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Flossmoor resident and former Chronicle editor Tom Houlihan gives village $1,000 for pawpaws

by Bill Jones on October 10, 2021

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Jalen Coles-Foster, left, of Flossmoor Public Works, and Dave Becker, right, the village’s arborist, start planting some of the 17 pawpaw trees the village bought with a $1,000 donation from Tom Houlihan, center. (Photo provided)

For the first time, pawpaw trees can be found in public spaces around Flossmoor.

That is thanks to a $1,000 donation from Tom Houlihan to the village, which has purchased 17 of the native trees and is in the process…