Kiwanian kids, Scouts give Grist Mill a makeover

Ladies in Waiting at the Grist Mill Museum

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Michael Pocress cleaned the cabinet til it shined.

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Jake Pellegrini with an statue of an old-time firefighter.

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Kristen Mihalich and Taylor Aloisio with "The Miller" inside the Grist Mill.

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Liam Perini, 13, a member of Boy Scout Troop 121 and the Builder’s Club at the high school, cleans the glass that covers the old mill grinder blade.

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Members of the builders club added water to their newly-planted seeds.

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The group planted flower seeds around a tree in front of the Grist Mill Museum. From left were eighth-grader Alexis Guner, and seventh-graders Jasmine Jimenez, Joanna Ambrosio and Demi Lonergan. They were supervised by Beautification Committee Chairwoman Rose Trum and Kiwanis President Carmine Tufano.

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The girls showed off their Builders’ sweatshirts.

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Key Club, Builders Club and boy scout members, along with supervisors and committee heads, gathered in front of the Grist Mill Museum last Saturday.

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About two dozen members of the East Rockaway Junior/Senior High School’s Builders and Key clubs — extensions of the East Rockaway Kiwanis Club — as well as local boy scouts, gathered at the Grist Mill Museum in Memorial Park last Saturday to landscape, plant, sow, water, clean and polish the museum and grounds, inside and out. The event also marked “Kiwanis Family Day.”

“These are the most unselfish group of kids,” said East Rockaway Kiwanis President Carmine Tufano. “They come early, the stay late. It’s just makes me smile.”

Co-chairwoman Carolyn Ferretti and Beautification chairwoman Rose Trum welcomed and helped to supervisor the group.