Hey, when was the last time that you got propositioned???
This is in the nature of a community service…sorta.
Plenty of folks from all over the region come to The Y here in Garrettsville, on Park Ave.; the building has quite the history, from 1939when it was constructed(and attached to the old building which was there from the 1880’s). State -of-the-art for the time. It had a number of incarnations, from K-12 to K-8 to 7-8 to 5-6 (sometimes in conjunction with the nearby Methodist Church) to mostly district storage when all grades moved to their current location on a unified campus. The “old building”was removed around 2000 but remnants of it are visible on the east side lower level housing the furnace room–those old gray stones holding up the brickwork. So anyway, for an 88-year-old building, it’s looking pretty good. Plus, it’s the site of the”official”sledding hill every winter when there’s enough snow. The front lawn boasts a flagpole, two trees (planted by good-hearted classes), a memorial marker with a flowering tree and two separate boxes with flowers.
It is these boxes which I wish to address :
They have lotsa flowers–wildish ones, flowering clover,mostly ones I do not know the names of, yellow ones, blue ones, purple ones, pink and/or yellow ones, a couple of strawberry plants, a row of rubber duckies on the top rail of one box, an illustrated guide to the native varieties friendly to-pollinators found in the other. Solar power lights up three mushrooms in the left-hand box the right-hand one grows exuberantly tall; bees have a hideout by the walk.
So what’s the point?
The flowers are terrific but the boxes are falling apart.
Is there somebody out there (Somebody with a little construction expertise, someone with a backhoe and/or a wagon, a volunteer group to address improvements to the look of one of the most-visited places in the village) who might be willing to update and elevate the appearance of the whole place?
The original greenery was put in place by some regular users of the The Y and by the PCSWCD (Portage County Soil and Water Conservation District). Maybe they’d do it again; maybe somebody else would like to undertake this project.
Think about it. Could be your mitzvah for the year.
