![]() The club's curriculum topics and concepts provide an integral link to those covered in the elementary classrooms of grades 3 and 4. Landscaping topics such as garden safety & tools, planting, pruning, planning, winterizing, and fostering of appropriate methods for garden maintenance in the school community are also covered. ![]() The curriculum is based on scientific, educational, and mentoring in the areas of ecology, natural & physical science, and animal studies of decomposers, insects, & pollinators. The Junior Garden Club is involved with school and community plantings, as well as community service activities, including Celebrate the Earth and programs at the Dracut Library. The dedication ceremony was held on July 16, 2014. The newly renovated Air Force Sergeant Daniel Robert Square is no longer a neglected triangular intersection within our town, but a beautiful restored memorial, not only for its original dedication, but re-dedicated as a Blue Star Memorial By-Way honoring service men and women past, present and future. After securing plants (Boxwood, Veronica and Drift Roses) we began the task of designing and planting. Once this was agreed upon, the DPW crew prepared our garden plot and we met with a local nursery to make our selection of plants. Continuing on in this project, we met numerous times with our DPW Director to create a garden plot by determining size, planting requirements, and restrictions (mainly height for traffic safety reasons). We also worked with the DPW to select a boulder from Town construction projects and identified the one we would use to insert the Blue Star Memorial By-Way Marker plaque. We had the lawn reseeded, and the Town replaced the flagpole and current square marker with new ones. Once this site was approved by the Town for our Club to begin the project, we worked with our DPW to restore the square. The flagpole and current marker identifying the square were deteriorating, and there was a lack of plantings and curb appeal. ![]() The site had been neglected for over 20 years. The selected square was once dedicated to an Air Force Sergeant who was a Dracut resident. In 2014, our Club selected an all but abandoned, highly visible site in our Town of Dracut as we were preparing to begin the installation of a Blue Star Memorial By-Way Marker. ![]()
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