Makeshift watering for historic district flowers

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Every day - the flowers need watering every day.  Or they quickly start suffering and no amount of watering later will bring them back.  As you may have learned in the news today, the watering golf cart was stolen again.  And this time we don’t think it will be found.  The thieves ripped the water tank off and threw it in the brush on their escape.  Watering was missed on Friday - but this morning we have a makeshift arrangement. 

Here Victor of the Fairhaven Lions Club waters while Constantine Papadakis of Dirty Dan Harris Steakhouse has volunteered his pickup and his time to get the watering done.  There are 48 flower baskets throughout the historic district and it will take these two till late morning to water them all.  The arrangement for years has been the Old Fairhaven Association contributes a few thousand dollars each year to the Lions Club for their charities - and the Club members, who are mostly retired, volunteer their time to water the flowers early every morning all summer with the efficient golf cart.  The electric golf cart was fitted out so one person could drive and water without strain.  You can see the water tank in the bed of Constantine’s pickup. 

The Association is working to replace the golf cart asap - hopefully by later next week.  We would appreciate if anyone with an open pickup could volunteer to drive one of the Lions Club volunteers on any of the coming mornings.  Sunday through at least Wednesday.  7:00 am until about 10 am.  If you can, call John Servais at 920-8223, or email .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address).  If you can do one day, that would help spread the work.  Thanks. 

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