Restoring Hometown Pride in Leonidas, Michigan

Reader Contribution by Lois Hoffman
Published on August 31, 2019
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Three years ago, Marylou MacDonald of Leonidas, Michigan, had a vision. She wanted her small town to look nice and to be a place that all the residents could take pride in. Her idea was to put hanging flower baskets throughout town. Not just a few flowers, but lots of them and big hanging baskets that folks would stop and take notice.

“The catch here is that, like anything else, it would take money,” relates town supervisor Bernard Shaw. “So, they brought it before the board and the project was approved.”

Marylou’s husband, Barry said, “For this small town, that was a huge step considering that the most recent count put our population at only 659.”

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