Lawrenceville Resident Shares Appreciation Of Special Section and Efforts in Village
To the Editor:
I was delighted to read the special section in last weeks’ issue [January 15, pages 16 and 17] entitled Lawrence Township News. I moved to Lawrenceville 20 years ago and it was a great decision.
I loved the stories about nationally recognized Joanne Canady-Brown and her wildly popular Ginger Peach Bakery, the energetic Lawrence Education Foundation (raising tons of money for our schools), and Cherry Grove Farm with its barns and animals and its award-winning cheese-making operations, classes, and workshops.
I also deeply appreciated the story featuring Lawrenceville Main Street (LMS), our decades-old downtown organization. They produce two major arts festivals each year, and weekly concerts in the park throughout the summer, both attended by hundreds. The story also noted our many fine restaurants and shops, including some hot new arrivals.
I’d like to mention one more story — it’s about the LMS’ Landscape Committee. This small group of women put in hundreds of hours of physical labor every year to make our downtown look lovely and inviting. Their hanging baskets all along Main Street — and other planters around town — are filled with gorgeous flowers from May to October, and overflow with evergreens during the winter months. They are watered all summer long by hand almost daily. The evergreen branches are cut by hand from entire trees donated by local nurseries — an arduous task. Extra volunteers from the community help out, and also participate in fall downtown cleanup days.
It takes a village!