Dauphin deputy-mayor and chair of Communities in Bloom, Christian Laughland fills some containers with soil for a Dauphinite with a green thumb. Laughland and CIB members Kathy Bellemare and Theresa Deyholos braved the rainy, cool weather Saturday at the Dauphin Recreation Services grounds to offer up soil, woodchips and free trees and bedding plants during the annual Chip and Soil Day.