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2025
Leadership
Report
Another busy year for our club. In addition to our excellent social program of meetings and events which allows us to come together to learn, enjoy and make new friends, our newsletter and website plus all our various online presences have enabled our club to reach a larger audience.
To advertise ourselves and attract new members, Cloverleaf participated in the Reopening of the Mississauga Seed Library at Hazel McCallion (Central) Library; Cllr Dasko’s Seniors’ Fair at the Mississauga Seniors’ Centre; the Grand Reopening of Carmen Corbassen Community Centre; and the Riverwood Garden Day. These are excellent opportunities to meet and chat with people in our area, and are always short, fun events to participate in.
We got our hands dirty by working with Cllr Dasko to clean out, amend and plant a colourful display at the Army Navy and Airforce Veteran’s Club on 3rd Street. We took over responsibility for a garden bed outside the Library at our ‘home’, the Mississauga Seniors’ Centre, and planted it with many native species, nativars and cultivars. We will continue to maintain this bed in future years and will also place a sign to indicate our responsibility for it.
We continued our community involvement by financially supporting a garden bed which was created by one of our members, Tim Sullivan, at Nora’s House for Alzheimer respite care. We continued our support of the Pollinator Garden
bed in RK McMillan park by 1st Port Credit Sea Scouts who are now addressing the challenge of watering needs for this garden. The Compass, which is our local Port Credit food bank, saw more need than ever in our community this year, and we are proud to continue supporting their programs.
Driven by the discussion at the 2024 AGM, which sought to understand why we still ask for Presidents and Vice Presidents when none have been in place for a number of years, the leadership team began a process of review of HOW and WHY we operate in certain ways. By year end, with input from many members, we have a better idea of the organization and a (continually evolving) ‘organization chart’ of who is doing what! We looked at the role of the board and propose reviewing and radically updating our Constitution and By Laws in 2026 to represent a Leadership Team approach rather than a hierarchical approach. This is a work in process, and we value
your input and feedback as we work to get this done.
Finally, we reviewed our club fees and determined there would be NO change to the membership fee for 2026. The current fees represent very good value for the services available to members and are, of course, subsidized by our always amazing Plant Sale!
Membership renewals are due now!
Submitted by the Leadership Team of Cloverleaf Garden Club