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Volunteers restore landscaping on Freeport city-owned lots, cite 134 hours of labor and modest supply needs
Summary
Members of the Pretzel Gardeners and students from Banksburg Agnew told the Freeport City Council they spent 134 volunteer hours clearing weeds, replacing weed barrier and adding mulch at city lots and asked the council to consider small budget items for supplies.
Lynette Williams and a volunteer group called the Pretzel Gardeners told the Freeport City Council they have been cleaning and replanting landscaping on several Freeport city-owned lots and estimate their labor saved the city roughly $2,700 in paid work. "My crew worked a hundred and 34 hours on this," Williams said during her presentation to the council.
The work addressed overgrown municipal lots near Douglas and Van Buren, the parking lot by Stevenson and Liberty, and several triangular medians. Williams said volunteers removed an old fabric weed barrier,…
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