Our Rain Garden Team consists of Maureen Lorenz (Columbus Rec and Parks), Vinnie Tremante (Williams Creek Consulting), Tom Russell (Columbus DOSD), and Terry Dull (Columbus DOT). They continue to meet to work out the rain garden design and implementation plan. The garden will be on High St., north of Overbrook.

Cash and In-kind donations and pledges have come from:
Donors and Support to Date (not prioritized)

ComFest: $1425
Columbus Recreation and Parks: $1000 in plants
Greg Schneider: $50
FLOW: $100 and volunteers to help plant
CURB recycling: $200
Columbus Monthly: summer article on Rain Gardens will feature Vinnie Tremante and information about Adena Brook rain garden
FOR Ravinia: spring/summer issue features Vinnie Tremante article on Rain Gardens
McCain Fundraiser: August concert (more details later)

Some neighbors asked about Phlox and Phlox-like plants.
Native Wild Blue Phlox blooms April-June. Garden Phlox blooms July – September.
The key identifier: NATIVE PHLOX HAS 5 PETALS, the invasive phlox has 4 petals. There is a phlox-like purple flower blooming in the ravine, which may be Dame’s Rocket. Here’s a link to tell them apart.

May’s Clean Up Result: 20 Volunteers; 46 Bags of Litter; Numerous Mounds of Garlic Mustard; 40 Collective Hours Worked. The focus was cleaning the brook and garlic mustard. As far as I know, these 20 neighbors volunteered. Since we keep track of our work, please let me know if I missed putting your name on the list:

A young couple with a child in a stroller, Georgia and Steve Blum Herminghausen, Kenn Cahill, Greg Cunningham (mowed the Cooke Road exit lot–big thanks), Diana Jurotvac, Ann Laubach, Peg Matthews (alone, cleaned the brook from Indianola to Yaronia–6 large bags of trash!), Lauren Peimbert, Kip and Carol Patterson, Nan and Bill Platt, Bob and Judy Robinson, Lynne and Chuck Stamey, Pam Terral, and Susan Michael Barrett.