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Fairfield council lays groundwork for landscaping, lighting district budgets
FAIRFIELD — The Town Council this week gave preliminary approval for the 2022-23 engineer’s studies and declared its intention to levy assessment fees for 16 Landscaping and Lighting Maintenance districts. The votes have been unanimous other than for District No. 7 – Rolling Hills. Councilwoman Catherine Moy voted versus that resolution. The complete expenditures in the district had been outlined in the workers report as a minimal a lot more than $4.21 million. The assessments, if authorized subsequent a public hearing on July 19, will go over about $4 million. The council dedicated $173,760 in General Fund pounds to go over section of the variance, and curiosity of $37,236. “The…
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As landscape architects, two Oregon women laid the groundwork for many of the Northwest’s enduring gardens
The scenery has improved in the century since Elizabeth Lord and Edith Schryver founded the first landscape architecture firm owned and operated by women in the Pacific Northwest. Home gardeners who rely on the region’s expansive nursery offerings, landscape professionals who continue to find inspiration in Lord and Schryver’s timeless designs and even tourists who appreciate billboard-free highways have these women to thank. They were “progressive and concerned about the public aesthetic,” said Bobbie Dolp of Salem, who helped preserve Gaiety Hollow, Lord and Schryver’s former Salem home, garden and studio, which is open to the public. Another estate they enhanced, Deepwood, is now a Salem city park. In all,…
Beautiful Art Of Landscaping
