Lincolnville Community Garden July Update
July 7, 2009
Cash McVay reported to Historic City News that fundraising for the Lincolnville Community Garden (LCG) has been a tremendous success.
McVay said, “We still have a little ways to go, but are very close to reaching our objective. Support from St. Augustine¹s business community has been phenomenal and inspiring.”
You can view a list of the garden’s sponsors or become a garden sponsor yourself by visiting www.citysprout.org.
The LCG construction team has formed! The team includes local contractors, Dennis Kellogg, Harold Lock with Red Bear Construction, Chad Smith with Newcastle Homes and Les Thomas architect.
The perimeter fence will be going up this week, followed by the open air classroom around the end of July and then the tool shed and raised garden boxes in August.
CitySprout will be posting updates and photos to the “progress blog” on their website as each component is installed. Each blog post will detail how the community and sponsors are working together to make it happen.
Once the garden structures listed above are completed, the garden will be open to the community to seed the garden and give it life.
“All who are anxiously waiting to get their hands in the dirt, please continue to be patient as the contractors complete the infrastructure”, asked McVay.
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I am very concerned to see that Red Bear Construction (Harold Lock) is involved with City Sprouts Lincolnville project. I realize the comments I am about to make are business related to a different project, but the non-profit needs to be very careful in dealing with him when it concerns money (even reimbursement for supplies).
We hired Red Bear (Harold Lock) to complete the construction of our new home (February 2008). During the course of construction, we discovered that he co-mingled our funds into his general account and paid other bills with our money, submitted false invoices to our bank to get inflated draws on our loan, converted funds for his own use which we specifically designated for certain materials, and, after having dragged the project out for an additional six months, he left us at the end of the project (June 2009) with unpaid subcontractors and unfinished work. We have brought a lawsuit against him.