Sullivan Renaissance

Bundling Great Improvement Energy

By TRACY DENMAN

	Contributed photo Long Eddy sisters, Nora, Mollie and Rachel Pickens were a big help at the Basket Historical Society. (Click for larger image)

One more week has passed us by folks, and now there’s only one week left in the Sullivan Renaissance beautification competition! If you haven’t been prettying up your community you better get moving!

Don Downs is keeping the Long Eddy town effort really busy, landscaping and fixing things up. Thanks to some of the local youth (pictured above) the Basket Historical Society got a garden fixed up and a Sullivan Renaissance sign to match. But that’s not all. The society also has a new bluestone paved entrance court, which has been provided so that the handicapped visitors have easier access and a smoother ride to the museum. A historical marker that had to be moved due to the work on an addition for the firehouse was also relocated to the Society and has become a feature of the new entrance area. Energy has also been harnessed towards the Long Eddy Hose Company, as well as more bluestone paving, benches, landscaping and the relocation of the Veterans of Foreign Wars flagpole and monument to the area. It only takes folks a little bit of effort to make a lot of difference.

Teams of judges will be visiting each of the 30 project sites on August 4. Some last minute spruce up ideas include washing windows, litterplucking, weedwacking, moving, sweeping sidewalks, weeding, watering and general sprucing and tidying. First and second place winners will be announced at an August 5 picnic celebration at the Day in the Garden site.