Wow! Did we ever accomplish a great on our Saturday, June 4th Work Day! Vice-Chair Matt Mattoon, assisted by Karen Lucey, John Grobe, and Joe Kernan, worked to camouflage our new irrigation pipes to the Pond Pollinator Gardens (Where’d they go?) and placed some logs into the pond for the turtles (per Rita Kernan’s suggestion). Our high school volunteers, Nathanael and Thaddaeus Rios, spread milled asphalt on the entrance roadway to fill in some nascent potholes! Fearless Leaders and Co-Chairs Jack Coleman and Bob Clemens, assisted by Sal Goia, cleared a metric ton* of vegetation from an area we hope will add a space or two to our parking lot. (*Okay. Maybe a bit less than a metric ton, but it was a big pile.) Mary Ellen Blankenship worked in the Parking Lot Pollinator Gardens, building bamboo tripods as trellises for the passionflower vines. Meanwhile David and Julia Buzzard tackled encroaching vegetation of the Branch Wood Trail. Finally, Vice-Chair Rita Kernan hosted a group on a guided tour of the Preserve. At times the parking lot was overflowing with vehicles, and that’s a good thing! Slightly unrelated is that we collected over $800 from the Donation Post in May and over 300 visitors signed the clipboard.
