Santa Barbara County would receive $16.6 million in direct federal funding to be used on community projects to benefit local residents if the spending bill passes in the U.S. Senate.
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The Santa Maria Public Library is giving out free Spring Gardening Kits from April 12 - 17.
This is the fourth time the library’s Adult Services Department is offering the kits, an initiative started in 2020 during the pandemic.
Each one comes with six small pots, soil, plant markers, and seed packets. The kit also includes a live succulent cutting and a bookmark.
Gillian Speicher is a librarian at the Santa Maria Public Library. She says offering this service is one of the library s many efforts to bring locals together during the pandemic.
“We were closed for such a long time but we still wanted to connect with our patrons and still keep them involved in the library,” Speicher said. “So we started to come up with craft kits, the gardening kits, just to engage our community.”