{"id":603,"date":"2022-10-17T14:25:12","date_gmt":"2022-10-17T14:25:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/columbusdahlias.com\/?page_id=603"},"modified":"2022-11-07T14:18:33","modified_gmt":"2022-11-07T14:18:33","slug":"who-we-are-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/columbusdahlias.com\/","title":{"rendered":"Who We Are"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>The Dahlia is grown world-wide for its myriad of shapes, sizes and vibrant colors.\u00a0 The Greater Columbus Dahlia Society (GCDS) was founded in 1964 to facilitate sharing the beauty of the Dahlia and foster the sharing of information relative to growing and displaying the Dahlia.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Throughout the growing season GCDS has regular meetings that cover new introductions, proper soil preparation, tuber selection, potting and planting methods, fertilization, watering, general care, plant protection from insects, preparing blooms for exhibition and preparing tubers for winter storage. There are always members present at the meetings and otherwise available to help you with any questions.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>In the late summer of each year the GCDS has an annual dahlia show. Members and non-members are encouraged to exhibit their finest blooms, artistic arrangements with dahlias and photograph of dahlias.\u00a0 The beautiful bloom featured above is &#8220;Dick Westfall&#8221;, named\u00a0in honor of\u00a0our past President and undoubtedly one of the best growers in the United States.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>The GCDS is affiliated with the American Dahlia Society (ADS), a source of valuable educational materials.\u00a0 <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong><u>Officers<\/u><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>President &#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;\u00a0 Jeff Laine<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>1st Vice President\u00a0 &#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;\u00a0 Gil Graham<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>2nd Vice President\u00a0 &#8230;&#8230;&#8230;. Jason Fairchild<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Recording Secretary &#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;. Lilly Ann Seipel<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Treasurer\/Membership &#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.. Phil Hidy<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Corresponding Secretary\/ ADS Rep &#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.. Linda Laine<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Dahlia is grown world-wide for its myriad of shapes, sizes and vibrant colors.\u00a0 The Greater Columbus Dahlia Society (GCDS) was founded in 1964 to facilitate sharing the beauty of the Dahlia and foster the sharing of information relative to&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbusdahlias.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/603"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbusdahlias.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbusdahlias.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbusdahlias.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbusdahlias.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=603"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/columbusdahlias.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/603\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":625,"href":"http:\/\/columbusdahlias.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/603\/revisions\/625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbusdahlias.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}