Quality Forward : Improving Quality of Life for Asheville and Buncombe County, North Carolina

PLANTING, BUILDING, COMMUNITY & BEAUTIFICATION PROJECTS

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QF Board member Paul Dismukes and Landscaper Eric Edwards worked with Outward Bound volunteers to plant six magnolias donated by Carolina Tree form at the Grey Eagle on Clingman in December.	QF Board Member Willie Mae Brown talking to Unity Church Camp volunteers after cleanup of Lexington Street.	QF's Allison McGehee planting at Arbor Day in front of St. Lawrence
Weaverville volunteer tree planting crew Saturday October 27. We planted 7 holly and cedar trees at the park just off Main Street.
Tom Barkei of CinTom's Custard helped with the Great Asheville-Buncombe Cleanup along Sweeten Creek Road along with his fellow Rotary Club members	Arbor Day at Emma Elementary School - October Glory maples donated by Progress Energy from Jesse Israel's Garden Center were planted by all the kindergarten classes on April 23	Dorothy Dorf's family planting a Memorial Tree in her memory at E.W. Grove Park on Charlotte Street on October 28.
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Asheville City Holiday Parade 2006
QF Board Member Andrea Wright and kids	Priestly Cummings, QF Board Chair Laura McCue and Leslie Fay	Quality Forward's Clean & Green Contingent

MAIN STREET NATURE PARK in WEAVERVILLE Fall Work Day - November 11


Mayor Bett Stroud and Randy Burroughs, L.A. give volunteers coasters made from thick bittersweet vines as souvenirs on 11/11/06.	Randy Burroughs, L.A., and Western Carolina Students, Erica Bowman and Mia Stanley, plant steep bank just east of Main Street in Weaverville
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Mayor Bett Stroud greets volunteers at the new Weaverville Main Street Park Invasive Plant removal workday on June 24.	Volunteers at the Weaverville Main Street Park Workday June 24.	Lin and David Brown with Lina Evans at registration for Father's Day Garden Tour in North Asheville on June 18.

QF Chair Scott Riviere and Charlie McCullough greet everyone at the Father's Day Garden Tour in North Asheville	Eric Schlosser of Life's a Garden Landscaping worked with Quality Forward to replace sycamores on Page, plant the intersection of College and Charlotte Streets and plant a memoria tree for Conley Britt at the Griffing Blvd. Rose Garden.	Asheville Downtown Association President Dwight Butner cleans the corner of Haywood and College at the Downtown Cleanup June 23.

Leslie Fay & Scott Riviere planting College St. traffic islands for Southern Living photographer.	Bernie Arghiere & Scott Riviere planting the new traffic islands on College Street	Neighbors planting their new traffic calming island in front of Hall Fletcher Elementary in West Asheville

Warren Wilson College Summer Program students painting the fence at Montford Park		Warren Wilson College Summer Program students planting trees at Montford Park
Board Member Amy Fahmy delivering trees to Montford Park
	Cub Scout Troop 138 of Abernethy Methodist Church planting at the corner of Montford Ave.and I-240 - plants donated by the Mountain Horticultural Research Center. Left: Stephanie Beard and daughter helping Cub Scout Troop


This barnraising is funded by a grant from the Community Foundation of WNC to Quality Forward for the Buncombe Community School East Garden Project lead by teacher Casey McKissick



The Seventh Day Adventist Youth Group planted trees along Broadway in Asheville on November 7.	Volunteers from the String Cheese Incident band and their friends pitched in on Thursday, October 21, to plant 5 trees and 50 yellow twig dogwoods in West Asheville.	Quality Forward's Litter Brigade in the Christmas parade November 20