Johnny Appleseed
The West Side Community Collaborative is joining forces with several groups on the East & West Side to plant a few dozen new ornamental trees around their new community gardens. This Thursday (or maybe Friday, Saturday, or Sunday - you never know with these community organization types) we will be planting 36 new ornamental, fruit, and shade trees across 8 different WSCC sites.
These new trees will compliment the new community gardens and playgrounds planted all across the WSCC area this last Spring and Summer.
There is also a curb side replanting of Rhode Island scheduled for later this Fall. The West Side Community Collaborative and it's partners re-treed Connecticut Street two years ago, Massachusetts last year, will tree Rhode Island this year, and plans on treeing Vermont next year. They have also planted a few dozen trees on all the side streets in between. This is in addition to the $20,000 worth of community gardens they installed this year.
As we remove crime & blight, the WSCC uses beautification projects such as this to encourage existing area renters to purchase houses on the West Side as well as attracting new home owners from outside the neighborhood.
The groups working together on this initiative on both the East and West Side are:
- Buffalo Weed & Seed - Jim Pavel from City Hall - Andy Rabb (who is no longer the City Forrester but helped to write the grant) - The Central Terminal Restoration Corporation - We Care Block Club - West Side Community Collaborative - and several others
The handsome guy on the heavy equipment is Yuri Hreshchyshyn from the Broadway Market and the Central Terminal digging tree holes with a back hoe on loan from the Central Terminal Restoration Corporation. This garden is located in front of a recent mural in the lot at Brayton & West Utica where the Urban Roots Garden Center has been conducting their plant swaps.
We are all very proud of all the success we are seeing on the West Side - we are even more impressed by all the great works happening all across Buffalo.
Thanks to everyone who is working to make Buffalo a better place.
Harvey
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Mike Miller
Thanks for the mention, Harvey!
Yuri is probably the most community minded, tireless worker we have in Buffalo, besides being a great guy! He is responsible for making sure that the terminal's 17 acres are the most safe and presentable greenspace they can be. And if you saw the grounds before the last few years, I think you'd see that his accomplishment is nothing short of amazing! The terminal and grounds have gone from being an eyesore and a trash dump to now being a tourist's destination point. We literally have had visitors from around the world. I've given tours to people from England, Germany and Luxembourg. Over 50,000 national and international visitors in all since reopening to the public in 2003. We could not have done that without his help. Restoring safety and access to the grounds was instrumental in our reopening.
Yuri is currently working on a $10,000 grant to obtain about 60 new trees to be planted on the terminal grounds this fall. He is also responsible for working with the Buffalo Federation of Women's Clubs who designed and currently maintain the Memorial Drive traffic circle. It was done as a monument to breast cancer awareness.
Thank you, Yuri, for all the many hours of hard work you put in to make Buffalo a better place!
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