Sometime Monday night
someone stole solar lights from the School Street/
Route 196 Town Public
Flower Garden.
On Monday, Public Works
placed solar lights in the ground around the outside
perimeter of the garden,
hopefully to prevent vehicles from crashing through it,
damaging shrubs, flowers,
and the Worumbo Mill Wheels, again.
This happens at least once
a year. The tire marks are still there on the School
Street side, from the last
time someone drove into the garden. A beautiful, large
bush was driven into, torn
from it's roots and had to be removed, and the wheels
were damaged,
again.
Several years ago a tree
was planted in the garden in memory of Nancy Chizmar,
long time State of Maine
Representative in Augusta. Someone ploughed into the
garden with enough force to almost uproot the
tree.
Sadly the tree did not make
it.
The solar lights was
supposed to prevent that from happening.
They were an attractive
addition to the Town Garden during the day,
and were beautiful at
night. At least on Monday night, until vandals decided
different.
On Tuesday I noticed
that some of the solar lights were placed in different
spots,
with only 3 or 4 still in
the perimeter, the rest, missing.
How many times does the
town have to replant bushes that have been destroyed
because someone misses the
curve and ploughs into the garden?
How many times can the
Worumbo Mill Wheels be repaired before they are damaged
beyond repair?
Faye Brown first planted
the garden, and the Green Thumb Gang was born.
Faye is also
responsible for
rescuing the Worumbo Mill Wheels, to be on display
as a reminder of
the our heritage.
It would be nice if the
vandal or vandals who stole the lights have a change of
heart
and leave them at the
police station so they can be put back in the
garden,
to be enjoyed by all.
Dorothy B.
Fitzgerald
A Concerned
Lisbon Citizen