{"id":10221,"date":"2021-10-15T17:49:07","date_gmt":"2021-10-15T21:49:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/?p=10221"},"modified":"2021-12-10T10:21:52","modified_gmt":"2021-12-10T15:21:52","slug":"a-27-year-old-gift-thrives-at-vbcps-transportation-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/a-27-year-old-gift-thrives-at-vbcps-transportation-office\/","title":{"rendered":"A 27-year old gift thrives at VBCPS transportation office"},"content":{"rendered":"

–by Sondra Woodward<\/em><\/p>\n

When Cris Sprouse stepped off his final bus run in 1994 and became a dispatcher for VBCPS Transportation Services, a colleague handed him a pot with a two-inch high cactus that sported a big cowboy hat. It was for his new desk.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey told me I didn\u2019t need to water it a whole lot,\u201d remembers Sprouse, now a transportation area supervisor. \u201cSo I didn\u2019t. And then it wasn\u2019t so green anymore.\u201d<\/p>\n

So the Euphorbia trigona<\/em> (or African milk tree) was bestowed on another colleague, who promised to bring it back to life.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd he did,\u201d says Sprouse.<\/p>\n

Boy, did he.<\/p>\n

\"""\"<\/a>
Cris Sprouse, dwarfed by a cactus that once was a tiny plant on his desk.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Years later, the cactus has a home in dispatch, where it and all the other lovely plants are tended to by dispatcher Donna Robinson.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

The plant\u2019s name is \u201cWoody,\u201d and it still wears the original hat. It\u2019s just a little harder to find now.<\/p>\n

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