February 9, 2006
News Release

Contact: Paula Kirpalani
Phone: 942-7461
Email: paula@leucadia101.com

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Adopted Plants Find Homes in Leucadia's Hwy 101 Medians

LEUCADIA‹In July of 2005, Leucadia 101 Main Street Association began working with the city of Encinitas's Public Works with a plan to beautify some of the Hwy 101 corridor sooner than the planned Streetscape. From these talks, the “Adopt a Median Project” was put into motion. Leucadia 101 headed a fundraising effort and asked the community to make a donation of $5.00 per each plant and “adopt” plants for the medians. The City agreed to install the irrigation needed for the medians as well as do the planting and future landscape maintenance.

If all goes on schedule, during the week of February 27th, all of these combined efforts will begin to “bloom”. With close to $7,000 in donated funds from the community, there are 1,551 adopted plants that will soon call Hwy 101 in Leucadia their home. By the first week in March, the six medians selected, the three north and south of Leucadia Blvd, will no longer be empty or weed-filled. Thanks to the talent of William Morrison, a landscape architect and a Leucadia 101 Main Street Board Director, there will be attractive and draught tolerant plants in these medians. The plant selection will reflect the plant palette that is planned to surround the “Welcome to Leucadia” sign on Hwy 101 at the north end of Leucadia to be installed in mid-March 2006.

The Leucadia Hwy 101 Main Street Association is a non-profit organization that formed in 2003 and is dedicated to the historic preservation and revitalization of Leucadia's North Highway 101 Corridor. For more information, visit the Leucadia 101 Main Street website at www.leucadia101.com.