Kay Beamer received the Monongalia County Master Gardener of the Year award recently at the annual West Virginia Master Gardener Conference. She has been a certified Master Gardener since Kay was a member of the first Master Gardener class held in 1998 and is the only remaining active certified member of that class and has acted as the organization’s Program Committee Chairperson for several years.
Kay is a member of the First Ward Community Association which was responsible for saving the First Ward School yard as “green space” for the First Ward neighborhoods and creating Jack Roberts Park. She helped establish the gardens within the park and, most recently, she and others are working with the Native Plant Society in establishing a native plant butterfly garden at Jack Roberts Park. She is a member of the Durbannah Garden Club which maintains flower beds within White Park and helped plant the flower beds at the Ronald McDonald House. In addition, Kay is a member of the Morgantown Tree Board, the Audubon Society, the Red Cross, the Wesley Foundation, the WVU Christian Council, and Vice-President of the WVU Credit Union. Regardless of all her organizational activities, this busy mother and grandmother always puts her family “first.”
