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The “Welcome to Washington” display along Interstate 5 in Vancouver became an indirect pandemic casualty last summer, and the Evergreen State-shaped flower bed is going to have to wait another year before it can return to its former glory.
The flower bed is normally replanted each spring by volunteers from Washington State University Extension’s Master Gardener program, but the initial COVID-19 lockdown prevented the event from happening during the May 2020 planting window.
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