Horizons Joins Hands
The Beautification Task Force that came out of the Bowdon Horizons Community Visioning applied for and received a $500 grant from the Sheridan-Wells Chapter of Thrivent for Join Hands Day, and what a day it was! Twenty-five hardy souls gathered together to beautify Bowdon’s Main Street with barrels of flowers, a complete relandscaping of the front of the Community Center and the planting of four memorial dogwood trees to the south of the Community Center.
We had children, students, young mothers, contractors, retired people, and the “able elderly” out digging, scraping away old soil, cleaning rocks, and planting perennials and annuals up and down the street.
Still to come is the relocation of the “Welcome to Bowdon” sign from the highway to the edge of town (a larger sign which will be easier to see from a distance will be erected by the highway); flowerboxes for the old grain wagon located between Jones’ and the Cafe (thank yous to Brian Tebelius for loaning the wagon to us); and the relighting of the school evergreen in seasonal lights. We’re also on the lookout for more wagons, manure spreaders, or other antique farm implements to grace Main Street.
The final activity of the day was the planting of four dogwood trees in memory of Tim Reberg, Wade Unterseher, Jim Fike, and Dick Martin, who are missed greatly by the community.