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Kids on the go to grow a garden
telainen, one of the organizers of RPS Beau- tification. Kortelainen noted that one of the teach- ers at the elementary school had first sug- gested planting some flowers and small shade trees around the school building and in the playground area. Parents have been lobbying the Upper Canada District School Board (UCDSB) for the beautification pro- posal and have now received approval for some limited flower-planting around the school and creation of a memorial garden around the flagpole. “It’s the first step,” said Kortelainen. “This will be an ongoing project.” The project has received some in-kind support from gardening supply outlets like Bergeron in Rockland and Le Migrateur in Cumberland.
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ROCKLAND | Inch by inch, row by row, these kids are gonna make a garden grow and help make their school look prettier too. A handful of students from Rockland Public School along with their parents and other volunteers spent an evening last week raking and spreading topsoil and peat moss and then planting a variety of flowers around the grounds at their school. It’s part of a “grassroots” beautification project for the school. “We’ve been asking for something like this for several years now,” said Diana Kor-
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