[Vision2020] Re: Name of this list & re: Water

[J Ford]

Whatever happened to looking at "draught resistant" grasses or "irish 
mosses" that don't require that much water?  They use it CA and AZ all the 
time with a lot success.

J  :]




>From: Melynda Huskey <melynda at moscow.com>
>To: Bill London <london at moscow.com>
>CC: vision2020 at moscow.com
>Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Re: Name of this list & re: Water
>Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2006 23:30:13 -0700
>
>Bill London wrote:
>>And therefore, I see no need to water the lawn at the Moscow Cemetery.  I
>>have been to all the public cemeteries in Latah County.  Only a few are
>>irrigated.  I do not think the beauty or reverence of the cemeteries are
>>determined by irrigation.  I think this Council's special deal on cheap
>>water for the cemetery is foolish.  The cemetery district officials should
>>not have made that request.
>>
>I disagree with Bill and Ralph; while the dead may not know, and almost 
>certainly don't care, if the grass is green above them, I think it's a 
>civic duty to maintain cemeteries as green, pleasant, and peaceful spots, 
>with grass and tall, shady trees.
>
>The older part of Moscow's cemetery is a lovely place to walk and indulge 
>in Wordworthian intimations of immortality; there are some very fine 
>examples of funerary art in the older gravestones, too.  The newer part, 
>with its ugly flat plaques and spindly trees spaced far, far apart, is 
>infinitely less appealing.
>
>If I were ever to win the lottery (which I won't, because I won't play), 
>I'd endow the cemetery district with a million dollars on the condition 
>that they allow interesting headstones, tombs, and mausoleums again.
>
>The golf course I couldn't care less about, but let the former citizens of 
>Moscow have a verdant resting place.
>
>Melynda Huskey
>
>
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