Anyone seen a green golf cart?  Not on a golf course.

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The converted golf cart used for watering the 80 hanging flower baskets each day - has been stolen.  It was driven from its secluded location behind a building sometime Monday night.  As it has an electric motor, it could be driven away quietly.  The Old Fairhaven Association (OFA) members spent Tuesday checking for any possible person who may have been servicing it or using it - and no one has. OFA officers have now reported it to the police. 

If anyone has knowledge of where the cart is, please call Village Books and tell anyone answering the phone the location.  We will go get it and ask no questions.  Phone 360 671-2626.  Please.  It is a 4 wheel green golf cart with a white plastic canopy and a windshield.  There was a big water tank on the back, but it may have been taken off. 

The cart was purchased used in 2006 for $6,200 and outfitted with a water tank and watering hose.  The senior members of the Fairhaven Lions Club volunteer to water the baskets every morning - and the OFA makes a yearly contribution to the Lions charitable fund.  This has worked for perhaps 20 years. 

The OFA is scrambling to see the flowers are watered.  Even skipping two days watering can result in the flowers slowly wilting and not recovering all summer.  The baskets hang from the light poles on all the streets in the historic district and add their beauty to the ambience of Fairhaven.  We are in danger of losing some or many of the flowers. 

This is not the stolen golf cart, but the one we used previously.  But it shows Gene Saggs of the Fairhaven Lions watering the flower baskets a few years ago.  You can see the special long watering system that allows reaching up to the baskets.  The flower baskets are watered every morning all summer long to keep them looking full and beautiful. 

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