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Local girl scouts built a garden next to the parking lot of the Lansing Center Trail.  I come around that corner frequently, and it catches my eye each time.  That parking lot has been improved considerably, and the garden makes it that much nicer.

It's a little thing, but it is kind of great the way folks in town do these little things to make the place just a little better.  Things like the gardens at the library, or the kiosk in front of the log cabin, or the kayak racks at Myers Point.  The Myers Park Playground project is probably the biggest of these -- so many people in the community contributed time and money and tools and labor to that.

We are at a crossroads where the town may change in significant ways.  As I have been attending this meeting or that I've lost count of the number of potential living units -- new houses, condos, apartments, cottages -- that could spring up over the next half decade.  While this is alarming to some, others are working hard to contain this growth in ways that will preserve what is important to townspeople.

The girl scouts' garden happens to be in a place where I catch site of it even when Im not looking for it.  No matter how foul a mood I am in, seeing these things brings a smile to my face.  At a time when these big things are happening in town, it's these little things that make the place more livable.  If those girls are wondering whether their garden made Lansing better, I am here to tell them it most certainly did.

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