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Partners in Patriotism Fund Helps Beautify Town Common
The Partners in Patriotism Fund recently donated $4,750 to the Friends of Foxboro Conservation to complete fundraising for new planters.
FOXBOROUGH, Mass. – A grant of nearly $5,000 from the Partners in Patriotism Fund has helped the Friends of Foxboro Conservation reach its fundraising goal to beautify the Common by upgrading the town’s Flower Bucket program next spring.
“This grant was the final piece to a project we have been working on for some time with a number of folks in the community,” said Friends of Foxboro Conservation Trustee Heather Harding. “We are so thankful for the generosity of the Partners in Patriotism Fund and for helping make our wish become a reality. This grant will help us beautify the Common in the spring with fabulous new planters and plants for everyone visiting or passing by the Common.”
The funds will be used to replace 13 whiskey barrels that are stationed throughout the Common with new, self-watering planters to match the planters that surround the new flag pole. The new planters will be placed around the exterior of the Common fence to be more visible to passersby.
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The Flower Bucket program was started many years ago by Town Historian Jack Authelet and carried on by Harding. Through the program, residents can sign up to adopt a flower bucket. They plant it, water it and care for it.
“It is a pretty simple concept which works very well,” Harding said. “Residents can plant whatever plants they choose … their own creation.”
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Harding added that 10 new planters will also be purchased through the Friends of Conservation’s fundraising efforts, which will increase the Flower Bucket program from 13 to 23 planters. This project, according to Harding, was inspired by the town’s ongoing efforts to revitalize the downtown area surrounding the Common.
“We thought this might be a nice way to facilitate those efforts by adding some color and beauty to that area of town,” Harding said. “Additionally, the new planters help to conserve water and are more environmentally-friendly than the old ones. We hope that seeing the new buckets will encourage people to spend more time uptown.”
