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WORKING THE TULIP BULB LINE – Community volunteers and gardeners Kim Kusilek, Brenda Davis and Anne Hays, from left, were at Tulip Town Saturday planting tulip bulbs to make the Town’s roundabout colorful and beautiful next spring. Annie Skinnell is over Davis’ left shoulder. Town Administrator Scott Thomas is over Kusilek’ left shoulder. The bearded Tulip Town staffer is not identified. – Photo courtesy of Debbie Galbraith
Social media chatter about the look of the town’s roundabout led to a Saturday work shift at Tulip Town.
Writes Debbie Galbraith: To clarify the back story, the discussion about the condition of the roundabout was actually started on social media. When Town Manager Scott Thomas replied to the comments, stating that it takes resources to maintain everything in town, Shelter Bay resident Annie Skinnell responded that she would be happy to organize a work party to make the round-about “a point of pride for the town of La Conner.” As Annie said, “we all want our town to be beautiful. The roundabout is really the first thing one sees when they come into town. It should be pretty.”
Thomas had challenged the chatterers to put together a work team to plant bulbs. Thomas put himself on that team.
Annie got three fellow Shelter Bay residents to volunteer their time to plants over 200 bulbs (donated by Tulip Town). The bulbs were planted in peat pots which will be moved to the round-about at a later date. Besides Annie Skinnell, the other Shelter Bay volunteers were Kim Kusilek, Brenda Davis and Anne Hays.
Source: Debbie Galbraith
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