Garden District Completes Neighborhood SUCCESS Grant Project

Valley groups form partnership to beautify neighborhood

Members of the Garden District Block Watch – located on Youngstown’s West Side – recently completed a neighborhood project which they have titled “Growing the Garden District Together”.

The project seeks to replace older, dead trees in the existing devil strips. The trees had become eyesores and also created situations where falling branches damaged homes, vehicles, power lines and buckled sidewalks. The project called not only to remove the dead trees but also to replace them with new ones.

Members of the neighborhood group partnered with Treez Please, Mill Creek Park and the City of Youngstown to create a work plan for the project. They then worked with MVOC and the Raymond John Wean Foundation to complete a Neighborhood SUCCESS Grant in which they successfully received funding.

“The Garden District Neighborhood's plan of action and involvement of residents is improving and is expected to reach new levels of achievement in 2010”, said Garden District President Jerry O’Hara.

For more information about the Garden District, contact Mr. O’Hara at (330) 799-9879.

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