The Portsmouth Pantry recently held its groundbreaking with many community members present including Portsmouth Municipal Court Judge Steven Mowery. Mowery and Judge Russell Kegley will be providing community workers for the garden. One of the aspects of the garden is to help teach sustainability to those who have plots…

…”We have also received a grant from Ohio Campus Compact, for [Shawnee State University] to host two AmeriCorps*VISTA Summer Associates. We have recently hired them and their names are Mason Bradbury and Sarah Bachman,” Hatas said. “Their responsibility is to manage the gardens. They will be supervising court appointed volunteers. If they (court workers) have no experience with gardening they will teach them…”

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