Volunteers Finish 8-Year Odyssey with 5,000 Plants at Bern's Park
Seventy-five friends and neighbors -- and some who just wanted to help beautify the world -- turned out to complete the transformation of a former Hyde Park weed patch.
Volunteers as young as 3 and as old as 81 turned out in sweltering heat Saturday morning to plant 5,000 annuals and shrubs in Bern’s Park. Their work put the finishing touch on an eight-year collaboration of neighborhoods, the city, the non-profit Keep Tampa Bay Beautiful, and a family renowned for its steaks. “Without the plants, it would be just concrete and dirt,” said 11-year-old Audrey Abram of Historic Hyde Park as she planted African irises with her mom, Nell, and little brother Wade Jones. “It was always bare,” said Linda Giordano of the park at South DeSoto and South Howard avenues. “It was nothing. Ugly, scraggly.” Giordano, secretary of the Historic Hyde Park Garden Circle, worked with other club members to install 200 pink …
William
10:42 am on Sunday, June 19, 2011
It's nice to know the City of Tampa can spend $140,000 on an unnecessary park when they are cutting back on staff and services. Once again a small group controls how our money is spent. Ain't it just the way it is.... http://www.tampagov.net/appl_tampa_announcements/UploadedFiles/Files/ContractAdmin/11-C-00018_2010-1132_Berns_Parking_AwardU.pdf more ›