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PCC Mother's Day Plant Sale Nets Nearly $12,000 for Landscape Technology Students
Photos and Story by James Hill
They came, they saw, they filled up their cars with beautiful hanging fuchsias, geraniums, herb and vegetable starts and much more.
But plant sale customers left something behind — $11,782, of which $6,000 will aid PCC’s landscape tech scholarship fund through the Portland Community College Foundation. The rest will go toward purchase of supplies and other costs associated with running the sale.
"The annual sale is very popular with the PCC community and a lot of people in the area," said Terry Lookabill who is the coordinator of the Rock Creek Campus greenhouse and barn. "The plants are reasonably priced and the money goes toward a good cause."
Proceeds from the plant sale this year are nearly $1,000 greater than last year’s sales, Lookabill reported. "It has been growing every year," he said.
For more than a decade, the PCC plant sale at Rock Creek Campus has been bringing in plant and flower lovers to show them a less expensive, but no less beautiful way of showing mom you care on Mother’s Day.
About James Hill
James G. Hill, an award-winning journalist and public relations writer, is the Director of Public Relations at Portland Community College. A graduate of Portland State University, James has worked as a section editor for the Newberg Graphic... more »