The parking lot, at the southern end of the Ronald Webster Park, has been given a more aesthetic appearance following some beautification work undertaken by the Rotary Club of Anguilla.
Members of the Club have taken advantage of the recent showers of rain to beautify a small area of the parking lot allocated to them by the Government of Anguilla in 1992. Working last weekend, the Rotarians removed the overgrowth and re-arranged the traditional aloes [aloe vera] plants into the rectangular area, over which there is a 30-foot pine tree planted there in 1992. Mr. Keith (Chinnicks) Brooks, a member of the Club, is arranging the fencing of the particular area.
Among those at the scene were the youngest President in the history of the Rotary Club in Anguilla, Ms. Shameica Hodge, and a number of other members.
Ms. Hodge, 33, who became President of the Club on July 1, this year, told The Anguillian newspaper early on Saturday, October 10: “We are cleaning up this area at the tree planted by the Rotary Club on the 15th of October 1992, in the year of the presidency of our now honorary Rotarian, Harris Richardson (Mr. Kool). We will be putting a plaque on the tree on October 15 to commemorate the day it was planted. We also have plans to erect a bench and a small library so that persons can use the area for recreation. We have with us members of A&A Services Ltd who have been assisting us with our clean-ups. They are now here taking out the aloe vera plants and replanting them in order. We are saving them because they are plants for healing.”
Ms. Hodge continued: “We have several projects going on. We are about to start a Covid-19 food bank. We will be installing a free library at Best Buy (West). It will have books that have been donated to promote literacy; and then we have a pink fashion show to bring awareness of breast cancer on the 24th of October at the Coyaba Villa at Lockrum.”
The young Rotarian President is the Deputy Labour Commissioner, and Acting Registrar of Lands in Anguilla.
Speaking in support of her, was veteran Rotarian, Harris Richardson, who said: “It is amazing to know that she is practically a child but has the brain of a much older person. She thinks quickly and everything about her is just right. There is so much about her that is unbelievable.”
