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Fockele earns national award for peace garden
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Mark Fockele walks along a path through the Wilheit-Keys Peace Garden at the Northeast Georgia Medical Center North Tower. His company earned a national environmental award from the Professional Landcare Network for its work on the garden. - photo by Tom Reed | The Times
A Gainesville company has again earned national honors for its green thumb.The Fockele Garden Co.’s design and installation of the Wilheit-Keys Peace Garden at the Northeast Georgia Medical Center has earned a Grand Award at the 2012 Environmental Improvement Awards Program sponsored by the Professional Landcare Network.The Grand Award is PLANET’s top designation, with the Wilheit-Keys Peace Garden one of only 39 projects to receive it nationally. Fockele Garden was the only Georgia company to earn the distinction.Anne’s Garden, also at the medical center and designed, installed and maintained by Fockele, earned a Grand Award from PLANET in 2011. Gainesville philanthropists Philip and Mary Hart Wilheit funded the garden in honor of their late parents, Tom and Jane Eve Wilheit and Jack and Mildred Keys.