I love this time of year when the Snow Birds return from the their warm, sunny, winter homes. Frank and Dotty have a place in Sun City in Hilton Head, South Carolina, but they call their place on the Assawoman Bay and Walkers Pond, “Paradise”.
If you have walked around the pond in the summer you have seen Dotty on her hands and knees pulling weeds around the pond at Harbour Drive to keep it looking neat. You have seen both Frank and Dotty with their long grabbing sticks pulling trash out of the pond.
If you have noticed fewer bugs covering your screens, thank Dotty and Frank, they clean out and encourage the Purple Martins to live in those condo birdhouses in the park.
These tasks that are freely performed by Frank and Dotty are not cover in the pond maintenance contract the Montego Bay Civic Association has with Envirotech.
Keeping paradise beautiful has been a daily task for the hard working people, Friends of Walkers Pond, LTD. Over the years when you saw the fountains spouting water and lights shinning, that was because of Steve Borkowicz and Bob Lechner. They had worked with Jasper Johnson all those years and when he left they knew exactly how to keep them working. The work they have done cannot be measured in dollars and cents.
Envirotech won’t be here everyday, but we are. Now that we have a planted shoreline notice all the birds that were never here before. There are so many we haven’t been able to identify all of them. Thanks to Phyllis Mossmiller soon there will be more benches so you can watch them. She needs volunteers to help set them in place. You will be able to sit there without being eaten up by bugs because the birds and fish have eaten the larvae that were at the edge of the pond. How’s that for cooperation
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