Flowers for Friendship

Sunday, August 31, 2014

As Mayor Sue Murray signs a proclamation declaring Friendship Day in Greencastle, representatives of the sponsoring agencies for the Sept. 10 event look on at Eitel's Florist where owner Jenny Sullivan (seated, right) has arranged for 4,000 roses to be provided for the annual giveaway. Sponsors also include (standing, from left) Lora Zoll, Ivy Tech; Michelle Collins, Asbury Towers Retirement Community; Adam Becker, The Game Warehouse; Tammy Johnson, Greater Greencastle Chamber of Commerce executive director; Josh Richardson, First National Bank; Brooke Trissel, Mill Pond Health Campus; Sue Frazier, Bittles and Hurt/Hopkins-Rector funeral homes; and Rhonda Brotherton, Putnam Inn. Not pictured, Duke Energy representative. Roses will be given away in dozens with one stipulation -- those who receive them keep one for themselves and give the others to 11 other people, friends, neighbors, co-workers, family or even total strangers. While the roses are totally free, sponsors of Friendship Day ask that persons picking up roses drop off a canned food item to be donated to the Putnam County Emergency Food Pantry. Roses will be available at most of the sponsor locations starting at 8 a.m. Sept. 10. A complete pick-up location list will be released before Sept. 10.

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  • Our government, hard at work. Who were the sponsors? Hopefully we didn't spend any tax dollars on this... I would have much rather seen the money go towards belts in a "No Crack at Walmart" celebration.

    It'd be interesting to know how much food could be bought with the amount of money going towards roses.

    On the note of altruism, if we were to convert the Stellar Grant to food, we'd be able to feed everyone in Greencastle (at its current population) for about a decade. If we fed only those in poverty, the food stores would last for about a century.

    -- Posted by daisy48 on Mon, Sep 1, 2014, at 11:57 PM
    Response by Jared Jernagan:
    Our government has nothing to do with this. The Chamber of Commerce is not a government agency. The mayor was there to sign a proclamation.

    Additionally, the sponsors are all of the businesses and people listed in the article. The answer to your question lies in the part that says "Sponsors also include..." and then spends the next 50 or so words explaining who the sponsors are.

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