[Green] Harmar Days report

[gbanz42 at suddenlink.net]

Rebecca,

    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.


---- Rebecca Phillips via Green <green at fuusm.org> wrote: 
> Hello, all,
> 
> The pollinator habitat table at Harmar Days seems to have been a success.
> 
>   *   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.
>   *   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.
>   *   Two women from Tyler County left their names and are interested in the possibility of municipal pollinator plantings in Friendly.
>   *   There were four "official" guided walks, and several visitors to the table mentioned walking the site and reading the signs on their own.
>   *   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.
> 
> A big "thank-you" to our volunteers Dave and Shari Ballantyne, George Banziger, Andrew Clovis, and Claire Mullen.
> 
> Rebecca
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> 
> "If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need."-- Cicero

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