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Page 6 Local Town Pages www.hollistontownnews.com <strong>July</strong> <strong>2016</strong><br />
What’s Been Going on with <strong>Holliston</strong> in Bloom?<br />
America in Bloom Judges Coming 3 rd Week in <strong>July</strong>, Cleanup Planned<br />
A new pollinator garden was<br />
created at the Robert Adams<br />
Middle School on Community<br />
Service Day. Students cleared<br />
the area of the existing clumps<br />
of hosta and weeds earlier in the<br />
day. After school, RAMS teacher<br />
Mrs. Brook Doire with her Green<br />
Team students, and <strong>Holliston</strong> in<br />
Bloom member Cherry Fenton<br />
planted over 20 perennials including<br />
rudbeckia, sedum, salvia,<br />
butterfly bush, butterfly weed,<br />
coneflower, coreopsis and several<br />
types of annuals for summer and<br />
fall blooms that would attract<br />
pollinators. All the plants and<br />
bags of compost were donated by<br />
Ahronian Landscaping. The garden<br />
is located in a recessed nook<br />
that is open to the sky just to the<br />
right of the entrance when facing<br />
the school. Mrs. Doire and<br />
her students are excited to have<br />
participated in the selection of<br />
the plants and installing the new<br />
garden and have committed to<br />
caring for the plants even when<br />
school is not in session.<br />
The Senior Center planting<br />
(Phase 1) was completed on Saturday,<br />
June 11 and Sunday, June<br />
12 by two teams of <strong>Holliston</strong> in<br />
Bloom committee members and<br />
friends from the community.<br />
The Senior Center is undergoing<br />
a major transformation in<br />
<strong>July</strong> with more parking spaces<br />
and a sidewalk getting added. It<br />
had minimal plantings along its<br />
foundation previously. The entire<br />
side of the building closest to<br />
the parking lot as well as one side<br />
of the rear entrance was prepped<br />
and planted with shrubs, perennials<br />
and annuals. Also,<br />
the sign at the front entrance<br />
was weeded and<br />
<strong>Holliston</strong> Carnival & Fireworks<br />
The <strong>Holliston</strong> Lions Annual Carnival will<br />
take place from Wednesday, <strong>July</strong> 27th to Saturday,<br />
<strong>July</strong> 30th, open from 12 p.m. – 10 p.m.<br />
each day at <strong>Holliston</strong> High School, 370 Hollis<br />
Street, <strong>Holliston</strong>. Enjoy rides, Lions prepared<br />
food and games at this annual event. Wednesday<br />
will be bracelet night, and fireworks will<br />
take place on Saturday night.<br />
For more information on the <strong>Holliston</strong><br />
Lions, visit www.<strong>Holliston</strong>lions.org.<br />
mulched and the newly planted<br />
areas from the weekend were<br />
edged and mulched. Dozens of<br />
beautiful Proven Winner shrubs<br />
and perennials were generously<br />
donated by the Huntington/<br />
Cohen family for the Senior<br />
Center (and Police Station) project.<br />
Annuals and several yards<br />
of mulch were also donated by<br />
Ahronian Landscaping. Watch<br />
for details for the Phase 2 planting<br />
which is tentatively scheduled<br />
for September.<br />
WORK AHEAD & CEL-<br />
EBRATIONOur second Annual<br />
HIB Town-wide<br />
Cleanup is scheduled<br />
for the weekend of<br />
<strong>July</strong> 16 and 17. We<br />
will need as many volunteers<br />
as possible to<br />
clean up various locations<br />
throughout <strong>Holliston</strong><br />
including downtown, the Historical<br />
Society, Stoddard Park and<br />
the Senior Center. Please check<br />
in at the command center at<br />
Blair Square by 10 a.m. Neighborhood<br />
groups, Boys Scouts,<br />
Girl Scouts, organizations, businesses,<br />
families and friends are all<br />
invited to help polish up our town<br />
in anticipation of the arrival of<br />
the two America in Bloom judges<br />
the following week. <strong>Holliston</strong> in<br />
Bloom has participated in the<br />
national America in Bloom competition<br />
since 2012 and has won<br />
two times for its population size as<br />
well as garnering special awards<br />
for Historical Preservation and<br />
Outstanding Community Involvement.<br />
The Community<br />
Celebration will be held the<br />
evening of Thursday, <strong>July</strong> 21 at<br />
the Historical Society. Watch<br />
the <strong>Holliston</strong> Reporter and our<br />
Facebook page for details as the<br />
date approaches. Donations of<br />
bite-size appetizers would be<br />
graciously accepted. In October<br />
2017, our town will be hosting<br />
the National Symposium for<br />
the first time in New England!<br />
Please support our projects by<br />
donating via PayPal at www.hollistoninbloom.org<br />
and by volunteering<br />
for our beautification<br />
projects. We are a 501 (c) (3) organization<br />
so your donations are<br />
tax-deductible.<br />
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<strong>July</strong> 22<br />
10am – 4pm<br />
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Now thru<br />
<strong>July</strong> 15th<br />
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Closed <strong>July</strong> 4th
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