Several members of Leadership Hopkinsville Alumni spruced up the Downtown Farmers Market landscaping Saturday morning at Founders Square.
The group pulled weeds, planted flowers and mulched the area along East Ninth and Main street. Then the Hopkinsville Fire Department sent a truck over to water the plant beds.
The Founders Square plant beds are the alumni group’s Adopt-A-Spot. The area has seating, and it’s the site of the Kentucky Historical Marker to Hopkinsville native Ted Poston, the Dean of Black Journalists in America.
The Hopkinsville Beautification Commission oversees Adopt-A-Spot, a program that recruits civic groups to maintain a public area like the Founders Square plant beds.
Spots are available to adopt at several locations in town; anyone interested may contact Heather Braun, the Beautification Commission coordinator at 270-498-1555.
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Jennifer P. Brown is co-founder, publisher and editor of Hoptown Chronicle. You can reach her at editor@hoptownchronicle.org. She spent 30 years as a reporter and editor at the Kentucky New Era. She is a co-chair of the national advisory board to the Institute for Rural Journalism and Community Issues, governing board president for the Kentucky Historical Society, and co-founder of the Kentucky Open Government Coalition.
