society.

Leaside man gives shrubs to LGS to boost scholarship

The Leaside Garden Society is thanking a Leaside man, Logan Philp, for donating 50 boxwood bushes to the society. The bushes were made redundant at the Philp home after landscaping. His neighbour Jane Monteith was eager to accept them with a plan to raise funds for the LGS scholarship fund. It worked. Some $900 was raised when the boxwoods were offered in a virtual plant sale. Now the scholarship fund, which is strapped for cash because of the pandemic, will be able to offer its annual $1,000 scholarship for 2022. Well done all.