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Elizabeth Blevins, Director, Office of Communications
Office: (740) 351-3810; FAX: (740) 351-3179; Cell: (740) 464-4854
940 Second Street – Portsmouth, Ohio 45662
E-mail: eblevins@shawnee.edu 
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            The Portsmouth Pantry Garden at Doyle’s Landing is officially ready for planting with Portsmouth Municipal Court Judge Steven L. Mowery leading in the groundbreaking on Tuesday, May 11. Gardeners, along with Kelly Hatas and Sarah Lowe, service leaders with AmeriCorps/VISTA at Shawnee State University who received a grant from the Ohio Campus Compact for the Pantry Garden, joined Mowery to begin the planting.
            Mowery and Portsmouth Municipal Court Judge Russell D. Kegley have offered assistance and cooperation to appoint community service workers to assist with the maintenance of the garden.
            Several plots will be used by community gardeners and the remainder will be raised with vegetables that will be donated to God’s Pantry at Second Presbyterian Church and the Salvation Army. Portsmouth Feed and Supply and Lowe’s donated seeds for the project. Small tools such as rakes, hoes and spades are needed also.
            For more information, or to donate to the Portsmouth Pantry Garden, please contact Hatas at khatas@shawnee.edu or call (937) 623-2957 or (740) 351-3572.


The Portsmouth Pantry Garden is officially started with a groundbreaking on Tuesday, May 11. Portsmouth Municipal Court Judge Steven Mowery led in the groundbreaking. Mowery and Judge Russell Kegley will be providing community service workers for the garden. Kelly Hatas and Sarah Lowe, service leaders with AmeriCorps/VISTA at Shawnee State University received a grant from the Ohio Campus Compact for the Pantry Garden. In the photo is Sarah Bachman, SSU student gardener kneeling by the sign. From left, standing, are Mowery, Hatas (kneeling), Connie Rawlins, Calvin Rodeheffer, Lynn Rodeheffer, Lowe, Kejing Liu, master gardener and associate professor of Teacher Education at SSU, and kneeling, Melissa Lowder, Helen Entler, Community Garden coordinator, and Mason Bradbury, student gardener.