Lowe’s grant helps beautify Albany ARC Adult Day Building grounds
Terry Lewis
ALBANY — Keep Albany Dougherty Beautiful (KADB) recently received a $10,000 grant from Lowe’s to beautify and increase accessibility at the Albany ARC Adult Day Building on Broad Avenue.
The grant money was used to build raised landscaped gardens around the facility and to construct flower and vegetable boxes at the building. Officials say the goal was to make the building more accessible for people with disabilities as well as beautifying the grounds.
“Most of the raised gardens you see are 12 inches off the ground, we’re taking our three feet off the ground,” KADB’s Judy Bowles said. “So if you’re in a wheelchair you can still go up to this raised planter and work in it.”
There are three large, wooden planter beds in the rear of the building. ARC’s Sonja West said one of the planters will be used for flowers while the other two will be used for seasonal vegetables.
“The idea here is to help the individuals we serve become as independent as possible and be able to enjoy doing the things that everybody else does — like working in the garden” West said. “All the individuals we serve will get to do what they enjoy most. Some like to dig in the dirt, others like to water. You can never tell when someone might bloom.”
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