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09/22/08 11:36:36 am, by Michael Happy
Categories: Dobel Street

Neighborhood tractor grant secured

I just got a telephone call at home from Jon Morgan, who heard from Edith Floyd earlier today.

The Presbyterian Committee on the Self-Development of People has approved the grant proposal for the purchase of the neighborhood tractor. Time to make a call on John Deere.

Edith is already going full-tilt to line up contracts for snow removal and mowing with the city, and for plowing neighborhood gardens with Greening of Detroit, and Mark Gracely, director of Mt. Olivet Cemetery, met with her this morning to help put together the list of what exactly she will buy with the initial grant disbursement.

It is exciting to see plans already beginning to fall into place now that Edith has the funding for the tractor. She didn't waste any time lining up the purchase and the business she hopes will follow.

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Edith said that the formal notification of the grant should be coming in the mail by the start of next month, and the first disbursement of the grant will follow as soon as she pulls together an itemized list of what she will use the initial money on (she and Mark Gracely already met this morning and are talking with the tractor company Mark deals with through the cemetery).

Edith is downtown today talking with the city about contracts for snow removal and mowing, and she is also planning on stopping in on the Greening of Detroit to talk about providing them with community garden plowing near the neighborhood.

And she sounds really excited, too. It's good to see our efforts yielding tangible results.

Considering a lot of us took our first driving lessons at Mt. Olivet, I wonder if Mark Gracely will let us take tractor driving lessons at the old graveyard?

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