2009 Carolina District Mid-Winter Meeting Event Schedule
Friday, January 30 ~ Sunday, February 1, 2026
Hosted by: Wilmington Cape Fear Rose Society
Holiday Inn Sunspree Resort
1706 North Lumina Avenue
Wrightsville Beach, NC 28480

FRIDAY – January 30th

3:00 ~ 9:00  Registration in Concourse (Please drop off your donation for the auction at this time)
3:00 ~ 9:00  Vendor Product Sales
Dinner On your own
7:15 ~ 8:00  District Council/Society Presidents Meeting
8:00 ~ 8: 45  Taylor Pike – Running a Family Rose Business
9:00 ~ 9:30  Carolina District Board Meeting

SATURDAY- January 31st

Breakfast On your own
7:00 ~ 5:00  Vendor Product Sales
8:15 ~ 8:30  Welcome - Bill Hartzell
Richard Donovan Carolina District Director
8:30 ~ 8:45  Vendor Introduction
8:45 ~ 9:30  Fred Bettin - Companion Planting for Roses
9:30 ~ 10:15  Micheal Williams - Hybridizing Techniques for New Roses
10:15 ~ 10:30  Break
10:30 ~ 11:15  Geoff Coolidge - Controlling Insects Pests in Your Roses
CR Credit Given
11:15 ~ 12:00  Louise Bennett – Rose Arranging With a Twist
12:00 ~ 1:30  Lunch – On your own
1:30 ~ 2:15 Sandy Lundberg- Sandy’s Picks for 2009
2:15 ~ 3:10 Bob Martin – Candidate for ARS Vice-President
"Why I Would Make the Best Future ARS President" 
Program - "Weird Rose Science"
3:10 ~ 3:25 Break
3:25 ~ 4:20 Jolene Adams - Candidate for ARS Vice- President
"Why I Would Make the Best Future ARS President" 
Program - "Tigers in the Garden"
6:00 ~ 6:30 Social - Cash Bar
6:30 ~ Until Awards Banquet/Auction in the Lumina Ballroom

SUNDAY- February 1st

7:00 ~ 11:00 Vendor Sales at their discretion
8:30 am District Business Meeting