The CVIDS Fall Banquet will take place on November 9 at the Radisson Hotel and Conference Center in Coralville. Social hour and voting on photos will begin at 11 AM. The meal starts at noon, at which time voting will halt. Our guest speaker will have the floor at 1 PM, and a short business meeting will close out the meeting.

Reservations are required by October 31. If you haven't already registered, please contact Sherry Moffit as soon as possible via e-mail at smoffit@netins.net. Alternatively, you can phone her or text via 319-331-0784. The banquet meal is provided at no cost to paid-up members (i.e. dues paid by April 1, 2024). Guests are also welcome but are asked to pay for their meal ($30).

Our speaker this year will be Curt Hanson of Crintonic Gardens, Gates Mills, OH. The program will show primarily images of seedlings and  his goals. Curt may try to include a few new images of this season but may not have the time. Curt stated the “season comes to an end and now the real work begins of culling and replanting till the snow flies”. Curt calls the program “Self Imposed Paradize. Creating a spiritual comfort zone in an ever more dystopian world.”  Curt Hanson comes highly recommended, and lots of heads were nodding in positive approval when the announcement was made. Crintonic Gardens is located east of Iowa City in Ohio, certainly making his plants desirable for our Iowa growing conditions.

Please take time to view this PowerPoint presentation of 24 beautiful daylilies offered by Curt Hanson in a 50/50 auction at the Banquet! Please note: Payment for the daylily auction and dues will be cash or check only. We will not have credit card services at the banquet.

The CVIDS Fall Banquet is a celebration of our year. Come to socialize, meet Curt, and view and vote for your favorite photo in the Photo Contest (see below). A brief business meeting will be held that includes voting for new club officers. Candidates for Vice President and Secretary are needed for 2025. Please volunteer!

You will have an opportunity to participate in a survey presented by Lisa Schmidt, Region One President, on interest in attending Region 1 Summer Meetings.

Finally, we will be accepting dues of $10 per person for the 2025 year.

Please thank Nancy Rash, Lyle Moen, and Sherry and Lynn Moffit for serving as Co-Chairs for our 2024 CVIDS Fall Banquet!

2024 Betty Miller Photo Contest
Entries for CVIDS' annual photo contest named in honor of our past president and hybridizer Betty Miller must be received by this year's organizer Sherry Moffit. Please consider sorting through your daylily and iris photo collection from this summer and entering the Contest. Mail printed photo entries to Sherry Moffit, PO Box 273, North English, IA 52316 by November 1st. You can't win a prize if you don't enter!

Categories:
(1) Large Flower, any daylily that is not a double, unusual form or spider
(2) Doubles
(3) Unusual forms or spiders
(4) Hybridizer’s 2024 seedling
(5) Any red daylily in honor of Verne Moore
(6) Large ruffles in honor of Gerald Hobbs
(7) Iris
(8) Clumps of daylilies or iris (two or more flowers)
(9) Landscape must include daylilies or iris
(10) Novelty (e.g. garden sculptures, birdhouses, animals, etc, but the photo must include daylilies or iris).

Photo Contest Rules:
(1) Two entries per category per person
(2) Flower name and category identified on back of photo along with photographer’s name.
(3) 4” x 6” photo prints only. No jpegs.
(4) No additional enhancements, borders, or backgrounds added to the photo.  You may crop.
(5) Submit entries to Sherry Moffit, P O Box 273, North English, IA 52316 by November 1st.  Photos may be brought to the October meeting.

Members will judge photos by popular ballot at the November Banquet. Members will vote to select the Grand Prize winner.

Prizes:
First Place, each category $15.00
Second Place, each category $10.00
Grand Prize $50.00