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size=4><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 13.5pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Bookman Old Style'">PLEASE
SUPPORT WATER HOOK-UPS FOR COMMUNITY
GARDENS.</SPAN></FONT></B></STRONG></SPAN></SPAN>
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size=4><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 13.5pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Bookman Old Style'">City
Council hearing is on WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 10, 1pm, City
Hall</SPAN></FONT></B></STRONG></SPAN></SPAN></P>
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face="Bookman Old Style" color=blue size=4><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 13.5pt; COLOR: blue; FONT-FAMILY: 'Bookman Old Style'">Plants
need water.</SPAN></FONT></SPAN></SPAN></P>
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style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK4"><FONT face="Bookman Old Style" color=blue
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style="FONT-SIZE: 13.5pt; COLOR: blue; FONT-FAMILY: 'Bookman Old Style'">Across
the City, volunteers turn vacant lots from blighting influences into flowering
gardens. On the 600 block of Homestead Street, for example, in the 14th
District's Better Waverly neighborhood, Miriam Avins has spearheaded a community
co-op garden of vegetable growing and
sharing.</SPAN></FONT></SPAN></SPAN></P>
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style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK4"><FONT face="Bookman Old Style" color=blue
size=4><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 13.5pt; COLOR: blue; FONT-FAMILY: 'Bookman Old Style'">To
provide the water needed, however, we need the City to agree to a plan whereby
community gardeners will pay a basic fee to reinstate a vacant property's water
service, free of sewage costs and based on a seasonal rate only, paid in
advance. That's what the hearing is about.</SPAN></FONT></SPAN></SPAN></P>
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style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK4"><FONT face="Bookman Old Style" color=blue
size=4><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 13.5pt; COLOR: blue; FONT-FAMILY: 'Bookman Old Style'">To
register your support, please contact Council President Sheila Dixon and
Councilman Ed Reisinger, chair of the Land Use Committee that will hear this
resolution on August 10.</SPAN></FONT></SPAN></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 13.5pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Bookman Old Style'">sdixon@baltimorecitycouncil.com</SPAN></FONT></SPAN></SPAN><SPAN
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style="FONT-SIZE: 13.5pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Bookman Old Style'">ereisinger@baltimorecitycouncil.com</SPAN></FONT></SPAN></SPAN><SPAN
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