By Dian Ver Valen
The Times
The Pride and Joy of Dayton
Main Street flower baskets are a long-time dream come true
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Organizers are perfecting the art of maintaining downtown flower baskets. Waterers use a modified wand to pump water into a pipe at the top of the plants.
DAYTON – You probably didn't know that the colorful, hanging baskets of flowers that brighten Dayton's Main Street all summer were nearly 30 years in the making.
Dayton Development Task Force members Scott Hudson and Betty Lou Crothers have dreamt of, discussed and planned for flower baskets downtown since the late 1980s, when the founding members of the task force worked to restored this city's Main Street.
"It's an idea that floated around for a long time," Hudson said. "But the idea never really went anywhere. We never had the dollars to put it together."
Then the state instituted a B&...
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