West End Improvement Group

The post today is courtesy of the West End Improvement Group. I shared all these to the Vintage Johnstown Facebook page over the weekend. So I thought I'd also share them to the website itself. Rose Howarth from WEIG took all the great shots showing just how far some of these projects have come. She says "Laurel Avenue Community Garden

We have 9 large, raised beds with lots of vegetables for the community and for the Co op Store in Prospect. Growing in the boxes: tomatoes, green peppers, hot peppers, parsley, cabbage, eggplant, zucchini and broccoli. We also planted 17 fruit trees this year: pear, plum and cherry. They are surround 3 sides of the garden. The post and steel rope fence that you might see in some of these photos has now been removed. We will be installing a new post and rail fence along the Laurel Avenue side of the garden. We will also be planting some landscaping greenery on the hillside on the D Street side of the garden, hopefully late summer or fall. We've come a long way, huh?

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This wonderful sight is the first thing you see coming into Johnstown from Route 56 (Haws Pike). I'll let Rose continue "Haw Pike Welcome Garden - just outside of the city line by the log cabin. This use to be a garbage dump for the city decades ago, then it was a junk yard. After that, it was one big lot of knot weed. The West End Improvement Group has planted Pennsylvania native trees, shrubs and plants. There are several mounds, each one getting taller and taller, represents the rolling hills of Pennsylvania."

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This is the old doctors office on Fairfield that WEIG planted all the wonderful flowers along with the D Street Garden as work continues there. I have to personally say - what a great community asset the West End Improvement Group has become as they continue their work in making the place we call home - just a little bit better day by day.

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