Submitted by Steve Siders, Project Chair for our Peace Garden at North Park

We had two beautiful days with many club members volunteering to help enhance our Peace Garden at North Park on November 8th and 15th. The garden is now officially rebranded the Peace Garden and we've planted a second Peace Pole closer to the front entrance to draw visitors in. The back garden has been updated with a cleaning, refurbished Peace Pole and mulch. The front garden has been created from scratch to include a new Peace Pole, some boulders, mulch and 40 new plants including a Japanese Maple, spreading plum yew, oakleaf hydrangea, autumn fern and black-eyed susans. 

I would like to thank our many volunteers for the work accomplished over the two days. We had about 15 at both work days covering 2 hours and 2.5 hours respectively (that is about 68 man hours total). After our hard work, we were able to enjoy even more fellowship together at Cue Barbecue both days.

I am grateful for the support of our project committee: Stacey Nyman, Carolynn DeSandre, Kathleen Peneguy, Andy West, Rick Clark, and Richard Matherly. Special recognition goes to the following three people for their extra effort: Rick Clark, for building and installing the new Peace Pole; Andy West, for refurbishing the existing wooden Peace Pole; and Brad Serff, who picked up the plants and saved our back with his auger!