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Gloria Harper
From:MLOOPESKO@roadrunner.com
Sent:Sunday, March 29, 2020 9:57 AM
To:Gloria Harper
Subject:External Email : FW: Closing the gardens increases risks.
Sent: Saturday March 28 2020 1:56:41PM
Subject: Closing the gardens increases risks.
The closure of the garden has the opposite effect it is intending. It puts me at higher risk and exposure to covid19. I’ve
never seen more thank 6 people at the garden at one time, separated by well over 6 feet and mostly many yards. This is
much less exposure than the grocery store. I am an at risk person, over 60 with chronic bronchitis. I’ve suffered 2 bouts
of pneumonia and had a pleural effusion with 70 percent of my left lung collapsed. I am safer at the garden than at the
grocery.
I’m retired, on a fixed income and raising 2 teenage boys. I made an investment in many plants and rent a garden space
to save money. I’m now going to not only lose that investment but will also need to spend additional money to feed 2
growing boys. In addition, I need to go to the grocery store more often, where I am exposed to many more people than
I am ever exposed to at the garden.
I have many perennial fruit plants and had already planted:
peas, green beans, cucumbers, tomatoes, cantaloupe, luffa and carrots this year.
I have 4 perennial blueberry bushes
2 perennial raspberry bushes
perennial flame grape Vines
6 perennial strawberry plants
Rosemary
Sage
Please help me and my sons by reopening the garden.
Thanks.
Debra Behnken
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