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The Flathead Lake Cherry Growers®

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2017

I M P O R T A N T

D A T E S

FLCG

Spring Grower Meeting Saturday April 8

Yellow Bay

Cherry Blossom Festival Saturday May 13

FLCG

Pre-Harvest Grower Meeting Saturday July 8

Polson

Main Street Flathead Lake Cherry Festival

Sat./Sun. July 15/16

FLCG Administrator

Barb Hammons

Editor /Publisher Ken Edgington

From The President Bruce Johnson

I’m glad to see so many of you at our spring educational meeting and if you didn’t make it you missed hearing Claudia Probst.

Claudia is an expert on powdery mildew, which we do now have in the Flathead, and she gave us good ideas on prevention and control.

The next coop meeting is the pre-harvest meeting scheduled for July 8th. Please plan on attending to get the latest on 2017 cherry conditions , the market and updates for harvesting. Also we will be electing three board of directors.

This is also a reminder to do your GAP updates for 2017. Water sampling bottles

are available at the Environmental Health Department of Lake County, located

on the third floor of the court house. Phil Nelson will be here in June to conduct

pre-audits and help us get our books in order.

The Board of Directors is continuing to work with Tabletree juice to convert a

portion of the Finley Point warehouse into a juice processing and bottling plant.

We hope to be giving you all tours during this harvest season.

Hoping to see all of you on July 8th. Bruce

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81st Annual FLCG Spring Growers’ Meeting

This Year’s Speakers

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Are You Sure This is the Way ?

FLCG Board of Directors

Bruce Johnson Mark St. Sauver Bob Sandman Mitch Jones Dick Beighle

Brian Peterson Oliver Dupuis Mike Bonner Sharon Myers

It was so cold and snowy this winter the turkeys even started heading south !!!

Picture Taken On A Trail-Cam and provided by a FLCG Member

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In Memory Of FLCG Member

Richard “Dick” Bardin December 14, 1934—April 15, 2017

Richard Alton Bardin, age 82, passed away peacefully at his home in La Jolla, CA on April 15, 2017, his final days spent with his children at his side. Born December 14, 1934 in Oxnard, CA, he was the son of the late James Alton Bardin and Florence Elizabeth Bardin.

Richard spent his early life on the Central Coast of California in San Luis Obispo. College brought him to the Los Angeles area, where he received a B.S. in Engineering from UCLA in 1957. He then served in the United States Air Force as a lieutenant, where he was stationed in Cheyenne, WY; Denver, CO; and Aldeburgh, England. He returned to Los Angeles, and joined the law firm Fulwider Patton in 1960 as a law clerk and attended law school at USC, where he received his J.D., Order of the Coif, in 1965. He became a partner at Fulwider Patton in 1967

and had a very successful law practice for over 40 years, specializing in intellectual property litigation, with a focus on medical companies. Richard enjoyed a full and active life, with a number of interests and passions, including farming at his beloved cherry orchard in Bigfork, MT and pecan orchard in Clovis, CA, gardening, cooking, skiing, flying airplanes, hiking and fishing, traveling, collecting wine, and spending time with family and friends. He touched many lives and was loved by all who knew him. Richard will always be remembered for his kind, generous, joyful, and vivacious spirit, his quick wit and charm. He is survived by his son James Bardin and his wife Susan Tone, and his grandchildren Sarah, Anna, and James; his daughter Christa Bardin Tallman and her husband Brad Tallman, and his grandchildren Megan, Ryan, and Catherine; his sisters Janet Bardin and Susan Wilkison and her husband Warren Wilkison, and his nephews Brett and Mark. He is preceded in death by his wife Kristine Josephine Bardin. Services will be held at 11:00 a.m. on May 12, 2017 at Saint Brigid Church, 4735 Cass Street, San Diego, CA 92109, with a reception to immediately follow.

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This is Montana’s

State Bird. Do you know the name of it?

Is it a:

Yellow Throated Finch

Western Meadowlark

Yellow-Bellied Finch

Western Stick Setter

P.O. Box 2049

Bigfork, Montana 59911

Test Your Montana Trivia

Answer: Western Meadowlark

Phone: 406-982-3069

Fax: 406-982-3065

E-mail: hammons@centurytel.net

www.montanacherries.com

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