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.
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.
Though
some might not know it, the Pond Eddy Bridge is a destination, the
drive there, walking across the bridge taking you back to far simpler
times. The PA. DOT seems to have just three options they are willing to
consider right now, and none of the three are acceptable. Their first,
and probably preferred option is to just tear the bridge down and
replace it...the fact that said bridge is on the Federal Registry of
Historic Landmarks makes that option a tricky one. 
Their
second option would be to buy the people on the Pennsylvania side of
the bridge out, relocate them...to where? With all due respect, if you
walk across the bridge, make a right and walk down till you come to the
old tracks, you would realize you cannot put a price on the beauty,
solitude and serenity those people have right outside their front or
back doors. How would you propose to make someone whole if you took
their property through imminent domain? Yes, they are pretty isolated,
but guessing they want it that way, enjoy the sound of the river passing
by, enjoy the silent beauty of a walk down the tracks, perhaps picking
berries along the way.
The
third option would be to give the bridge to someone willing to MOVE IT
so that they can build another new ugly bridge in its place, and in the
process destroy the quiet solitude and beauty that is that special
place...and for what? Why would a bridge of four lanes need to be
built? Why would a bridge capable of supporting heavy trucks need to be
built where a romantic one lane bridge has more than sufficed for
decades upon decades?...perhaps to open the land up for development, or
worse, fracking? What about what the people on the two sides of the
bridge want?
Pond Eddy, the bridge are more than the sum of their parts, and the magic that is the place should be saved.
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.
Last week was a busy week for many of the wonderful folks involved in this year's Rock Hill Category C project. The facelift of the former Visitors Center is almost complete, and the building looks incredible. A big round of applause too all those who have worked on this makeover.
