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NJ Public Gardens and Arboreta Receive Legislative Recognition
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New Jersey Senator Christopher “Kip” Bateman, center right, (R-Somerset, Hunterdon, Mercer and Middlesex), presented a joint resolution from the New Jersey Senate and the New Jersey Assembly to Leslie Parness, center left, President of the Garden State Gardens Consortium on Wednesday, October 16, during the non-profit organization’s 5th anniversary meeting at The Frelinghuysen Arboretum in Morris Township. All of the members present received official copies as well. By Tom Castronovo Executive Editor Garden State Gardens Consortium, a non-profit organization whose members include 22 New Jersey public gardens and arboreta, received recognition from
the New Jersey Senate and the New Jersey Assembly on the occasion of their 5th Anniversary. The organization, whose mission is to increase public awareness of and appreciation for New Jersey’s public gardens by promoting their horticultural, educational,
historic and artistic value and to facilitate the collaboration of allied professionals in order to promote public garden visitation, stewardship and support, was incorporated in 2008. New Jersey Senator Christopher “Kip” Bateman, (R-Somerset, Hunterdon, Mercer and Middlesex) who
was selected as the “2013 Legislator of the Year” in the Senate by the Constitutional Officers Association of New Jersey, presented a joint resolution from the New Jersey Senate and the New Jersey Assembly, co-sponsored by Bateman, Assemblyman Jack Ciattarelli
and Assemblywoman Donna Simon on Wednesday, October 16, at 10:30 a.m., to the members of the Garden State Gardens Consortium at The Frelinghuysen Arboretum in Morris Township. “The members of the Garden State (Cont. on pg. 8)