A Note From our Board Chair and Executive Director
Spring is here and we are enjoying watching the early spring flowers start to bloom. Speaking of flowers, did you know our Bexley Beautification Fund raises money to support the hanging baskets and many other projects in Bexley through our Bexley in Bloom campaign? More information will hit mailboxes soon! Also, we hope you've added April 30th to your calendar, we are looking forward to being together!
Sheila Straub, Board Chair
Hallie Raskin, Executive Director
Save the Date for Our Annual Gathering!
Please Save the Date and plan to join us at our Annual Gathering!
Wednesday April 30th
Carriage Court at Jeffrey Mansion
6:00pm
Sponsorship opportunities are available and we thank those who have already committed!
Grant Update - Rooted in Bexley - An afternoon with Zoë Schlanger!
The Bexley Public Library welcomed science writer, Zoë Schlanger to discuss her newest book, The Light Eaters: How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth on March 5. The Light Eaters is a New York Times bestseller that has been dubbed a groundbreaking work of popular science that probes the hidden world of the plant kingdom. It is a deep immersion into the drama of green life and the complexity of this wild and awe-inspiring world that challenges our very understanding of agency, consciousness, and intelligence. Zoë also spoke at the Bexley Highschool Library to interested students.
Zoë is a staff writer at the Atlantic, where she covers climate change. The Light Eaters, is a New York Times bestselling book about the world of plant-behavior-and-intelligence research, published by HarperCollins. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, NPR, and The New York Review of Books, among other major outlets. She was the recipient of a 2017 National Association of Science Writers reporting award for coverage of air pollution in Detroit, and a finalist for the 2019 Livingston Award for a series on water politics at the Texas-Mexico border. She is often a guest speaker at journalism schools. She lives in New York.
Thank you to the Bexley Community Foundation for their generous financial support and to Rooted in Bexley, a dynamic collaboration among Bexley Bloomers, Bexley Community Gardens, Bexley Tree and Public Gardens Commission, and Heritage Gardens for presenting this program.
The Friends of the Bexley Library will be holding their Spring Book Sale April 3-6, and they are in need of volunteers to help with set up, tear down, and running the event. Please click the link below if you’re able to grab a shift or two to work at the sale — no experience required! As a fun bonus, you can choose a free book for every shift that you work!
Fund of the Month: Bexley Celebrations & Events Fund!
Fund the FUN in Bexley! The Bexley Celebrations and Events Fund supports the City in presenting annual community events including the 4th of July celebration, Main Event, Jazz in the Park, Easter Egg Hunt, Harvest Festival, Tree Lighting and Menorah Lighting, Halloween Bash and so much more!
