{"id":1272,"date":"2025-12-11T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-11T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thegardenclubofbrookfieldct.org\/ClubMainWP1\/?p=1272"},"modified":"2025-12-15T15:28:36","modified_gmt":"2025-12-15T19:28:36","slug":"2025-december-holiday-social","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thegardenclubofbrookfieldct.org\/ClubMainWP1\/index.php\/2025\/12\/11\/2025-december-holiday-social\/","title":{"rendered":"2025 December Holiday Social"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>On December 11, twenty members of our club, decked out in the colors of the season, celebrated in style at our annual holiday luncheon. Hospitality Chairs Karen Frank and Karen deFriesse organized a great party. The tables were decorated with small holly arrangements, handmade gardener ornaments we could each take home, and homemade cookies for dessert. FGCCT 2nd Vice President Norma Jean Macauto (who is a club member) installed our officers for the 2025-2027 term: Joanne McKendry (President), Annie Casella (Vice-President), Pam Liming (Treasurer) and Dianne Mariano (Recording Secretary). The Club also surprised Joanne with the gift of a life membership in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ctgardenclubs?__cft__[0]=AZYklouZXAchNFPFibjVDHXLyGj64JMw66q3qgDDVsrNi_BslZZHOTXUgVaQVhAz4yBRiLiLUYl2ofyNQE0_tDMr7omyMwPK3OjcQgXQJL7u6fsdc_XuzPCDJ_yRMkhHbWooNnhI07AHbkNe_uQLdfHRUxELQNiMZCR6vXkwR4aTL4KBsR2MR4vltpWifNyBx7o&amp;__tn__=-]K-R\">Federated Garden Clubs of Connecticut<\/a>, a well-deserved tribute for all Joanne&#8217;s dedication. Such a fund and festive event. Happy holidays!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1920\" height=\"2560\" data-id=\"1277\" src=\"https:\/\/thegardenclubofbrookfieldct.org\/ClubMainWP1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Celebration-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1277\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" data-id=\"1276\" src=\"https:\/\/thegardenclubofbrookfieldct.org\/ClubMainWP1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Gardener-Ornaments-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1276\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thegardenclubofbrookfieldct.org\/ClubMainWP1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Gardener-Ornaments-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/thegardenclubofbrookfieldct.org\/ClubMainWP1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Gardener-Ornaments-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thegardenclubofbrookfieldct.org\/ClubMainWP1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Gardener-Ornaments-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thegardenclubofbrookfieldct.org\/ClubMainWP1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Gardener-Ornaments-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/thegardenclubofbrookfieldct.org\/ClubMainWP1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Gardener-Ornaments-2048x1536.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" data-id=\"1274\" src=\"https:\/\/thegardenclubofbrookfieldct.org\/ClubMainWP1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/FGCCT-Life-Member-1024x768.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1274\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thegardenclubofbrookfieldct.org\/ClubMainWP1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/FGCCT-Life-Member-1024x768.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/thegardenclubofbrookfieldct.org\/ClubMainWP1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/FGCCT-Life-Member-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/thegardenclubofbrookfieldct.org\/ClubMainWP1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/FGCCT-Life-Member-768x576.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/thegardenclubofbrookfieldct.org\/ClubMainWP1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/FGCCT-Life-Member-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/thegardenclubofbrookfieldct.org\/ClubMainWP1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/FGCCT-Life-Member-2048x1536.jpeg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" data-id=\"1275\" src=\"https:\/\/thegardenclubofbrookfieldct.org\/ClubMainWP1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Officer-Installation-1024x768.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1275\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thegardenclubofbrookfieldct.org\/ClubMainWP1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Officer-Installation-1024x768.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/thegardenclubofbrookfieldct.org\/ClubMainWP1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Officer-Installation-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/thegardenclubofbrookfieldct.org\/ClubMainWP1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Officer-Installation-768x576.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/thegardenclubofbrookfieldct.org\/ClubMainWP1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Officer-Installation-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/thegardenclubofbrookfieldct.org\/ClubMainWP1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Officer-Installation-2048x1536.jpeg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On December 11, twenty members of our club, decked out in the colors of the season, celebrated in style at our annual holiday luncheon. Hospitality Chairs Karen Frank and Karen deFriesse organized a great party. The tables were decorated with small holly arrangements, handmade gardener ornaments we could each take home, and homemade cookies for &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thegardenclubofbrookfieldct.org\/ClubMainWP1\/index.php\/2025\/12\/11\/2025-december-holiday-social\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;2025 December Holiday Social&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[8,10,9],"class_list":["post-1272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-brookfield-ct","tag-fgcct","tag-garden-club"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegardenclubofbrookfieldct.org\/ClubMainWP1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegardenclubofbrookfieldct.org\/ClubMainWP1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegardenclubofbrookfieldct.org\/ClubMainWP1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegardenclubofbrookfieldct.org\/ClubMainWP1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegardenclubofbrookfieldct.org\/ClubMainWP1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1272"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thegardenclubofbrookfieldct.org\/ClubMainWP1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1272\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1278,"href":"https:\/\/thegardenclubofbrookfieldct.org\/ClubMainWP1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1272\/revisions\/1278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegardenclubofbrookfieldct.org\/ClubMainWP1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegardenclubofbrookfieldct.org\/ClubMainWP1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegardenclubofbrookfieldct.org\/ClubMainWP1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}