East Dallas Times

By Bruce Felps

Elizabeth Dry, executive director of Promise of Peace Community Garden, wants to get her hands on $25,000.

So do I, but unlike me, Dry has a tangible plan, and supporters of the garden can help.

Nature’s Path, which makes organic breakfast fare, recently launched a kind of contest in which two community gardens will win $25,000 each. Here’s all the particulars of the contest, if that is, in fact, the right word.

Dry and the PoP garden have done their part in submitting ideas for how the money could benefit the garden and the community, as have other organizations.

Now it’s up to supporter to vote online for their respective gardens. Voting closes May 31, which is Monday.

The contest format is a little confusing. Supporters can vote either here or here. I’m not real sure.

Also, a word of caution: The contest outline and voting Web pages reside on Facebook. When I went to the initial page to check out the details I had to sign in to Facebook — OK, sure — then Nature’s Path wanted me to give them access to my personal profile information and all my Facebook friends. Um, not a chance.

But you can go here to vote for Dry’s suggestion and it looks like all it’ll cost is your e-mail address, name, and an online registration with Just Means, which is, I don’t know, the outfit running this contest maybe.