New City Elementary Celebrates Clarkstown Garden Club 50th Anniversary

Last spring the Clarkstown Garden Club donated a pear tree to New City Elementary. This fall, the students showed their appreciation by hosting a celebration of the club’s 50th anniversary. This event took place on the front law of the school, the students forming a semicircle around the young tree now adorned in its red fall foliage. CCSD administration and Board of Education members, in addition to members of the Clarkstown Garden Club, came to join New City Elementary staff and students in the celebration.

New City Elementary Principal Debra Forman opened the event thanking the club and relating the growth of this new tree to the growth of the school. “The more we care for our tree the better it will grow. The more we care for our friends, the more we all grow as a community.” County Executive Ed Day and Town Supervisor Alex Gromack shared thoughts about the importance of community and how the Clarkstown Garden Club has a history of giving and sharing throughout their fifty years. The celebration ended with Garden Club President Camille LiPuma being presented with a blue birdhouse carefully decorated by New City Elementary students.

Story and photos by Denise R. Farro, Public Information Specialist for CCSD.