The Rotary Club of Rosebank cleaned the Waterwise and Sensory Garden in Delta Environmental Centre in Delta Park.

As part of the club’s community project and commemoration of its birthday, members of the club remove weeds, alien vegetation and do a general clean-up on February 19.

The day of action is part of the international initiative and it took place on a date closer to Rotary’s birthday which is on February 23.

Sybille Essmann from the club said last year Rotary International added the environment as the seventh area of focus into charitable endeavours. “Our club had already then identified the Waterwise and Sensory Garden as a possible project,” she said.

She said the birthday fell during the weekday, but they held it on a Saturday to attract many volunteers. “It was a gloomy and wet start to the day, but it did not take long for the clouds to lift and what a glorious day it turned out to be.” Essmann said they broadcasted the event to other Rotary Clubs through Facebook and the Delta website. “It was gratifying to see that we had a reasonably good turnout, despite the wet start of the day.”

A few days before the event, the club employed Kenneth who lives at the Delta Park to start mowing the blackjacks and weeds which had encroached the garden. The club plans to organise a follow-up to the clean-up day.

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