Flowers, Flowers, Flowers

At an otherwise routine City Hall meeting one morning, a not-so-confident decision was made to see if Hudson could enter the major leagues as to charm and beauty. After a flurry of activity by all manner of people and organizations, our town has been buzzing with speculation about whether Hudson might actually emerge as winner in the national America in Bloom Contest. You may have seen pictures in the paper showing Tom Vince and Arborist Tom Munn escorting a team of judges around town to view the many beautiful flower boxes in front of downtown and First and Main stores, as well as visiting other key town beautification areas.

Naturally, those flower boxes didn’t just magically appear one morning; they emerged from a combined effort of Hudson Rotary, Fairmount Properties, and our own Hudson Community Foundation.

Each one of these fine organizations committed $1,500 to the project, which needed lumber, topsoil, flowers, transportation and just plain hard work from many sources, including the Service Learning Class kids at Hudson High. Learned Owl’s Liz Murphy handled administrative matters, the City provided trucking, and The Garden Club planted flowers.

Probably at no other time in our community’s history have we had so many wonderful things going for us, and your HCF, in accordance with our mission statement, will continue to make grants for the improvement of quality of life here in Hudson.