Cleaning up La Conner

Sunday the Rotary Club of La Conner did a community service project weeding and cleaning up weeds, blackberry vines and ivy along the Benton Street Stairs.

I would like to give a huge shout out to “Touch Up Landscape” owner Thomas Kahn, who happens to be my son, and his amazing partner Kaylie Brown, along with neighbors of the stairs, Bob Raymond and Dorothy Downs, all of whom are not members of Rotary but dedicated members of the La Conner community willing to go the extra mile and help keep La Conner beautiful during this devastating pandemic.

With masks on, they joined Rotary members Ollie Iversen, Marty Pease and me and spent several hours on the project.

Thomas and Kaylie saved the day with power tools and landscaping skills making the project complete in short order. Ahh youth!

In the next several weeks Rotary will be spending time weeding the roundabout and planting tulip bulbs from Roozengaarde, provided at a generous price, to help the Town of La Conner welcome in next spring. Hopefully Rotary will be back too, selling fresh cut tulips to raise money for La Conner High School scholarships.

Rotary is committed to numerous projects within the community. We are always looking for new members to join our vibrant and engaged club to support La Conner and it’s youth. We are also interested in hearing from the community if you have a community service idea for us.

COVID-19 is an obstacle, not a barrier, to community service. We can do much if we continue to respect this pandemic by practicing masking, social distancing and hand washing.

Cleaning up the Benton Street stairs was hard work but a pleasure knowing Rotary was making a contribution to the La Conner community.

If you are interested in becoming a member of La Conner Rotary or have a service project you would like us to consider, please send me an email: [email protected]

Sincerely,

Patsy Good,

Community Service Director

Rotary Club of La Conner

(photo page 4 - ed.)