Grant Allows South Side Garden to Keep Growing
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By Geri Parlin, La Crosse Tribune, Wis.  Feb. 22--Food for the table, good nutrition, a sense of neighborhood and a lesson in community spirit.   That's a lot to ask of a carrot.
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YOUNGSTERS are being invited to take part in a contest to grow their own pumpkins and sunflowers this summer.  The fun competition is being run by Durham County Council to introduce children to gardening and plant biology, as well as raising awareness of home composting.
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By William Presecky, Chicago Tribune  Dec. 11--Big Rock Township resident Marvel Davis knew in recent years that her 170-year-old family farm would be sold as open space eventually, free from the threat of development.
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By Kirk Moore, Asbury Park Press, N.J.  Feb. 4--An open-space fund that's supported by Ocean County property  taxpayers will lend Stafford nearly $2.4 million to fulfill its obligations  for preserving Pinelands forest.
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By Larry Rulison, Albany Times Union, N.Y.  Dec. 19--ALBANY -- The state's Public Authorities Control Board is expected to vote Wednesday on a $650 million grant for Advanced Micro Devices Inc. to build a $3.2 billion factory in Saratoga County.
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By Jamar Younger, The Arizona Daily Star, Tucson  Mar. 14--Dozens of volunteers joined residents of the Rincon Heights neighborhood to plant trees and implement water-harvesting techniques on Saturday.
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By Doug Dalena, The Stamford Advocate, Conn.  Dec. 18--STAMFORD -- The developer of a proposed South End redevelopment project is looking to the city for help in financing more than $160 million in public improvements.
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By Soule, Alexander  After coming up short in its bid for $15 million in federal grants a year ago, The Workplace Inc. last week received a $5 million commitment from the U.S. Department of Labor to create new work-force development programs in Fairfield County.
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By Natalie P. Mcneal, The Miami Herald  Dec. 17--The Helen B. Hoffman Plantation Library will get nine new computers this year, thanks to a $10,500 grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
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By Patty Machelor, The Arizona Daily Star, Tucson  Dec. 15--A plan to help preserve the Southeast Side's Fantasy Island trails area has received an award from a national group called American Trails.
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By Deborah S. Morris, Newsday, Melville, N.Y.  Feb. 8--In the end, the community came together to preserve its past with an eye toward the future.
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By Karen Nelson, The Sun Herald, Biloxi, Miss.  Feb. 9--BILOXI -- The Land Trust for the Mississippi Coastal Plain and the Sun Herald have formed a foundation with the mission of replacing thousands of South Mississippi trees lost to Hurricane Katrina.
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Low maintenance topiaries in a menagerie of shapes can satisfy that urge to plant.
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By Lisa Fleisher, The Sun News, Myrtle Beach, S.C.  Mar. 6--An alliance of coastal communities along the Grand Strand could band together to request around $120 million in federal funding to address the problem of stormwater runoff.
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By Margo Harakas, South Florida Sun-Sentinel  Feb. 3--South Floridians are in a green state -- of mind.
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By Denis CuffSTAFF  A conservation group announced a deal last week to buy a half- square-mile of spring-fed grasslands and oak forests north of Clayton, where county-approved growth limits scuttled plans to build housing.
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AT A TIME when children and young people in inner cities are increasingly finding the natural world an alien environment, a small south London charity is using horticulture to help troubled teenagers re-engage with society.