Just reminding everyone that this Saturday, May 19, 2012 is the Sullivan Renaissance's "Get Out and Garden Day" and we are hoping many of you can come over to Rock Hill and give a hand on this year's Category C project at the NEW LOCATION for the Rock Hill Farmers Market which will be opening in June!
Sullivan Renaissance Press Release:
Volunteers Needed to Help in Communities on May 19
FERNDALE – Volunteers from many communities throughout
Sullivan County will be “getting out and gardening” this Saturday, May 19. Residents are particularly needed to help at
work days in three communities – Woodridge, Wurtsboro and Swan Lake – but many
communities have work days planned.
Residents are also encouraged to tend to their own gardens on this day.
“Some
people don’t realize that most of the public gardens we enjoy throughout
Sullivan County are maintained by volunteers, many who have been tending these
flowers for over ten years,” said Sullivan Renaissance Director Glenn Pontier,
“Now some of these communities need new recruits to help. The benefits of volunteering include meeting
your neighbors and that real sense of contributing to an endeavor that makes
the community more attractive.”
Sullivan Renaissance is
helping to organize community work days from 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 noon in the
following locations:
- Woodridge: Meet at the gazebo in the Veterans’ Park at the corner of Green Avenue and Tabacynski Road
- Wurtsboro: Meet at the Mamakating Library on Sullivan Street
- Swan Lake: Meet at the cemetery on White Lake Turnpike (behind the firehouse)
While
no experience is necessary, volunteers should bring their own gloves and tools
if they have them. The first ten
volunteers to arrive in each community will receive free tickets to Thunder
102’s “Thunderbash” concert at the Monticello Casino & Raceway that
evening.
Other Saturday gardening
events include: Rock Hill Renaissance WorkDay from 9:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m., volunteers meet in the Trading Postparking lot in Rock Hill; and the Sullivan
West Edible Garden Build Day from 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. at the Elementary
School in Jeffersonville.
Sullivan
Renaissance is also planning additional community work days in the coming
weeks. Volunteers are needed to help in
Roscoe, Livingston Manor, and Jeffersonville on Saturday, June 2. A community work day will be held in
Woodbourne on Saturday, June 16. Volunteers
who help out at these work days will be entered into a drawing for tickets to
see the New York Philharmonic Orchestra and fireworks show on July 7 at Bethel
Woods.
Most
of the communities are part of Sullivan Renaissance’s Maintenance Grant Program.
Sullivan Renaissance is a
beautification and community development program principally funded by the
Gerry Foundation. Sponsors include Bold
Gold Media Group/Thunder 102, FisherMears Associates, Robert Green Dealerships,
Sullivan County Democrat, The River Reporter, Thompson Sanitation and
WSUL/WVOS. For information call Sullivan
Renaissance at 845-295-2445 or visit www.sullivanrenaissance.org.
