Becky Barritt, owner of Becky’s Creative Landscape & Design was recently elected by the Beautification Commissioners as Chair of the Beautification Commission. In January of this year she was appointed by Dirk Starbuck to the Commission. “I am blessed to have this opportunity to serve our city and God knows there’s much work to be done!” she said. Becky hopes to help beautify the city in many ways and is not afraid to get her fingernails dirty. “Manicures aren’t my style. It’s hard enough just to keep them clean and not bleeding.” Becky said. She can’t complain though because she loves to get involved in the labor of landscaping wether it be on her John Deere tractor, or in the ditches digging and planting or gluing together sprinkler valves and pipes. “I started this business with an old Ford Ranger, a shovel and a wheelbarrow.” She is speaking of when she started her first business back in Illinois in 1992. She has been self-employed ever since doing landscaping. “I have never been given a bank loan except for the purchase of a truck or tractor. I have never been given anything that I haven’t worked for. There is no toothfairy behind this, just pure hard, dirty, backbreaking work.” Recently Becky found out that she is not going to be able to continue doing the heavy lifing and labor she enjoys. “I have been suffering on and off again with a bulging disk and arthritis in my back.” But this doesn’t stop her; she works anyway while she’s in pain. “This is the price of working the way I have for so many years. It is my exercise and I love it!” Becky will continue to do labor and volunteer for many projects as this is what motivates her to do what she does. “I love to make things beautiful! It’s my life’s work.”
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