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May 5, 2006 GREAT HUNGER MEMORIAL CLEAN UP More
than 100 volunteers helped “Free a Tree,”on Sunday,
May 7, at the Great Hunger Memorial at V.E. Macy Park in Irvington. Volunteers
planted 200 native trees and shrubs and cut and removed invasive vines
from tree trunks. This project will restore and enhance the landscape
around the Great Hunger Memorial, a sculpture dedicated in memory of the
brave Irish people who fled to America in the 1840s to escape famine. The
program, conducted by Westchester County Parks and the Saw Mill River
Coalition/Groundwork Yonkers, is held in conjunction with last month’s
Pitch in for Parks program, an annual spruce-up of county parks, trails
and nature preserves. The
Great Hunger Memorial can ONLY be accessed via the northbound lanes of the
Saw Mill River Parkway. The turnoff for the park (at the site of the
former Cantina restaurant) is approximately one mile north of exit 17
(Ashford Avenue). Southbound traffic can exit the parkway at exit 17
(Ashford Avenue - Ardsley/Dobbs Ferry), turn left to go east on Ashford
Avenue, then re-enter the Saw Mill River Parkway northbound. Subscribe
to the Parks E-Club to get up to the minute program and event information,
and valuable discounts.
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