Introduction to Bee City USA
Committee members from Bee City USA (Salem) invite the community to join them at 2 p.m. Sunday at pavilion 8 in Waterworth Memorial Park. Learn what it means to be recognized as a Bee City USA community and what the committee has planned for 2021. There will be a discussion on the importance of pollinators to our local community and the surrounding area, identify many of these pollinators, and talk about how community members can help. Pavilion 8 sits right next to the parking lot as you enter the park from Superior Ave. Call Shane Franks at 330-271-8913 for information.
SALEM City council moved to accept an estimated $2.2 million in funds from the American Rescue Plan Tuesday, but half the money isn’t expected to hit city
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SALEM City council moved to accept an estimated $2.2 million in funds from the American Rescue Plan Tuesday, but half the money isn’t expected to hit city coffers until next month.
The rest will come 12 month later.
As for how to spend it, that wasn’t discussed. City Auditor Betty Brothers said there are still a lot of questions on how the money can be used, with some very general guidelines in place now.
She said the money can be spent on negative impacts caused by the pandemic, aid to impacted industries, preventing cuts to government services, such as using it to make up a shortfall in the city income tax, or investing in improvements to water, sewer or broadband services.
Apr 30, 2021
Salem parks commissioner John Panezott, (from left) parks foreman Jim Grimm and Mayor John Berlin stand near a fantail willow tree planted at the Pollinator Garden in Waterworth Memorial Park. Arbor Day is being celebrated nationwide today. Panezott and Grimm are holding fir tree seedlings yet to be planted. Fir and a variety of other tree seedlings are being planted throughout the parks and at the city lake. Berlin holds a proclamation which recognizes Salem as a Tree City USA community for the 38th consecutive year. (Submitted photo)
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