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Clean water and shade for Mississauga: restoring Baobab Creek

A neighborhood-led restoration of Baobab Creek needs $1,850 for saplings and equipment.

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Gregory D. Davis
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Mississauga
Baobab Creek has been used as an informal dump for years. This March, 83 neighbors turned up for a first cleanup, filling 197 bags in a single morning. Now we want to restore it for good. We have a plan agreed with the municipal water board, including native species selected by a local botanist. The area floods more each year, and fish have returned for the first time in a decade after our first cleanup. Restoring it will protect homes and bring back shade. All the labor is volunteered. We just need materials. We'll post planting day photos and a count of every sapling planted. Where the $1,850 goes: • Native saplings and stakes: $780 • Tools and protective gear: $290 • Waste removal and skip hire: $630 • Signage and educational materials: $150 I never thought I'd be the one asking, and I'm grateful for every bit of support. - Gregory
#environment#tree-planting#cleanup

Updates from Gregory

  1. Quick update: $673 raised so far (36%). the plan for tools and protective gear is now scheduled. Receipts coming as soon as I have them.

  2. Quick update: $513 raised so far (28%). we've started the first stage. Receipts coming as soon as I have them.

  3. 19% there. the plan for waste removal and skip hire is now scheduled. Thank you.

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  • Urvashi N. Gokhale

    Thinking of you and your family, Gregory. Hope this works out for you. We're a small family in San Jose but we're thinking of you. God bless.

    • Chidi Uche Akinwale

      Praying for you, Gregory. It takes guts to ask. Well done. Put this on a community board in Mardan this morning. God bless.

      • Zola K. Pienaar

        Stay strong, Gregory. Great idea, hope you get there. All the best

        • Goro Masaru Nakamura

          sending good thoughts, Gregory. Hope this works out for you. Blessings.

          • Bella H. Thornton

            more neighborhoods should do this. Thinking of Mississauga.

            • Dinesh F. Sandhu

              Rooting for you, Gregory. Reading this made my day a bit heavier but I'm glad I did. My father had a similar thing happen so this one hit home. Greetings from Salé.

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