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The Garden Club met Tuesday to plan the plantings in front of City Hall. They are a great group of energetic gardeners. It'll be fun to see what they do this year in front of City Hall. In addition to flowers, they will be planting the bushes along the front City Hall building. SCHOOL VACATION BOREDOM BUSTERS has been a great success. Every day this week trips are scheduled for the children of the community who are on Spring Break. Mary and Brad have been chaperoning the trips along with other recreation staff available. We are in the process of reviewing the application for summer playground leaders. Interviews will begin next week. There were many good applications received for two open positions. Ten leaders are returning from last year. CABLE TV Congratulations to Jerry Skelly who has a new little baby boy named Zachary, born last Thursday, March 31. Jerry is working shoots this week so will be working night hours completing the April "A View From the Mound". FORESTRY Rick met with the Garden Club Tuesday to offer his recommendations and expertise. I have given Rick a copy of the EQC information and he will be reviewing it. I have invited him to attend the April 28th Parks and Recreation Commission so that he can lend his expertise regarding greenways. Also, Rick confirmed that park plantings throughout the Mounds View park system have been chosen with consideration to diversity of species, disease resistance, soils, and birds attractiveness (among many other factors). Encouragement of wildlife by plantings has been avoided for the simple reason that in -city habitation is not safe for wild animals. In addition, wild animal habitation in cities can become a nuisance as well as destructive to trees and bushes. Parks often become destroyed by animal problems including deer which can destroy trees and bushes by eating them and rubbing the bark off trees, geese that leave increasing feces on greenspaces so that people cannot even walk on the grassy areas nor pathways, muscats that not only intimidate people (remember the problem a few years ago at Silver View Park with the over -abundance of muscats?) and burrow into grounds making unsafe walking areas due to sink holes, beavers that dam up the storm water ditches provided for storm water management and gophers that damage lawns and greenspaces. Luckily we have not had a huge problem in Mounds View. However, we do take measures to reduce the attraction to animals. For instance, we do not encourage feeding geese in the parks, they have plenty with the cut grass. Deer eating has not been a problem thank goodness. We have had a problem with an over abundance of