New Provisional Members 2023-2024
Amy Paine
Welcome to our eight new provisional members! We are excited to introduce this engaging, talented and civic minded group of women, with varied interests including horticulture, flower arranging and conservation. Look for them at the June 28 Annual Meeting.
Nicole Chauvette: According to her proposer and seconders, Nicole is “bright, positive, has quick wit and exudes enthusiasm.” Sounds like a perfect fit for SLGC! A former nurse midwife, with four grown children, she is now looking forward to the next chapter and becoming involved in new interests which include landscape design and horticulture. She enjoys traveling, reading, and is passionate about women’s health access and education. She has been involved in Planned Parenthood and as the President of the Hathaway Brown Parents Association. She and her husband, Derek, live in Shaker Heights.
Megan McMahon: Megan is a dedicated volunteer who works for causes that she believes will help communities, including United Cerebral Palsy Foundation, Sunbeam, her children’s schools and more. She is an avid gardener who spends her free time in her vegetable and herb gardens. She is a composter and has managed to incorporate this into a family activity with her four children. She is eager to learn more about plants and ecology and the charitable projects that Shaker Lakes Garden Club supports. She and her husband, Mike, moved to Cleveland twenty years ago and live in Pepper Pike.
Tasha Mixon: Tasha is passionate about education and continues to further her knowledge in the field, as she loves to read and stay current. She is an executive functioning tutor for middle, high school and college students, a Wilson Reading Systems tutor and a former Integrative Health Practitioner focused on gut health. She has an organic vegetable garden and is currently studying herbs and herbalism and how to use herbs not only for cooking but also to improve our lifestyles. She is excited to learn more about conservation and environmental protection. She and her husband, Ki, have two daughters and live in Shaker Heights.
Halley Moore: Halley enjoys to read, write, garden, cook, hike and spend time outdoors with her husband, Jason Drake, and her three children and two dogs. She is committed to a variety of local organizations including the Western Reserve Land Conservancy, LAND Studio, The Cleveland Food Bank, The Foundry and the Cleveland Museum of Natural History. She enjoys all types of flower and vegetable gardening. She is a passionate conservationist and looks forward to helping Shaker Lakes Garden Club’s pursuits on preservation and sustainability. She lives in Shaker Heights and is the primary manager of her family property in Burton, overseeing all aspects of the land’s upkeep and conservation.
Molly Ritts: Molly started her career in Cleveland as a social worker and more recently began working for Big Hearted Blooms, a non-profit organization that delivers joy through recycled flowers. She is also involved at Church of the Saviour and with the Shaker Heights Schools. With her role at Big Hearted Blooms, she can be found running the flower arranging workshops, coordinating the flower pickups from events and grocery stores and delivering the flowers to beneficiaries. She looks forward to learning more about horticulture and flower arranging. She and her husband Geoff have lived in Shaker Heights for 25 years with their three boys.
Sasha Sipershteyn: Sasha’s interest in gardening began as a young child after being introduced to gardening by her grandmother in the community garden outside the city she where she grew up. Her mother continued instilling this passion in her and ‘taught her everything she knows’. Her interests lie in home gardens as well as flower arranging and she wants to learn how to better care for plants and how to propagate and graft. She and her husband, Mike, have two children and live in Orange Village where she has a secret garden for her daughter in which she houses all of her experimental plants.
Wendy Weil: Wendy is a mental health professional at Mindfulness Counseling. She has a true passion for learning more about gardening and enjoys adding to and building upon her impressive garden that was recently featured in the Cleveland Heights garden tour. Wendy has a wonderful creative side. In her free time, she loves to paint and she enjoys photography, often times taking pictures of her garden. Wendy and her husband Rob live in Cleveland Heights.
Ann Zellmer: Ann is involved in many civic organizations, including Judson Retirement Board, the board of Greater Cleveland Volunteers and the Women’s Council of the Cleveland Museum of Art where she freely admits that her favorite activity is helping to arrange the flowers in the lobby. As a retired lawyer for the Cleveland Clinic, she is now looking to expand her horticultural knowledge with a particular interest in container gardening and flower arranging. She and her husband, Chuck, live in Orange Village and have two daughters and four grandchildren.