Chelsea
Center for the Arts
“Beautification Day” Success
The
Chelsea Center for the Arts received new soil and had some plants rearranged
on Saturday, May 3.
Volunteers came with wheelbarrows, shovels, and rakes to lend a hand
to the beautification project.
“There were several areas where the foundation of the building had been
exposed due to soil erosion,” says executive director Aubrey Thornton Martinson. “The goal
of the project was to build soil levels
back up and create beds for future plantings,” she says of the
Saturday work day.
The CCA's landscape committee was integral to the process and includes
Janet Alford, Rick DeTroyer,
and Trinh Pifer with assistancLandscapee from Meg Gower.
Volunteers for the day included: Janet Alford, Trinh Pifer, Rick DeTroyer,
Amanda Becker, Mack Rufkin,
Noah Rufkin, Jim Alford, JD Alford, Deb Hubbard, Dan Pifer, Leah Pifer,
Maya Pifer, Sue Beale,
Rob Riemenschneider, Ron Ruth, Tom Knox.
Trinh Pifer of the Garden
Mill provided pansies for the flower pots outside the
door of the CCA.
“We made good use of existing plants, but hope to add more as plants
become available.”
Martinson added that the CCA is looking for donations of healthy shade-tolerant
plants such as hostas,
annuals, bulbs, sunflowers, or sweet woodruff. There are also a few spots
where trees could be added
such as weeping dogwood, Japanese maple, carpinus, carnelian cherry or
service berry. Call CCA if you
can make a donation.
The landscape plan devised by landscape architect Meg Gower is composed
of curvy beds which snake around
the building and includes a special bed to be planted and cared for by
the Scottish Highland Dancing class at CCA.
Martinson would like to thank E-Z Landscape Supply and the Garden Mill
for their support of this project.
On a previous workday, Chris Martinson and Robin Wagner installed new
door closers on the front door of
the CCA for a smoother entrance into the building.
The CCA shares its building with the Chelsea Children's Cooperative Preschool
and the Purple Rose
Theatre Company's rehearsal space.
Anyone who would like to volunteer for future CCA Beautification Days
should contact Martinson at
(734) 433-2787 or aubrey@chelseacenterforthearts.org.
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