2004 JEMS Sullivan Renaissance Project

JEMS won first place in the Environmental Impact Award
given by Ben & Jerry's Ice Cream

AND

Third place in the Sullivan Renaissance Program in Category C

Thanks to the kind land donation to the Village of Jeffersonville, by Greg Brooks and Maurice Seaton, the owners of the Blue Victorian, and the First National Bank of Jeffersonville, the property next to the Schadt Memorial Bridge has been transformed by the NYSDOT into an area for a landscaped garden. The JEMS (Jeffersonville Enhances Main Street) organization has made this their 2004 Sullivan Renaissance focus project. Mulch that was donated by Beechwood's Lumber and transported by Adam Diehl has been spread in the area. A gazebo, purchased at a discount from Stephenson's Garden Center has been placed. Sixth graders from the Sullivan West Jeffersonville-Youngsville School are working on the garden design. The Third and Fifth graders are tending to the seedlings, in their classrooms, that they planted earlier this year. Those plants will be planted into the village gardens by the clock, memorial board and gazebo later this spring. A painting by long time resident Gloria Warner, featuring the bridge over the creek, will be made into a permanent sign that will be placed near the entrance to the gazebo. That will be enhanced with a quote written by Dawn Erlwein, JEMS coordinator, which will say "As the tiniest of dewdrops to the mightiest of winter thaws make up the river, so too does our community, where each person, from smallest to greatest, from the distant past, through the present, and into the future, unite together to create a never-ending flow of life, all similar, yet uniquely different."