10-year-old Jaxon Bell leads pollinator garden project
Jaxon Bell spreads mulch in a once overgrown flowerbed at Memorial Park on a sunny summer morning. The work was part of a project initiated and seen to fruition by Bell — made possible by generous donation from local area businesses and other community members.
Jaxon Bell sits proudly at the edge of his finished project — he gave special thanks for its completion to Kaden Ledgerwood with Ironside Enterprises, Derek Bell with Proverbs Landscape, Hilltop Greenhouse, community volunteers, and GoFundMe donors.
Local resident John Moran is pictured in the middle of Adrian Casteel and Jaxon Bell after donating plants for the Keep Oklahoma Beautiful project that Bell initiated.
Local volunteers — Laurel Casteel, Adrian Casteel, Sara Bacon, Aidan Bacon, Jaxon Bell, Andre Casteel, and Derek Bell — all worked hard to get plants in the ground for Bell’s Keep Oklahoma Beautiful project.
CUSHING — If you strolled through Cushing Memorial Park recently you may have noticed a significant change to one of the flower beds decorating the pathways — this transition is thanks to a 10-year-old named Jaxon Bell and a generous team of local volunteers and donating businesses.
Over previous months you may have caught a glimpse of Jaxon armed with gardening gloves and a shovel taking on a big …
