Local School Gets Makeover

Beautification is in focus this fall at Horizons-on-the-Hudson Magnet School in the Newburgh Enlarged City School District. As part of the school’s citizenship theme, students and parents, teachers and administrators and community members joined together to lend a hand beautifying the grounds of the school. With rakes and shovels in hand, teams of volunteers worked to plant new gardens in the front of the building and in the back parking lot and near the kindergarten wing. These improvements were made possible through donations from Leptondale Nursery and Morehead Auto Sales.
In addition, students in Mrs. Sullinger’s accelerated “Unlimited Horizons” 3rd grade class raked and weeded and transformed a concrete median into a colorful and inviting centerpiece by planting a garden of mums as a Constitution Day project.
Students in Mrs. Ambrosetti’s kindergarten class did their share by planting mums near the kindergarten wing.
“The best thing about our ‘beautification’ project,” said Principal Lisa Buon, “is that everyone in the school community joined in this effort to improve our environment. The colorful beauty of our new landscape serves as a reflection of our civic pride and a reminder of how working together can make such a big difference.”