MARQUETTE — At 10 a.m. today, the Marquette Beautification and Restoration Committee was to plant one small section of Petunia Pandemonium at the former Lake Superior Community Partnership building next to the Father Marquette Park.

Due to road construction on South Front Street this summer, the committee will not be planting in that area nor at the roundabout.

This will be the first time in 33 years that Petunia Pandemonium will not grace the south gateway into Marquette. The committee will plant a small portion of the total project. However, at the north end of the nearly mile-long stretch, they usually beautify for five months each summer. Members will also be sprucing up the park at the same time.

Due to the construction, the $100,000 irrigation system installed and maintained by the committee is being removed. The committee has begun a fundraising campaign to replace it so flowers can come back next year.