Overlooking The Valley

 

August 11, 2011

Gary Lowe, continued force behind the Green Giant sign on the hills above Dayton, in front of the jolly man's figure

DAYTON - The Green Giant has a hole, a giant hole.

It's squarely in the center of his tunic, which the jolly big guy dons with wreath and leafy boots on the steep hill overlooking the edge of Dayton like the town's own "Hollywood" sign.

Gary Lowe wants to fill the hole and if you're a strapping high schooler, he'll want your help late next month to complete the green tunic on the football field-sized figure, marking the last phase of a project that started almost two decades ago.

"We'll finally be done," said Lowe, an optician and former Green Giant cannery worker who initiated the constructio...



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