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TOWN Board
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Expand TOWN Board
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A letter recruiting new members
will be sent next week.
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Meetings
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How would we like to schedule the
meetings for the rest of the year?
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Meetings will be scheduled for
the second Wednesday of the month.
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WOW (Working on Waukegan)
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The city is working to raise the
environmental awareness of its citizens by creating a group that would organize
projects for volunteers to work on. The first event is this Saturday from
9-12. Please forward the email I sent you to anyone that may be interested in
‘working on Waukegan’.
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Materials
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Do we have enough soil, compost
and wood chips to get us through the end of May?
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I ordered 5 cu yds of compost and container mix. I purchased a garden
cart, 6 buckets, 1 75 foot garden hose, 3 75foot soaker hoses, 2 60 foot
soaker hoses and a hose ? Router to connect the
soaker hoses to the regular hose.
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New raised bed and flower bed
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Julie Dodds
has taken the offer to work to create one of the new raised beds and work on
an existing flowerbed.
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Julie will guide volunteers to
the creation of the raised beds. She will also work on one of the flowerbeds.
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GTW Events
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Earth Day, Music and Art
Festival, Closing Event, Educational Event
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It rained on Earth Day. Other
events will be scheduled during the summer. We will work with Larry to
schedule a music Event in August or September.
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Website
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Update website to reflect the
changes we have taken. Funders will be looking at
an out of date website.
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I will provide website changes by
05/14/09.
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Fundraisers
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Music and Art festival will be a fundraiser.
A letter to local business has been drafted but not finalized. This letter
will be sent out the week after next.. Please keep a
running list of possible businesses that we can approach. I would like to
have someone available to help me create the labels and stuff envelopes.
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Plants
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I will begin the search for free
plants in April and May. Please let me know what we would need.
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I have sent letters to Jamaican Gardens,
Gurnee Garden Center,
Larsen’s Florist, and Midwest Groundcovers. I will try to call each of these
before the weekend. I will pick up flowers from Chicago Botanic Gardens on 05/18/09.
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Seeds
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Dan Traynoff
has a greenhouse and has offered to start our seeds.
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Dan has picked up the seeds and
will begin to grow them in his greenhouse so that we will have small plants
to plant in May. I purchased strawberry plants to plant this weekend. I also
have herbs for planning.
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Trees
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Please provide me with a list of
possible trees we could use.
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Margaret Martin provided us with a
list of trees that we should look at. If anyone would like to take the role
of calling for trees should contact me. I will contact The Care of Trees came
out the end of last week. The will either provide us with free tree or
provide them to us for a discount.
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Statuettes
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Radio shows
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DK Environmental and EarthWild
Gardens did a pod cast
show last Wednesday. Cheryl Pytlarz and other
members of the group would like to run a 10 series program on issues such as how
to identify where to put your garden, how to start seeds, which seeds should
be direct seeded, canning and so many more.
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Education
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We are working with The Academy
of Our Lady school after school club will help at the garden the last Thursday
of the month.
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Volunteers
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Budget
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Please review the 2009 budget and
provide me with any changes that should be made.
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Parking Lot: Com Ed and the use
of the land under the power lines for growing food or grains. Ravines, and locally grown food.
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