DUNNING — An effort to spruce up the garden at the Dunning branch of the Chicago Public Library is looking for donations of plants and garden supplies.
As part of a citywide spring cleanup event in April, volunteers created a new storytime garden outside the library, 7455 W. Cornelia Ave.
Donations of watering cans, bags of soil, plants, flowers, vegetable plants, large flower pots, gloves, spades and other gardening tools can be given to the Dever Elementary School Garden Club, which is overseeing the effort, through Friday.
The drive is sponsored by the library, the Dunning Neighborhood Organization and the community policing office of the Jefferson Park District.
A planting party take place at 10 a.m. Saturday at the library. Raffles are set to take place.
The garden, which also has benches, was vandalized on Halloween, and in November there were reports of teens selling and doing drugs in the garden while intimidating neighbors, officials said.
Efforts to starts an outdoor reading club as well as a coffee club that would maintain the garden are underway, organizers said.
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