General News: Annual Tree Planting Expands Row of Shade
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| Councilman Mazzocca with Kate Goodspeed and Sally Faith Dorfman. |
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| Mary Beth Krafft Greene presenting an official arbor day proclamation to Garnden club president Margret Vatter and Kate Goodspeed. |
April 30, 2011
By Charlie B. Scirbona
Even with an overcast sky and chilly wind the Cornwall Garden Club and the Cornwall Conservation Advisory Committee celebrated Arbor Day Friday by showing off the three new trees planted in the maple allee along park drive.
The group of twelve people gathered around one of the new legacy maples as garden club member Sally Faith Dorfman-Sirta talked about the group’s annual tree planting.
“We have trees running from Legion Hall and we hope to get them as far down Park Drive as we can,” said Dorfman-Sirota. “We now have young and old trees mingling together, much like the people of this town do,” she said.
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Kate Goodspeed, the chair of the Conservation Advisory Committee was also at the event. Dorfman-Sirota said Goodspeed was instrumental in getting this year’s three trees, two of which were paid for by the Town of Cornwall.
“I went around this week and checked on all the trees we’ve planted in the past seven years, and they’re all doing really well,” said Goodspeed.
The group did their best to pass some time as they waited for Cornwall Deputy Supervisor Mary Beth Greene Krafft to arrive and read an Arbor Day proclamation. Dorfman-Sirota led the group in reciting the Joyce Kilmer poem Trees. Not long after, Greene Krafft arrived with the proclamation, however it was Town board member Al Mazzocca who summed up what the Arbor Day celebration was about.
“I can’t wait for the day when my great grand children can play under the shade of the trees that were planted here today.” He said
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