Poppy project tells knitters: 'Your town needs you!'

A voluntary group is calling on more people to join their drive to commemorate the First World War with thousands of knitted poppies.

Crewe and Nantwich Senior Forum has made 450 so far — but needs 2,500 in time for Remembrance Sunday in November.

The Poppy Explosion Project will decorate trees in Crewe's Memorial Square to make the annual commemoration even more special this year.

The project, part of Cheshire East Council's Cheshire East Reflects programme, has received funding for wool, needles and other equipment from Crewe Town Council and the Freemasons' Cheshire Provincial Mark Benevolent Fund.

Forum chairman Adrian Lindop said: "We have set out to produce a vivid and wonderful town centre display made by the people of Crewe that will not onlyever hits the market ..."

The sellers got an inspection of the home, including the sewer line, to head off any issues. They replaced an old electrical panel and were getting an underground oil tank properly decommissioned.

Finally, although home inventory has been increasing in recent months, it's still historically low. Seattle had just 1.26 months' worth of homes for sale in May, based on that month's sales pace, according to the Northwest Multiple Listing Service. That's up from 1.18 months of inventory a year earlier, but well below the four to six months considered the balance point between buyers and sellers. The area that takes in Green Lake (and everywhere else in Seattle north of the Ship Canal and west of Interstate 5) was even tighter, with 0.81 months