It takes a neighborhood to fluff 68 garlands for holiday decorating.
It also takes a neighborhood to fund the $8,000 needed to replace the “old and tired” decorations that had wound around McKennan Park light poles and those on 21st Street’s distinctive boulevard.
But it took hardly any time at all for residents in the historic McKennan Park neighborhood to raise the funds and offer up their time for a garland-fluffing gathering before the lighted greenery went up late last month…