Budding neighborliness

By Doug Struck

Staff writer

Dale Lind has been growing and giving away flowers for decades.

Lind, who will be 88 Friday, moved to Marion six years ago from Concordia. He festooned his neighbors’ mailboxes last month on a cul-de-sac off Eisenhower Dr., with planted petunias, marigolds, zinnias, and geraniums “just to give the neighborhood some color, and to have people think good thoughts.”

Before he left Concordia, he had a large garden and gave away flowers to shut-ins and others. Now he grows his plants from seeds on a shelf at his home at 129 Eisenhower Dr.

“I think it’s wonderful. It brightens the whole neighborhood,” said Sandy Harper, at 119 Eisenhower Dr.