As part of Bartholomew County United Way’s Day of Caring activities on Friday, downtown Columbus will come alive with Bloomin’ Corners.

Julie McCawley is an organizer of the effort to transform the wedges of property between the sidewalks and street on the corners of downtown streets.

Volunteers will be out Friday planting perennial flowers and other plants in the corners to beautify the area.

The city public works department says that you can plant flowers and other vegetation on the street corners, even though they are in the public right of way. However, it must remain short enough it will not block the sight lines of drivers and it can’t obstruct any fire hydrants.

More than 800 volunteers will be doing volunteer work across the community on Friday. If you want to participate you can call the Volunteer Action Center to get an assignment at (812) 314-2706