Ansonia lawn care business adopts spot at corner of Ford, Finney Streets

ANSONIA - Mayor David S. Cassetti welcomes the City’s newest Adopt A Spot volunteer with Lawlor’s Lawn Care of Ansonia.

Lawlor’s will oversee the rotary at the corner of Ford and Finney Streets on the Hilltop, adjacent to Prendergast School. Yesterday, they added assorted perennials, fresh mulch and decorative hay and pumpkins.

Owner Marty Lawlor has promised the tilting street signs will be straightened too!

Since launching the Adoption program three years ago, the Mayor now has 20 highly visible locations throughout the City maintained by either residents or businesses.

This is shared from the City of Ansonia Facebook page.

Ansonia Rotary Club beautifies downtown corner, supports food bank

ANSONIA - The Ansonia Rotary Club recently replanted flowers and groomed the bushes and shrubs at Haddad Park in downtown Ansonia at the corner of Bridge and Main Streets. 

The Club adopted the spot last year, and has been responsible for keeping it looking well ever since.

Club President Lori Veillette and Vice President Joe Pinto are leaders of the Ansonia Club, which recently donated $2,500 of groceries to the Samela Food Pantry at Christ Episcopal Church. 
Funds for the purchase were a grant from the Rotary District Foundation, and the delivery was arranged by Presidents David Morgan of TEAM, Inc. and Patrick Charmel of Griffin Hospital.

The Club also awarded its annual financial scholarship to two Ansonia High School graduating seniors: Tyler Cafaro and Maliqa Mosley-Williams. Each will receive a grant of $500.

The club meets at Crave Restaurant on Tuesdays at 12:15 p.m. 

Call Joe Pinto for more information, 203-623-1105.

Note: This information is shared from the Valley Independent Sentinel.

Ansonia updates Adopt-a-Spot initiative progress

Ansonia Rotary Club members planted flowers in Haddad Park downtown. / Contributed photo 

ANSONIA - Mayor David S. Cassetti’s Adopt-A-Spot beautification program enters its second year by welcoming two new adoption partners who began beautifying their sites Wednesday. One is the Ansonia Rotary Club which brought several volunteers to prep their large flower garden at Haddad Park located on the corner of Bridge and Main Streets downtown.

At the corner of Tremont and East Main Streets, Road Ready Used Cars began prepping their site with weed removal to be followed by an extensive flower planting. 
For those familiar with Road Ready’s impressive business property landscaping, owner Ron Saracino promises similar beauty at their Adopt-A-Spot site.

A total of 15 highly visible sites throughout the city have been adopted by businesses or residents to maintain and provide plantings.

The mayor says he is open to other ideas from residents or businesses to support his ongoing Clean & Green initiative. 

Have a beautification idea you would like to initiate, suggest or discuss? 

Call the mayor’s office, 203-736-5900, or email gmartin@ansoniact.org.

This is a press release from Mayor Cassetti's office.

Big thank you goes to those who adopted spot on Ansonia Hilltop

This morning Ralph and I rolled and walked to John G. Prendergast School to vote before the rain started and I had to take a photo of the beautified traffic island.
I had seen the area decked out for Halloween but didn't take a photo.
I want to thank Erin, Nicole, and Stacy for adopting this spot at the corner of Finney and Ford streets. Great job!

Ansonia business owner adopts a spot on busy corner

 City of Ansonia Facebook page photo

John Zaleski, left, from Wakelee Memorial Funeral Home, has adopted a spot at the corner of Division Street and Wakelee Avenue in Ansonia. 
He is pictured with Mayor David S. Cassetti who launched an Adopt-A-Spot initiative in June in an effort to beautify the city. 
Several spots have already been adopted by residents and business owners.


Information shared from the City of Ansonia Facebook page.

Updated list of Adopt-A-Spot sites in Ansonia

See Thursday's post about the just-launched program here.

Cassetti launches Adopt-A-Spot program in Ansonia

East Main Street Gateway landscaping was completed this week. The photos show the site before and after the work was done.
The site will now be privately maintained by a city resident as part of Ansonia’s new Adopt-A-Spot program./ Contributed photo

ANSONIA - For years, most communities throughout the state have offered successful Adopt-A-Spot programs which offer select parcels of public property to be maintained privately.

Today, Mayor David S. Cassetti launches Ansonia’s first such program. 

“It’s a program I’ve been wanting to initiate for some time,” said Cassetti. “Like other towns, I envision this growing quickly in popularity here. 

“Bottom line is, it creates desired community beautification involvement, and will reduce the amount of public works manpower hours needed annually for these sites, and redirect those hours elsewhere, such as parks and other infrastructure maintenance and improvement.”

The basic overview of Ansonia’s Adopt-A-Spot is an individual, civic group, business or other, agree to volunteer consistent maintenance of a pre-determined city property including weeding, litter pickup, possible mowing, pruning, flower planting, etc.

In exchange, the City will erect an attractive and visible Adopt-A-Spot sign which includes site sponsor name and/or business logo. 

Sites are high traffic areas. Those interested are also welcome to submit other locations for consideration not shown on the adoption target list. Sites can maintained by sponsors or outsourced to a third party landscaper.

Four sites have already been privately adopted including a “pending adoption.”

The City has undergone a major “Clean & Green” initiative under Constituent Services Director Greg Martin and Cassetti. Twice annually citywide volunteer litter cleanups in spring and fall debuted in 2017; hundreds of graffiti tags were removed in fall ’16; a 50-count graffiti tag removal is schedule later this month; and a major landscaping project on the Armory grounds hill began earlier this week. The Armory project is being sponsored in full by ION Bank, Regional Water Authority, and Southern Connecticut Dental Group.

Initial Adopt-A-Spot sites listed below. 

For a complete overview of the program, visit www.cityofansonia.com or contact Greg at Cassetti’s office, 203-736-5963 or gmartin@ansoniact.org.

CITY OF ANSONIA ADOPT-A-SPOT PREFERRED SITES

SITE                                                                            STATUS

HISTORICAL MARKER TRAFFIC ISLAND (ELM ST)  Adopted/Southern Connecticut Dental Group

EAST MAIN ST/TREMONT STREET GATEWAY  Adopted/Private Resident

MOTT ST/MYRTLE AVE TRAFFIC ISLAND  Adopted/Private Resident

TREMONT ST/BIG Y PLAZA TRAFFIC ISLAND  Adoption Pending

SCHUMACHER DR/MARSHALL LANE TRAFFIC ISLAND  Available

WAKELEE AVE/DIVISION ST TRAFFIC ISLAND  Available

JEWETT ST/COOKS POND HISTORICAL MARKER/FLOWER BED Available

FORD ST/FINNEY ST TRAFFIC ISLAND  Available

ELM STREET HISTORICAL ISLAND (front of Police Station)  Available

MAIN STREET TREE DIRT BASINS, FLOWER PLANTERS &

SITTING PARK INLET (Adjacent Lewis Jewelers)  Available

DIVISION ST/SILVER HILL ROAD TRAFFIC ISLAND  Available

FATHER SALEMI DRIVE/CENTRAL STREET TRAFFIC ISLAND          Adopted/Private Resident

DR. HADDAD PARK (Corner Main St & Bridge Street)  Available

This is a press release from Cassetti's office.