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Rain, rain, come and stay

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by Erin Spanier

posted 4/21/2012

In March, Susan Bryan cooked up thirty-four batches of play dough, dyed them blue and green, and packed them in old yogurt containers. No, she’s not a preschool teacher; she’s the county’s rain garden coordinator. She needed dough, along with some bendy straw “downspouts,” to help thirty would-be Master Rain Gardeners learn how to contour land to retain

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