
Bee City USA’s application process helped them to develop a foundation–a standing committee, signage, website, plant list, annual proclamation and celebration–but the most important thing they did was to make the people of Talent more PC–pollinator conscious, that is. Now they have a pollinator garden at the elementary school, they’re talking about a pollinator garden corridor throughout the town, and just yesterday, they pulled together a wide array of people and organizations to rescue a feral beehive wrapped around power lines 20 feet in the air. Public Works staff even built a special box with an observation window to place the colony in, branch and all. It was a TV news event and applause erupted when the bees and their rescuer were safe and sound on the ground. Yay bees! Yay Talent!