Local landscaper donates services to city; Keating offers to maintain 6 sites.

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Byline: Nick Kotsopoulos

WORCESTER - Amid all the recent talk at City Hall about budget cutbacks and property tax increases, a local businessman has stepped forward and has once again offered his company's services to the city at no cost.

Keating Enterprises Inc., a landscaping company based in Quinsigamond Village, is donating its services, materials and equipment to maintain six city-owned properties: the Lincoln Square War Memorial, Korean War Memorial, Keating Square (corner of Foster Street and Green Street), the traffic island opposite the Worcester Police Department, the Blackstone River Bikeway and the fountain area at the Federal Plaza Park next to the Harold D. Donahue Federal Courthouse.

City Manager Michael V. O'Brien said the services that will be provided by KEI include lawn mowing, fertilizing, replanting and snow removal. He said the estimated cost of those services is about $100,000.

The manager added that KEI's longstanding service to the community illustrates how individual citizens and businesses can play an active role to keep Worcester both clean and aesthetically pleasing for residents and visitors.

"In these difficult fiscal times, donations such as Mr. Keating's can yield significant cost savings for our...

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