LA BALLONA VALLEY BROMELIAD SOCIETY NEWSLETTER JUNE 2010 **************************************************************** Meeting Meeting: Wednesday, 23 June at 7:30 pm in the Rotunda Room at the Veterans Memorial Hall. Speaker: Frank McDonough of the Los Angeles County Arboretum will present "Rare Plants of the Tepuis in Southern Venezuela". Drinks: Jan Brown and Gloria Grover Food: Katsu Nakagawa, Peggy Oberg, and Anna Pisano **************************************************************** Editor's note LBVBS Online The LBVBS is online! 1) LBVBS rides the social networking wave: Sheilla Perez has set up a Facebook page for us. Thanks, Sheilla! This URL should work, but if not, you can search Facebook. http://www.facebook.com/pages/La-Ballona-Valley-Bromeliad-Society/115369225161215 You can see some of the photos which have been posted so far without logging in, but to see all of the photos and news updates, you will need to set up a Facebook account (free, but do be aware that online privacy issues have been reported recently). 2) Surf on over: The LBVBS now has a webpage which is listed on the Bromeliad Society International's list of affiliate society webpages, or to go there directly: http://www.bsi.org/webpages/lbvbs (Note: There is a link to the Facebook page in the "Links" section.) Come and check us out! If you have suggestions, comments, and/or stuff to add to our webpages, please let Sheilla or me know. Jean **************************************************************** Administrivia The La Ballona Valley Bromeliad Society meets the fourth Wednesday of each month, January through October, in the Rotunda Room at Veterans' Memorial Hall, 4117 Overland Avenue, Culver City. Emmit Willis, President Jim Jaeger, Vice-President Don Misumi, Treasurer Gloria Grover, Membership Jean Yoshii, Newsletter (Have an item for the newsletter? Please email it to yoshii@usc.edu or mail it through the post.)