With a little help from its friends, the Creston Community Garden’s raised bed frames are being replaced.
Prince Charles Secondary School industrial arts students delivered new frames, made of two-by-twelve lumber donated by J.H. Huscroft Ltd. sawmill on Nov. 24.
Marlene Nash, gardener and volunteer, said on Tuesday that the committee that manages the gardens on 11th Avenue North met last spring and agreed that the original landscaping timbers that made up the frames when the garden was constructed were rotting.
“Jacquie Ryckman (a neighbour and volunteer) wrote to J.H. Huscroft Ltd. and asked if they would supply the lumber,” Nash said. “And they generously agreed to supply the material.”
Nash then called PCSS principal Scott Cobbe, who arranged for Shayne Ducharme’s shop students to construct the frames.
The frames are now on-site, waiting for spring, when volunteers will dismantle the old ones and put the new ones in place.
“Everyone worked together,” Nash said. “That’s just how this community is.”