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KAB to Host Rain Garden Clinic
Last year Keep Akron Beautiful hosted a Rain Barrel Clinic for the public to comply with the community education strategies in the city’s Greenprint for Akron sustainability plan. This summer, the agency is collaborating with the Summit Soil & Water Conservation District to offer residents of the county a free Rain Garden Workshop on Wednesday, August 11, 2010 at Voris Community Learning Center, 1885 Glenmount Avenue.
Keep Akron Beautiful received a 2010 grant award from the The Corbin Foundation to plan, plant and maintain a demonstration rain garden where the citizens of Akron can come to observe how to construct one and discover how the gardens work to capture and filter water runoff from impervious surfaces around a building-such as rooftops and driveways.
Akron City Council Representative Tina Merlitti has always been concerned about the flood plain of the Brewster Creek in Ward 7. Members of the Green Ribbon Panel began the search for a site in her ward, close to affected residents. Mark Moore, City Engineer and the Akron Public Schools Superintendent David James agreed that Voris Elementary School would be a good location for the native plant garden and rain barrel installation.
Cindy Fink and Sandy Barbaric, of the Soil & Water Conservation District have been supervising the garden construction with donated sandy soil mix and mulch from the Kurtz Brothers, who run the Akron Compost Facility.
Mark you calendars for Wednesday, August 11, 2010 from 7-9 p.m. at Voris Community Learning Center for the FREE rain garden clinic with school hostesses Principal Kathleen Koehler and Teacher Linda Parsell. Rain garden plants from Ohio Prairie Nursery will be given out as door prizes.
Remember, it's up to all of us
KAB Offering Graffiti Removal on Private Property
Starting in April, Keep Akron Beautiful will be offering graffiti removal to owners of private and commerical property. The cost to the property owner would be $50. Anyone wishing to have graffiti removed may call 3-1-1.
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Click here to watch the segment Channel 3 News did on our Graffiti Removal truck.
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Lucky Citizen Dreamscape Winner Number 7!
For the seventh year, 988 owners of Summit County businesses or residences entered to win a professionally designed front or back yard makeover valued at $10,000. Keep Akron Beautiful (KAB) raised over $21,380 this year to support its public land beautification program, Flowerscape. This year, KAB raffle tickets were $25 each or five for $100. Tickets were sold at our seven Vendor Partner retail locations.
The winning ticket was drawn on Thursday, June 3, 2010, at 10:30 a.m. at Alexander Park on West Market Street by last year’s winner Virginia Robinson. The winner of the grand prize is Dr. Henry Kraus of West Akron, and he will have until the end of June to meet with the designer Ellen Ehlert, of R. B. Stout. Inc. to create a design for the landscape transformation blitz, set to take place August 2-6, 2010. Here are the other ticket holders who won the following runner-up prizes donated by Dreamscape’s generous Vendor Partners:
1st Runner-up: Frank LaRose of Akron will have his choice of mulch or compost blown into his landscaped beds by TerraScape Ltd., owned by Mike Clar.
2nd Runner-up: Dayle Davis of Fairlawn won tree maintenance or stump grinding done by Greg Walent of Walent Tree Service.
3rd Runner-up: Terry Holland of Stow will receive a $100 gift basket of gardening supplies donated by Graf Growers.
4th Runner-up Rob Keres of Akron will receive a garden statue donated by Suncrest Gardens.
Graft Growers also donated two hanging baskets that were awarded to the top ticket sellers: Capt. Dan Zampelli, of the KAB Board of Directors, and Eric Jones, of the KAB Beautification Board.
*All proceeds from the ticket sales will be used to fund the Keep Akron Beautiful Flowerscape program which plants and maintains 40 Flowerscape sites annually in Akron
