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Thank you, Queen Anne for enthusiastically embracing the Green Gateways Project. You certainly showed you can more than meet a challenge. We asked you to help us reach our fundraising goal of $16,000. You did better than that. You helped us raise $19,665.00!!!! Your overwhelming generosity has enabled PPQA to:

• purchase plants to complete the landscaping at the gateway intersections;

• continue to have Vertumni Fine Landscaping & Gardening water and maintain the beds until the drought tolerant plants are firmly established;

• create a walkway of personalized, beautifully inscribed paving stones in the south Galer planting bed;

• create attractive and welcoming spaces at the gateway entrances to our business district for the enjoyment of all for years to come.

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The Green Gateways Project has officially come to an end. The last of the paving stones will be on its way to Mammoth Stoneworks shortly. Once it is engraved, it will be installed at Galer and the walkway will be completed.

We want to thank Key Bank, our Platinum Sponsor, for their exceptionally generous contribution of $3000.00, and Rene Stern, the Machi Neckas Trust, and Metropolitan Market for joining us as Gold Sponsors. We are deeply appreciative of their strong support for our community. Please visit our Supporters page for a complete listing of all who made this project possible.

We will continue to accept donations of any amount for ongoing maintenance that will extend beyond the initial two seasons. Please click on the "You Can Help" for further information on how to make a contribution.

We offer our appreciation to Vertumni for their generosity in supporting our project and for keeping the landscaping so well tended.

Look What’s New On Queen Anne Avenue!!

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The paving stone walkway at Galer and Queen Anne Avenue N is admired by the Baker Family

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Judy Massong, Leona Wilkinson, and Carol Isaac at McGraw St and Queen Anne Avenue N. They, along with Loryn Paxton shown below, were among the volunteers who helped complete the curb bulb landscaping on May 1, 2010.

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May 1, 2010 marked the completion of the community supported landscaping at the Galer and McGraw gateways to the business district on Queen Anne Avenue N.

At workshops in 2005 with urban planning firm Zimmer, Gunsul, Frasca Partnership, the community envisioned safer sidewalks and intersection crossings. SDOT listened. In May/June, 2009, SDOT built the curb bulbs and PPQA did an initial planting on October 3rd.