The Clear Lake Trowel & Trellis Garden Club recently honored Jo Douville with a Penny Pines Plantation. Photo by Linda Pyers.

LAKEPORT – Clear Lake Trowel & Trellis Garden Club, through the Penny Pines Program, presented its 51st Penny Pines certificate in honor of Jo Douville.

Penny Pines Chair Ann Blue presented the award to Douville and shared with the membership some of her many contributions to the club.

Those contributions include acting as parliamentarian for two years, opportunity drawing for two years, youth chair, assistant to garden therapy chair, vice president, and co-chair for the new open space city parkland donated by Bob Millberry and named by him (Hanson-Linder-Dinsimore-Millberry Memorial Grove).

Douville also presented a soapmaking workshop for the North Lake Garden Club and is secretary for the Mendo-Lake District.

A big thank you to Jo for all her contributions to the club since becoming a member in 2004.

Clear Lake Trowel & Trellis Garden Club has been a participant in the U.S. Forest Service Penny Pines Program since February 1990.

Our club, along with the other garden clubs in California as well as many other service clubs, supports this program.

For a contribution of $69 we buy a plantation consisting of approximately one acre planted with 300 to 350 seedlings. In return the Forest Service provides us with a certificate in memory or in honor of the chosen person, in this case Jo Douville.

Each club chooses which California National Forest to send their funds to. Our club has chosen to send our funds to Mendocino National Forest, Grindstone Ranger District the Spanish Fire Area where around 5,000 acres were burned in 2002.

The funds received from Penny Pines contributions are held until conditions are right for planting and federal funds are available. When reforestation has been completed a standard forest sign will be erected near the site listing names of those honored.

The public is invited to participate in this program. For information contact Penny Pines Chair Ann Blue at 707-263-5854.

The Clear Lake Trowel & Trellis Garden Club meets at noon on the third Tuesday of the month at the Scotts Valley Women's Club House, 2298 Hendricks Road, Lakeport.

Members, guests and all interested are most welcome. President Jo Jameson, 707-263-4039, invites interested gardeners to join us.

Clear Lake Trowel & Trellis Garden Club is a member of Mendo-Lake District, California Garden Club Inc., Pacific Region and National Garden Clubs Inc.

For more information see www.clttgc.org .