|
The Dewey Beach Civic League is sponsoring its second annual Unity for Beauty Day on Saturday, May 17. Civic league members and Dewey property and business owners will join together to plant flowers, trees and other greenery in the median strips along Route One.
Flowers will also be planted in front of Town Hall and the Lifesaving Station where the town commissioners and official town committees frequently meet.
“We’re very excited to continue our tradition of making Dewey the special place we all know it can be. And this year we’re ‘going native’ by installing plants and trees that are native to this area and will hopefully flourish in our seaside environment,” said Commissioner Diane Hanson, the chairwoman of Beautification Day.
All the plantings have been designed and supervised by Todd Frichtman of Envirotech Environmental Consulting Inc., in Milford. Frichtman is president of the firm and doubles as the captain of the Dewey lifeguards in summers. He is donating his time and his firm’s resources to design the planting areas. As an aquatic biologist, Frichtman specializes in plantscapes that are native to the area that will survive the nor’easters that plague Dewey in the winter as well as the heat waves of the summer season.
To volunteer, contact Hanson at dianehanson@deweybeachcivicleague.org or by phone at 302-226-8728. Volunteers are asked to meet at Sunset Park at Dagsworthy Street and the bay at 9 a.m. Bring any garden equipment available such as trowels, shovels and rakes, as well as garden gloves, sunglasses and sunscreen, and a hat.
|
