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in
1992 prior to the Bexley Community
Foundation the Bexley beautification
fund was established to invest private
dollars in aera
Flora later Bexley city council voted to
transfer that fund's assets under its
control at that time to the Bexley
Community Foundation
accordingly trees for Bexley was created
and Bexley and Bloom was set up to
enhance the visual impact of our
community and today from a Gateway at
College in Livingston to entry features
at Cassidy in delmare from flower
baskets on Broad Street and Clifton
Avenue Bridges to improvements at Drexel
Circle and plantings at the encaps of
several boulevards virtually every
corner of Bexley greets its citizens and
visitors in a unique and distinctive way
beyond that having invested more than
$1.5 million since
1999 Bexley now boast one street tree
for every
resident with your help these efforts
will keep working to preserve this
important aspect of the Bexley
experience last may we gathered here at
Jeffrey Mansion to introduce bexley's
younger residents to the Bexley
Community Foundation we had a
spectacular evening and and 150 people
attended and we had a lot of fund that
we hope to continue annually that night
we also introduced the new Youth and
Recreation fund of the Bexley Community
Foundation following up on this Spring's
event we've now exceeded our
expectations on fundraising by
50% we're anxious to engage in the uh
Grant making and so we are Fielding
requests for Grants which include
programming for guest for uh a film
club possibly for other sporting events
which aren't currently supported by the
Bexley recreation department and uh we
are open to any other requests from the
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community as a lifelong resident of
Bexley I'm so pleased to be a part of
the Bexley Community Foundation and we
have established a fund which Denise is
going to tell you about our fund is a
tree fund and we are hoping to start our
first project this fall with the
planting of 24 trees in memory of 24
classmates of berries who are now
deceased um we feel that by planting
trees we will help the community
aesthetically and make it a point of
Pride which it already is for us we are
longtime residents of Bexley our
daughters granddaughters grandson all
attend Bexley schools and Barry's mother
lives on Brentwood she's 94 years old uh
we love this community we love living
here and this is our opportunity to give
back