Garden | Encore Garden Is Blooming Again
BANGOR ” A garden blooms again in Bangor.
For years now, there has been a garden in front of the Isaac Farrar Mansion at the Bangor Y. The Encore Garden on Second Street was planted in memory of those who succumbed to breast cancer.
The problem was that the garden had become run-down in recent years.
“The garden had really fallen into disrepair,” said Suzanne Brunner, the director of Caring Connections. “That was really bothering me, because it seemed disrespectful to let that happen.”
Caring Connections, a joint program of the Y and Eastern Maine Medical Center in Bangor, makes sure that women who are uninsured or underinsured have access to mammograms and Pap tests and provides support services for women diagnosed with breast cancer and education on women’s health issues.
Brunner and a small group of volunteers attempted to spruce up the garden last fall, but they lacked the expertise to tackle such a project.
So Brunner found some experts ” in this case, volunteers from a University of Maine Extension Master Gardener class. As part of the class, students are required to perform 40 hours of community service for a number of projects seeking help.
Volunteers Leigh McCarthy, Jennifer McGovern, Linda Pinkham, Jan Placella and Torrie Tardiff decided to tackle the Encore garden.
McCarthy explained her decision to help out: “I was familiar with the Y. I recently retired as an attorney, and I had done some legal work for them. Also, the garden was in memory of those who died from breast cancer. So I was glad to be able to go and help with this garden.”
The revamping of the garden started in April, when little was
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