By John Tredrea, Special Writer
LAMBERTVILLE — On Monday, city officials honored volunteers who have been doing landscaping work on a Veterans Memorial at City Hall.
Located at 18 York St., the city hall building was an Acme supermarket for many years. The city renovated the building after taking it over.
”Our city is fortunate that this group of people has been volunteering to do this work on their own time,” said Clerk Cindy Ege said.
Ms. Ege said an official proclamation lauding the volunteers was issued at Monday’s council meeting.
One of the volunteers, Dede Myers, said the group that has worked on the project includes students and staff from South Hunterdon Regional High School (SHRHS) and Lambertville Public School.
From South Hunterdon, volunteers were Spencer Giambalvo, Daniel Eldridge, Conor Coll, Zach Connors, Liam Sullivan, and Taylor Higgins.
”The supporting cast included Grace Giambalvo from Lambertville Public School, , her parents Cathie and Ed Giambalvo, my husband, Art Bernard, and my sister, Bobbie Newton,” Ms. Myers added.
”Cathie Giambalvo was critical to our success since she knew about the school’s community service program and connected me with Mr. De Simone, and then enlisted the students. Ed and Art added the extra muscle we needed to remove the roots of the butterfly bushes. My sister arrived just in time as the students were getting antsy and she corralled them to carry the tools back to our homes,” said Ms. Myers.
AND ON VETERANS DAY, “we had a new helper, Robert Rosenberger, of Dublin, Pennsylvania, a veteran of the Vietnam War and a new member of Lambertville’s American Legion,” said Ms. Myers.
” I thought Veterans Day was being celebrated on Monday since I had heard it was a federal holiday. So as I left the house on Sunday around 1 p.m. I was surprised to see the wreath in front of the memorial and even more surprised to see someone planting flowers.
”The new helper was Robert, an employee of Spring Valley Nurseries near Doylestown. He attended the ceremony and thought flowers needed to be planted. He convinced his employer to provide them. He then helped me plant the pansies that I had in the car. Fortunately, he recognized the perennials we had put in the triangle and didn’t remove them.”

