MONROE — Several businesses, community organizations and individuals stepped forward to landscape the city’s street islands and put up planter pots and hanging flower baskets along Main and Lewis streets in the center of town.
The plants and the donation of time was valued at more than $4,000.
Budget cuts have halted the city’s ability to purchase the annual flowers.
Here are the groups that helped:
Downtown Hanging Baskets:
•Republic Services, a $500 donation for flowers for the downtown hanging baskets.
Pine Creek Nursery, for supplying the flowers at a discount.
Monroe Garden Club, for potting the baskets.
Downtown Planter Pots:
•Monroe Garden Club, a $500 donation to city for purchase of flowers and planting the flowers.
Monroe Lowes, for supplying the flowers at a discount.
Main and Lewis Street Islands Landscape Ends
•Washington State Reformatory, for growing 2,500 “Dazzler” impatiens and installation by offender work crews.
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