More than 1,000 Take Part in 'Earth Day' Celebration
• Parks and Streams Cleansed; Hundreds Visit Nutley Gardens
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Earth Day scene this morning at the Nutley gardens of Silas Mountsier and Graeme Hardie. The gardens open to the public twice yearly and Saturday also celebrated a nation-wide event sponsored by the nation-wide HomeGarden Preservation Program.
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Silas Mountsier (right) and Graeme Hardi with Nutley's Carol LoCurcio who was among the nearly 1,000 who visited the Nutley gardens today.
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Winners of an Earth Day poster contest sponsored by the Parks Department and Nutley schools were honored at Saturday afternoon's picnic celebration. The adults seen here (l-r) are Mayor Mauro Tucci, Commissioner Dr. Joseph Scarpelli and Board of Education trustee Steve Rogers who also is a candidate in the May town commission election.
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Master gardener Michael Schop and Dr. Scarpelli with Nutley resident Tom Kean at today's "green Earth Day" Public Works Dept. program that offered free mulchspXXX to local gardeners.
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First Prize Poster in the Earth Day contest was drawn by Lauren Vazquez of Lincoln School.
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This winning poster for grades 2-4 was created by Mary Mankovich who was honored at the Earth Day celebration.
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The winning masterpiece for grades K-1 was created by Akshath Puli.
Apr 21, 2012 – Earth Day was celebrated by more than 1,000 persons in Nutley this year – nearly all of whom spent several hours cleaning up the town's parks, assisting neighbors with small beautification projects and removing debris from brooks and streams.
The celebration actually began on Friday when Roche employees spent part of their day cleaning and sprucing up Nichols Park including the brook that winds through that wooded area just south of Bloomfield Avenue.
Nearly 1,000 persons from Nutley and several nearby states visited the acres of sculptured gardens created over 50 years by Graeme Hardie and Silas Mountsier and opened to the public twice annually at a secluded site off of Rutgers Place. Visitors to the garden raised $42,000 that was donated to Nutley's charitable "Party in the Park" this past year.
Workers from Nutley's Public Works Department celebrated Earth Day this morning and early afternoon assisting residents with their own backyard gardens by providing compost, rich in nutrients. "This is all part of a " Green Nutley" initiative, Dr. Commissioner Joseph Scarpelli explained.
Meanwhile the largest celebration of Earth Day was taking place this morning all over Nutley by perhaps 1,000 volunteers of students and adults who cleaned all the other town parks and walked the length of the Third River removing debris. The baseball and other recreational fields were spruced up and the day ended around 1 p.m. with a celebration complete with burgers and hotdogs along with honoring winners of a student "Earth Day" poster contest.
The all-day celebration also included members of the Cub Scouts, Girl Scouts, NHS student clubs. Other participants and sponsors included the Nutley Chamber of Commerce, the Park Shop-Rite, the Nutley Elks Lodge 1290 and Applegate Farms.
