Marigolds ready for planting (Photo Credit: Kevin Worrell)
The 22nd annual Marigolds Project is underway with the official planting ceremony being held on Main Street in Saint John Thursday morning.
Hundreds of school kids were bused in and some walked from their north end schools led down the sidewalk by Piper Paul Thom.
Barry Ogden is the man who started it all and says marigolds are being planted all over.
“We are doing five marigold plantings a day in Greater Saint John and throughout the region,” stated Ogden.
He also told the crowd for the 6th year in a row they had broken their own Guinness World Record and have grown from 35 to 70 schools today.
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- Piper Paul Thom Leads Centennial School kids to marigolds (Photo Credit:Kevin Worrell)
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- Rebecca Crosby plants first marigolds. (Photo Credit:Kevin Worrell)
Ogden also says other areas are now copying Saint John.
“We have been replicated in New York, Vancouver and a place in Europe, that quarter million visitors we get each year from the cruise ships, they love the story of what you guys do by making your city better,” Ogden told the eager to plant kids.
The first marigolds were planted by Rebecca Crosby, then hundreds of school kids joined in for the fun at the mass planting.
