<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large">I ditto George's and everyone else's comments. What a wonderful outreach for FUUSM too and hope we'll be able to keep community members involved. Wish I could have been there to join you, but was there in spirit. Thanks everyone for this wonderful "blooming" project- so inspiring to see the diverse group of people benefiting and getting inspired about what they can also do. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large">Thanks so very much Rebecca and all who have helped.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large">Cinduy</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Aug 2, 2021 at 10:34 AM gbanz42--- via Green <<a href="mailto:green@fuusm.org">green@fuusm.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Rebecca,<br>
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Kudos to you for the organization, knowledge, and passion you have brought to this project. Great news about the Marathon truck site--perhaps other corporate supporters will emerge.<br>
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---- Rebecca Phillips via Green <<a href="mailto:green@fuusm.org" target="_blank">green@fuusm.org</a>> wrote: <br>
> Hello, all,<br>
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> The pollinator habitat table at Harmar Days seems to have been a success.<br>
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> * We gave out all 150 seed packets (and could have given more--at least two people asked after we ran out) and an equal number of handouts. One Columbus-area resident is distributing our information sheet and seed packet to several neighbors for a possible Homegrown National Park neighborhood there.<br>
> * We added fifteen names to the list of possible volunteers for the fall planting push. Two of these names are people associated with Veritas Academy (a student and the wife of a philosophy instructor), something I did not expect.<br>
> * Two women from Tyler County left their names and are interested in the possibility of municipal pollinator plantings in Friendly.<br>
> * There were four "official" guided walks, and several visitors to the table mentioned walking the site and reading the signs on their own.<br>
> * A manager at the Marathon Petroleum truck site on Route 7 has asked for a consultation on an area the company intends to designate as a pollinator sanctuary. He also mentioned the possibility of grant money but will need to look into whether a church is the kind of nonprofit that can apply.<br>
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> A big "thank-you" to our volunteers Dave and Shari Ballantyne, George Banziger, Andrew Clovis, and Claire Mullen.<br>
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> Rebecca<br>
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> "If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need."-- Cicero<br>
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George Banziger<br>
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