Volunteers from a Palatine electric company planted tomatoes, zucchini and four kinds of squash at Algonquin's Wastewater Treatment Facility Monday to raise produce for the Algonquin Lake in the Hills Food Pantry.
The original Public Works plan had been to plant decorative vines at the plant but Trustee Jim Steigert who designed the Pantry's new facility on Pyott Road suggested veggies might be more helpful to some residents. About 20 employees at the Schneider Electric which gives its workers a day to do community service agreed to plant the garden.
Algonquin Water and Utilities chief Andy Warmus said village workers would tend the garden. "A lot of them volunteered to take care of it on their lunch hours," said Warmus. He said they'll sprinkle the garden with water from the village's potable supply, not water from the discharge side.
Tuesday, June 26, 2012
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I have removed a series of postings chastising FEN for not properly covering the gardeners working on the Pantry plots. All credit to them for their hard work. FEN will try to do better over the course of the Summer.--ed.
Still can't come up with a reason why you have a comments section if your not going to leave relevant comments up? I mean I can see deleting spam type comments people trying to advertise a product or something but if you just delete comments instead of responding to them that makes you a pretty poor wordsmith so again I'll ask a simple direct question and we will see if you can answer or not Why do you even have a comment section if your just going to delete the comments?
I agree with the above poster, anytime someone says something that isn't glowing praise you just delete it? I mean it's your blog do what you please, but then get rid of the comment section. Unless that is you just post your comments to make yourself feel good at night.
I deleted the comments which appeared to be from one (anonymous) person because they seemed to suggest some of the folks working on the Pantry gardens are petty, self-pitying glory hounds. I don't believe that's the case. And, yeah, since I'm the editor, it's my call.--ed.
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