Brigg Blog recently posted an extensive story about the Purple4Polio international initiative which involves raising funds to rid the world of polio - a dreaded disease now only found in Pakistan, Afghanistan and Kenya.
Our original story came at the request of Chris Darlington (pictured), chairman of the Brigg Rotary Foundation Team, to whom we chatted during the Town Mayor's coffee morning in the Angel Suite.
That was the venue for Monday night's monthly meeting of the Town Council, where elected members considered a request for assistance.
The crocus corms cost £1 for 10 - and Brigg Rotary wants to plant 20,000 during late October and early November. The flowers will bloom in February, die back before the spring mowing season but reappear the following year.
Chris says: "We would like to have large clumps at the entrances to Brigg as well as on the verges through the town, such as Bridge Street, etc."
The club has been talking to Lidl and Tesco to permit crocus planting areas near their stores.
If you were wondering about the choice of purple, it is because when a child is immunised against polio, his/her finger is dipped in purple die to signfify that they have been innoculated.
The crocus corms cost £1 for 10 - and Brigg Rotary wants to plant 20,000 during late October and early November. The flowers will bloom in February, die back before the spring mowing season but reappear the following year.
Chris says: "We would like to have large clumps at the entrances to Brigg as well as on the verges through the town, such as Bridge Street, etc."
The club has been talking to Lidl and Tesco to permit crocus planting areas near their stores.
If you were wondering about the choice of purple, it is because when a child is immunised against polio, his/her finger is dipped in purple die to signfify that they have been innoculated.
Purple has/is associated with royalty, the church, Romania magistrates, the VC - purple ribbon, the USA's Purple Heart, Jimmy Hendrix's Purple Haze, Purple Bricks - the Web's house selling agent, UKIP (yoke!)...and don't 4 get we already have symbolic purple in Brigg with Sass Markham & Zoe Hall's Pancreatic Cancer Action group.
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