Volunteers again fill Slippery Rock with flowers
SLIPPERY ROCK — A drive through downtown shows a postcard-pretty vista full of bright flowers, full green shrubbery and clean streets. One of the major sources behind the beautification of the small town is a volunteer organization called Slippery Rock in Bloom.
Saturday was spring planting day for Slippery Rock in Bloom, an 11-year-old project of the Slippery Rock Rotary Club. Project chairwoman Regina Greenwald said she believes the group has helped revitalize the town.
Twice a year the group plants flowers — annuals in the spring and tulips in the fall — around Memorial Park and the large, centrally located Sheetz store. It also maintains a number of large planter pots along Main Street and throughout the borough’s 2 square miles.
Saturday’s planting was accomplished with the help of volunteers, including some members of the Slippery Rock University men’s basketball team, whose coach — Ian Grady — happens to be president of the Slippery Rock Rotary Club. He recruited basketball forward LaShon Lindsey, a sophomore majoring in health and physical education, and guard Jomo Goings, a sophomore business major. Neither volunteer minded getting their hands dirty, digging out space and planting new annuals.
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