Cape Fear Garden Club Executive Committee Report
Media & Communications Committee: End-of-Year 2023-2024
The 2023 Ruth Yarbrough Publicity Press Book entry for the Cape Fear Garden Club is a 188 page compilation of news about the club and its members. It will be archived at the downtown location of the New Hanover County Public Library.
The Media & Communications Committee expresses appreciation to all the award winning club photographers, Donna Thompson, Eric Kozen, Kiplyn Duffy, and Bernadette Baker. Their skills with their cameras were the finishing touches for many a press release. It proves that a picture is worth a 1,000 words!
The Cape Fear Garden Club is blessed to have so many talented wordsmiths. The 2023 Press Book is filled with samples of writing from Nina Brown, Elaine Henson, Signa Stalvey, Karen Root, James Parnell, Matt Collogan, Paula Corbett, and Marcia Doering.
There are new members for the 2023-2024 club year deserving “shout outs” for their contributions to the Press Book. Valerie Robertson and Lloyd Singleton are two new members with a unique pulse on the local press scene. Valerie is the Editor and Publisher of Cape Fear’s GOING GREEN. Valerie has been instrumental in doing stories about many aspects of the Cape Fear Garden Club’s causes. Lloyd Singleton is the Cooperative Extension Director at the New Hanover County Arboretum and is a featured columnist for the Saturday edition of the Wilmington StarNews.
Media & Communications is grateful for the work of our committee members. Penelope Allison keeps track of our bills. Stephanie Durner is the Constant Contact guru. Jillian Rigsbee holds the keys to the garden club’s website, www.capefeargardenclub.org. Plus, our Newsletter Editor, Laurie Taylor, supplies us with a monthly update of our club’s activities by sending out our copies of CLIPPINGS. On a side note, Laurie Taylor was featured as a nominee for WILMA’s Fall 2023 WOMEN TO WATCH AWARDS in the Nonprofit Category.
Respectfully submitted,
Barbara Downing, News Director
Media & Communication Chair