Community Corner

Celebrate the Earth This Weekend in Springfield

The Springfield Environmental Commission wants your help. In return: sunflower seeds.

Arbor Day is Friday, and the Springfield Environmental Commission is celebrating by hosting a variety of events celebrating the earth, with programming extending to Sunday, May, which, not coincidentally, is Worldwide Guerilla Gardening Day.

They are looking for volunteers, and offering free sunflower seeds.

Events kick off on Friday at 10:30 a.m. with a Tree Planting Ceremony in Patriots’ Park. Dreyer’s Nurseries of Cranford has graciously donated a native flowering Dogwood tree.

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With donations from various businesses and the General Greene Apartments, two other Dogwood trees were purchased by the DPW and will also be planted.

On Saturday at 10:30 a.m. at the there will be a Visual River Assessment Training Workshop run by Americorps Watershed Ambassador Angela Gorczyca from the Union County Department of Parks. Following the hour-long library session, attendees will walk to a nearby stream for field training. Testing of this stream and others in the future will provide useful information to the NJDEP Division of Watershed Management.

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Please register at the circulation desk, 973-376-4930 or contact library director Susan Permahos at supermahos@sfplnj.orgor the Watershed Ambassador at agorczyca@ucnj.org.

Looking to volunteer? On Sunday from 1 p.m. to 4:00 p.m., volunteers are needed to help clean the parks and waterways in Springfield. Please come and help. Volunteers are to register at the DPW garage on Mountain Avenue by the Motor Vehicle parking lot and receive their tools, maps and instructions. This is where and when you pick up your free Sunflower Seeds.

Also on Sunday the Garden Club will hold a Plant Sale on the front lawn of the Library from 9 a.m. 4 p.m.


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