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Posted May 15th, 2007 by slsmith819
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Thanks to everyone who risked life and limb to plant perennials in the Quigley Road Roundabout. A group of about 10 gardeners and neighbors started at 10 a.m. on Sunday, May 12 and had the thing knocked out before noon.

This is a major gateway into Tremont and the first of seven "gateway gardens" planned for the neighborhood with completion dates scheduled sometime during the next 2 years.

Saturday, May 19, more neighbors and gardeners will purchase flowers at the Tremont Flower Sale to finish off the Roundabout plantings with some bright color. The sale starts at 9 a.m. in Lincoln Park at the corner of Kenilworth Ave. and W. 14th Street. Flats are $10 (one of the best prices in town) and we will have some rose bushes and hydrangeas, as well as some 4-inch pots of annuals.

So, if you're driving around the Roundabout on the morning of May 19 and see people working in the garden, slow (the "f") down, save a gardener's life and enjoy the flowers and public art.

Sandy Smith

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Nice work on the Roundabout.

On May 16th, 2007 FlyingScooter says:

Nice work on the Roundabout. The flowers look nice. They are the only thing I like about that dreaded intersection.

Thanks, Flying

On May 16th, 2007 slsmith819 says:

Thanks, Flying Scooter!

Update from last night's gardeners' meeting...looks like we will be working on the Scranton/Train/Fairfield intersection the first couple of days in June. Some students from Oberlin College have volunteered to work in the neighborhood for a couple of days and they will paint the bridge support for us (it will be a big "Welcome to Tremont" sign). We'll do the planting of a garden underneath later in June.

Thanks to the Oberlin folks and Matt Martin, who works at Stockyards Development Corp., who offered to "loan" us the students for the project.

Also, thanks to the RiverSweep volunteers who cleaned up the mess along the ODOT fence that separates Wade Ave. and I-90 between W. 25th and Scranton. Up next is to paint the guardrail that runs along the street. It's pretty rusty and banged up.

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