A Thank You To Some Great Lisbon Community Volunteers

Submitted by Faye Brown

Many thanks to the 2009 Green Thumb Gang volunteer!

Our 13^th season of planting and maintaining garden spots around the town was a challenging one- relentless rain in the Spring, reconstruction of roads, then weeks in late summer with no rain! Call Faye at 353-2728 for information about volunteering in 2010.

Before thanking our volunteers, I would like to express a huge appreciation to two landscaping businesses for taking over three major gardens and all related costs for this season. Pine Knoll has created beautiful gardens and planters at the Topsham line ‘Welcome to Lisbon’ sign and also in the front of the MTM Center. In addition to the beautiful donations to the town, the gardens at their business location on Lisbon Road and the Lisbon Credit Union are magnificent additions to our town landscapes.

Riverbend Landscaping of Durham has created several lovely gardens at the Durham ‘Welcome to Lisbon’ sign. If you were fortunate to see the gardens at their nicest , that is to say, before the resident woodchuck ate them down to nubs, they were lovely. Owner James Herling invested a lot trying to find something that our ‘friend’ might pass up, but it was another tough year for Riverbend, and another tasty year for Chuckie. Thank you for all your efforts, James, and despite the pest, it still looked very nice and maintained.

Thanks to our Green Thumb Gang 2009 Volunteers.

The Oak Street Park Gardens-Andrew Bucher & family members, Barbara Kazimer and family and Faye Brown

Maple/Summer Street Garden- JulieAnn Baumer

‘Worumbo Mill Wheels’Garden on 196/School St- Faye Brown

Civil War Monument- Kazimer Family, Faye Brown

High School Veterans Monument –Pauline Gendron and Girl Scouts Troop 3313

Gazebo Park-Faye Brown, Ryan & Michael Connnoly

Planters in Rte 9 strip- Linda& Sally

Transfer Station-Anita Marenius

Miller Park Planters- Noyes Lawrence

Lisbon Banking before Graziano’s – Lise Tancrede

Village Street Garden In Memory Of Moe Breton- Moe’s family

Smith & McCarthy Park- Missy & Ashley Griffin ( trees and shrubs pruning, weeding& mulching)

Ryan & Michael Connoly , (weeding, plant donations & mulching) A BIG THANKS for a huge amount of work done in this area.

Riverbank Garden- Pauline Gendron & Girl Scouts

Webster St. Memorial- Faye Brown

Thomas Field Memorial Park-Sherri & Shelley Voight

Outer Lisbon ‘Welcome’ Sign- Luella Merriman, Fern Libby

In kind donations:

Repainting the Pilgrims, Linda & Gary Gamrat

Making stars for the gazebo, Kyle Sheehan as a scout project

Gift of a ‘Kousa’ Dogwood tree in Gazebo Park in memory of Lionel Tupper by Crosman Funeral Home

Inscribed granite bench in Gazebo Park in memory of Lionel Tupper from Pine Knoll Landscaping

General helping hands- Rufus Ham, Mike Scully & Dennis Gagne