Glen Cove, NY, Oct. 19, 2015…Young gardeners joined Mayor Reggie Spinello, the Glen Cove Beautification Commission, Glen Cove C.A.R.E.S. (Cancer Awareness Resource Education Source) and volunteers from the Glen Cove Boys and Girls Club and Glen Cove High School DECA Club to plant beautiful mums and pink tulip bulbs during a recent community planting event and fall clean-up day.  This annual program is sponsored by the Glen Cove Beautification Commission and Glen Cove C.A.R.E.S. (Cancer Awareness Resource Education Source) and over 40 volunteers lent the program their green thumbs to help plant 1,000 pink tulip bulbs and 50 mum plants.   The event was created by the late Terry Petikas, the founder of Glen Cove C.A.R.E.S to recognize National Breast Cancer Awareness Month in October and raise awareness of the importance of early cancer detection techniques. 

Photo captions:  Photo Credit - Tab Hauser
Photo 1:  Mayor Reggie Spinello engages with children from the Glen Cove Boys and Girls Club.
Photo 2:  Children from the Glen Cove Boys & Girls Club lend a green thumb with Glen Cove’s fall clean-up and planting day.
Photo 3: Members of Glen Cove’s Beautification Commission and Glen Cove High School DECA Club help spruce up the area outside of the Brewster Street Parking Garage.
Photo 4:  Damion Stavredes, Coleen Spinello and Marilyn Hauser of Glen Cove’s Beautification Commission get ready to plant mums.