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Downtown Willmar is looking a little more
beautiful these days. Downtown business owners and groups and the city of Willmar are cooperating and pooling their funds and efforts this summer to place hanging flower baskets, signs and banners on street lights and poles in and around downtown. The money to buy 16 hanging petunia flower baskets was provided by Main Street Willmar and downtown businesses. The flowers were purchased from and hung by Stacy’s Nursery on light pole brackets provided by the city. The Willmar Fire Department has agreed to water the flower baskets every day Monday through Friday. Red and yellow triangular banners were bought by Main Street Willmar and hung by the city. Also, the city placed “Historic Downtown Willmar’’ signs at downtown entrances. The signs were produced as a project by the Willmar Design Center. Edna Wolfswinkle, a downtown business owner and Willmar Design Center board member, said the first 16 flower baskets were placed at four downtown intersections. “That’s what we had money enough to start out with,’’ she said. “We’re very happy to get as much as we did, and hopefully we can get some more baskets hung. We have to work a little at a time because the city only has time put up so many brackets at a time. “But they promised that they would put them up for us, and if we can get a hold of more baskets, we’ll hang as many as we’ve got money for.’’ Wolfswinkle is pleased the fire department agreed to water the flowers. “I like the cooperation between the city and the Main Street,
the Design Center and the fire department,’’ she said. “We’re
all part of the business downtown, so all of us should participate
in working with beautifying downtown and being interested in developing
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