Cluster Two Play and Grow Shows Community Pride
Donna Handel is celebrating her 92nd birthday today and to mark the occasion posed for a picture in front of the new sign on the future Play and Grow Lot at 3347 N. 3rd Street. The sign doubles as a bulletin board for updates on Cluster Two and Harambee Great Neighborhood happenings to help the garden become a neighborhood gathering place. Stop by to see it grow!
A Play and Grow Lot is a community garden and natural playground, where children can play while older neighbors watch and tend their gardens. In spring, a new garden was planted on this vacant lot. Roberta Lyles and Donna Handel are the Cluster Two residents who live across the street, dreamed up this concept and are working to make it a reality by raising funds for the playground. The Great Neighborhoods program has engaged a landscape architect to begin working with them to design the play area.
More projects like this can be developed throughout the Harambee Community as Community Pride projects. For information on how to plan and apply, resident groups should contact Nannette Smith at 414.264.7822 or smithng@harambeeombudsman.org.
A Play and Grow Lot is a community garden and natural playground, where children can play while older neighbors watch and tend their gardens. In spring, a new garden was planted on this vacant lot. Roberta Lyles and Donna Handel are the Cluster Two residents who live across the street, dreamed up this concept and are working to make it a reality by raising funds for the playground. The Great Neighborhoods program has engaged a landscape architect to begin working with them to design the play area.
More projects like this can be developed throughout the Harambee Community as Community Pride projects. For information on how to plan and apply, resident groups should contact Nannette Smith at 414.264.7822 or smithng@harambeeombudsman.org.
