From the Oct. 4 edition of the Register-News
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Let’s keep charm
of city growing
To the editor:
What do visitors to Bordentown City say about the town?
Many comment on how pretty it is. Besides the interesting, well-kept buildings with their private gardens, they admire the many beautiful public gardens found throughout the community.
The present condition of these public gardens is due in part to the efforts of the Bordentown City Garden and Beautification Group, known locally as the Garden Club.
This garden club was formed about two years ago by a small group of interested residents dedicated to improving the image of Bordentown City by helping to maintain the existing gardens and planting new ones.
Formed initially to support work begun by local gardener Nick Leeming, the garden club has completed both planting and cleanup projects.
The garden club’s first major undertaking was sprucing up the municipal parking lot. Since then, members have proceeded to do numerous other tasks such as work at the Honor Roll and John Bull Monument.
Most recently, a beautiful decorative urn was added to the newly created Bonaparte Garden in Hilltop Park.
What keeps a group like this going and growing is support.
Two kinds of support are particularly needed:
1. Financial support. Members donate their time and often their money to make the club’s projects possible.
But there is a limit to their resources. We need greater public financial support.
The organization is seeking additional funds to provide for upcoming projects. For example, this year members would like to be able to purchase some additional holiday decorations for Farnsworth Avenue.
2. Time. The group is always looking for new members to share in the various efforts during the year.
Meetings are held the third Wednesday of each month at the Carslake Community Center at 7 p.m. Even if you cannot attend the meetings but would like to help out, consider joining. You will meet a fantastic group of people of various ages and interests.
For more information about the Garden Club, stop by our table during the Cranberry Fest on Oct. 6 and 7, or call Esther Collom at 298-5268.
Let’s keep our city’s charm growing!
Esther Collom, Chairperson
Bordentown City Garden
and Beautification Group
Please thank your
husband for us
Editor’s Note: The following is a response to Lisa Ghaul’s letter in the Sept. 20 edition of the Register-News. Due to technical difficulties, this letter was unable to be printed in last week’s edition.
To the editor:
Please let me start my letter to (Ms. Ghaul) by telling (her) that my husband, the farmer, and I his wife, as you referred to us in your letter, are extremely and always have been extremely grateful to your husband for his help while volunteering with the fire company.
We would have expressed our gratitude personally if we were given any information on how to get in touch with him (although we relentlessly tried from the moment he was hurt). Being the wife of a farmer, I know how frustrating it is to feel that your husband is not appreciated for his hard work, as you felt for your husband.
Let me try to reassure you that your husband was a great concern of ours from the moment the accident happened. I was there offering my medical help and, like you, I am also a medical professional.
Before he called you, you wouldn’t have known that I was the one who offered help for him but was told by a fellow fireman that he was an EMT and could handle the situation.
That didn’t deter me from standing in the sun to create a shadow over your husband to try to make him comfortable after placing support under his right shoulder and left knee to try to ease the pain for him, along with all the other countless things that were done in a sincere effort by everyone to help.
Like you, I feel I must come to the defense of my husband by explaining to you why there was no error on my husband’s part in starting a dry burn on a windy day as you stated.
Before my husband proceeded to work in the field, he called the Department of Forestry to let them know he was going to use his burning permit to clean a field.
They gave him the OK as the weather was clear, sunny and not windy at the time and suggested he call central and let them know of his intentions.
It wasn’t until after he called central and alerted them did he proceed back to work on such a beautiful Sunday afternoon.
I hope this letter can be of comfort to you, even if in some small way, to know that there are people who greatly appreciate your husband’s heroic efforts, especially while our country is in such a time of turmoil as we are now.
Please thank your husband for us, the farmers.
The Howard Family
Mansfield Township

