The founder of the Marigolds Project has announced student participation has been suspended for this year due to the COVID-19 outbreak.
Barry Ogden made the declaration in an email announcement Wednesday. The annual Marigolds Project saw students plant thousands of marigolds at different locations around the region, highlighted by a group planting effort in the median of Main Street North.
In 2019, more than 200,00 marigolds were planted at 67 locations by students from seventy area schools. It set a Guinness World Record in each of the last six years for the largest number of students planting flowers at one time. [ Sign up for our Health IQ newsletter for the latest coronavirus updates ] Earlier this year, Ogden said the project was on