Hawthorne Flower Blooms Again!
On Tuesday, July 29th, over 60 volunteers came out to help repaint the flower on 5th Ave & 7th Street SE. The flower's colors matched the morning's weather: it started off grey and gloomy when the crew started at 10am, but by noon, both the sun and the flower's colors were bright as could be!
Three teams of SOS youth came out to help paint the street mural. Neighbors from Slatterly Park also came out to help brighten their street-and calm traffic at the intersection, some of them had helped last year when the mural was first painted. One young neighbor was quite excited about painting discovered he could make his paint brush stand up at a 90 degree angle (due to the high degree of grit in the street paint). When leaving the mural site he was telling any one who would listen, "I got to paint my street today!"
Slatterly Park Neighbor -and dedicated painter-Susan Waughtal designed the flower. Local muralist, Greg Wimmer calibrated the design for street sized proportions.
Bob Sixta, RNeighbors Board member, and Jim Lafflam, RNeighbors webmaster, snapped photos of the RColorful Corners event. The RColorful Corners committee members include: Jill Walters (Steps to a Healthier Rochester), Gary Shannon (City Traffic Engineer), Jeff Ellerbush, Melissa Morva (Project Hope & PACE), Keturah Hall (PACE), and Janet Szanjner (SOS Coordinator).
The mural would not have been possible without the help of our gracious community partners and sponsors for the RColorful Corners summer series in 2008. RColorful Corners strives to provide a splash of color to the city, one neighborhood at a time.
Check out pictures from the first painting of this mural that took place in summer of 2007.
