The kids were finishing their lunch of pizza when the park visitor invited herself into the Botanical Center’s main room. She wanted to lecture the 11 young people who had spent the morning moving mulch from the back of a dump truck to the many beds of the Botanical Gardens’ Winter Garden. Sweaty, heavy work. …
Volunteer Spotlight
Volunteer Spotlight: Malissa Nowack
by William Aldrich, Friends of the Garden Volunteer Liaison It takes three sets of hands to lift the capstone and get it positioned more than four feet off the ground and on top of a column of cinder blocks fronted with Carthage Stone. Malissa Nowack supervises the positioning onto a bed of mortar, then wiggles …
