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Paula Savage, President and founder of the International Peace Garden Foundation, shares about Terry Anderson's involvement with the garden Saturday at the Holland Land Office Museum.Photo by Steve

Genesee County Manager Matt Landers and Deputy Highway Superintendent Paul Osborn discuss plans for a $4 million future renovation of the Engine House at 3 W. Main St., Batavia, if the county

Image Batavia native Barb Toal with her book, "Friends of the Batavia Peace Garden," at GO Art!, where she will have a book-signing from 6:30 to 8 p.m. Thursday.Photo by Joanne Beck People kept asking

BATAVIA — When you look at the mural painted near the Engine House at 3 W. Main St., you may see a natural disturbance.

In the 60s, every girl in high school would have been encouraged by her guidance counselor to be a nurse, teacher, secretary, or homemaker. Barbara, a girl born in 1948, did not like those choices in high school. She wanted to be a plumber like her dad. Her father, Dwight, began his plumbing business at their home on South Main two years before Barb was born. On her ninth