Community garden builds

Left to right, Colfax community gardeners Ruth Bafus, Gail Webster, Tim Cornelius, Brian Cornelius, Shirley

Cornelius, Queenie Leinweber, Armeda Hayer and Gene Leinweber gather July 31.

The fourth summer of the Colfax community garden is well underway. The project has expanded each year, donating 785 pounds of produce to the Colfax Food Pantry in 2015.

Run by the Peace Lutheran Church, parishioners began the project after receiving a donation and taking ideas from the congregation on how to spend it.

“It’s been going well,” said Kent Miller, coordinator, whose wife Diane made the suggestion. “...