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Project gets two houses
By Colleen Surridge csurridge@parsonssun.com The Southeast Kansas Audubon Society's Parsons Purple Martin Rehabilitation Project has received a grant that will give the project two 14-compartment purple martin houses. The grant is from the Purple Martin Conservation Association (PMCA)/Songbird Essentials Buy One Get One (BOGO) program. The 14-compartment houses are built to the standards the rehab project has in place to upgrade the houses in...
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Arbor Day
By Colleen Surridge csurridge@parsonssun.com Third-grade students listened as Patrick McReynolds told them the story behind the American elm sapling that volunteers were preparing to plant at the Parsons Arboretum during the annual Arbor Day celebration Thursday. A native tree of Kansas, the American elm is nothing exotic to look at, but the sapling sticking up from the clay pot represents survival and hope. McReynolds told the children of ho...
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