The New York Boulders opening day is Thursday, May 12th.
Boulders opening day is May 12th
Pomona
Pomona is a village partly in the town of Ramapo and partly in the town of Haverstraw in Rockland County, New York, United States. It is located north of New Hempstead, east of Harriman State Park, north of Monsey and west of Mount Ivy. According to the 2010 Census, the population was 3,103, a 13 percent increase from the 2000 figure of 2,726.
Rockland County Youthfest is back
After two years, Rockland County Youthfest is back. The 22nd annual expo is presented by the Rockland County Youth Bureau.
April is National Gardening Month: Time to Prune
Down to Earth Living in Pomona Provides these Tips
(Pomona, New York) April 7, 2022 — According to the US Department of Agriculture, April is National Gardening Month. Many people await the arrival of spring specifically so they can begin to work in their gardens. One of the first tasks is to see what might need pruning.
Just like gardeners need to get their tools and supplies ready for the spring growing season, so should they take stock of which plants need to be cut back. Pruning in spring is a great opportunity to cut out dead, diseased or dying stems, and to reshape shrubs that have gotten overgrown and unwieldy. A good “haircut” also makes way for new growth and helps to encourage more flowers, foliage and colorful stems on a wide range of plants.
Plants that flower on the same year’s growth such as lavender, fuchsias, buddleia and ornamental grasses can be pruned almost to ground level before they put energy into new growth. Early-spring bloomers like lilac, forsythia and rhododendron produce flowers on wood formed the previous year and should be pruned immediately after they finish blooming. If you prune them later in the growing season or during winter, you’ll remove flower buds and decrease the amount of spring bloom.
Treat roses that bloom only once per year the same as other spring-blooming shrubs, by pruning after they finish blooming. Repeat bloomers, including hybrid teas, floribundas and grandifloras, are pruned mostly to shape the plant or to remove winter-damaged canes. If they become overgrown, cut them back in early spring.
Hedges of beech and cherry laurel as well as boxwood topiaries are best pruned after they have leafed out in early spring. This gives them the form in which they will grow for the season. Since many evergreens only have new growth on the tips of branches, wait to prune them until after new growth for the year is complete. Then it will have the whole growing season to form new buds for growing and filling in next year.
Young fruit trees should be pruned as soon as buds form in order to form them into their desired shape and allow their energy to be devoted to making fruit. Perennial herbs like rosemary, oregano and sage grow leggy and woody over time and benefit from being pruned in spring as growth begins.
Tips on Pruning Correctly
- Use high quality pruning tools that have been cleaned and sharpened since the previous season. We recommend by pass pruners which work like a scissor rather than an anvil pruner which tend to squash the branch rather than make a clean cut.
- Remove all dead, diseased or damaged stems as they attract insects and invite diseases to develop. Also remove crossing branches, water sprouts and suckers.
- Cut just above a node where the leaves, buds and shoots emerge from the stem. This way you can manipulate new growth to form in a desired direction, as nodes form on different sides of a stem.
- It’s important to cut at a downwards angle, so rainwater runs quickly off the wound. Cutting flat runs the risk of infections entering the plant, creating ideal conditions for fungi to take hold.
- After pruning, mulch plants with a generous layer of garden compost or well-rotted manure, to give them a boost.
Rockland Paramedic Services Celebrates 30 Years of Saving Lives Across Rockland County
Special Event to be Held May 20th at NY Boulders Clover Stadium
ROCKLAND COUNTY (April 1, 2022) –Rockland Paramedic Services (RPS) will celebrate the organization’s 30th anniversary at New York Boulders Clover Stadium in Pomona on May 20th during National Emergency Medical Services (EMS) week. The event, which will be a fundraiser for the RPS Benevolent Association, will also be an opportunity to celebrate the career and retirement of RPS Executive Director Ray Florida who retired in January of this year, as well as recognize the dedicated staff who work tirelessly to save lives across Rockland including during the pandemic. RPS is the primary provider of 911 response and emergency transportation in Rockland County.
The gates will open 6:30 at the stadium and the festivities will kick off at 7pm with the start of the game when Ray Florida will throw out the first pitch. A special ticket price of $15 has been established so that those who want to support RPS and the organization’s Benevolent Association will be able to purchase a ticket and receive a free Boulder’s baseball cap while a portion of their ticket price will go to the Association. The special offer can be accessed at http://tinyurl.com/rps30 Everyone who purchases a ticket through the special link will also be entered to win a prize package valued at $500 generously donated by the Palisades Center.
“The staff at Rockland Paramedic Services has saved thousands of lives over the past three decades and I couldn’t be prouder of their work and dedication. I am looking forward to celebrating with them at the May 20th event and honoring their contributions, sacrifices, and efforts to provide the finest emergency medical care in the region,” stated Florida.
Throughout his career, Florida spurred RPS to try new ways to save lives, including being the first to use cellular telemetry to transmit EKGs and launching a Home-Based Crisis Intervention Program as well as a Mobile Mental Health Crisis Team—Rockland’s Behavioral Health Response Team or BHRT—which was the first of its kind in the nation and has since become a template used by other municipalities to launch similar crisis units.
Today, RPS and Rockland Mobile Care (RMC) maintain a fleet of 18 ambulances, employ a staff of over 100, and run a 24-hour communications center which houses one of the most advanced computer-aided systems in the region, while RPS operates seven highly equipped rapid response vehicles serving towns across Rockland County. Together, RPS and RMC respond 24/7 to a combined call volume of more than 45,000 EMS calls per year.
Rockland Paramedic Services is a 501(c)3 not-for-profit Advanced Life Support Service operating in Rockland County. They are the advanced life support first response service that operates in conjunction with the local volunteer ambulance corps. Through the EMS 911 system, they respond with the volunteer ambulance corps to all medical emergencies. Rockland Paramedic Services has made a firm commitment to staff to be the best trained and qualified paramedics in the Hudson Valley. RPS has concentrated its efforts toward providing the latest state-of-the-art equipment and lifesaving medical techniques available. To find out more visit www.rocklandparamedics.org or call 845-627-8612 or send an email to info@rocklandparamedics.org.
