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Below is a (new) draft letter to Premier Ewart Brown that you may copy and paste. It is best if you modify it with your own thoughts but if you don't have the time you can simply add your details at the bottom and send it off.
Dear Premier,
I support the need for a new Acute Care Hospital in Bermuda. However, I object to any development whatsoever in the Botanical Gardens. They are a Bermudian national icon in addition to being a beautiful, protected national park, a major tourist attraction and a superb educational and scientific resource. All parks are incredibly valuable to society but the Botanical Gardens are extra special and are widely used by the entire community. We cannot afford to lose them!
I am aware that there will be difficulties rebuilding on the existing hospital site but these issues will be short term whereas the effects of destroying the heart of the Botanical Gardens will be permanent.
Please preserve the Botanical Gardens intact for future generations.
Yours Sincerely
Name
Parish/ Town
Country
Click on the link below to find contact information for all the relevant people (including the new Ministers) that your letter should be addressed and copied to.
Address your letter/fax or e.mail to:
Premier Ewart Brown
The Hon. Dr. Ewart Brown, Justice of the Peace (JP), Member of Parliament (MP).
The Cabinet Building, 105 Front Street, Hamilton HM 12, Bermuda.
Telephone (441) 292-5501
Fax (441) 292-8397
E.mail: ebrown@gov.bm
Copy your letter/fax or e.mail to:
Paula Cox (Minister of Finance)
Government Administration Building
30 Parliament Street
Hamilton HM12
Bermuda
Telephone: (441) 295 5151 Ext. 1495
Fax: (441) 295 5727
E.mail: pcox@gov.bm
Nelson Bascome (Minister of Health)
Government Administration Building
30 Parliament Street
Hamilton HM12
Bermuda
Telephone: (441) 278 4900 Ext. 4901
Fax: (441) 292 2622
E.mail: nbascome@gov.bm
Neletha Butterfield (Minister of Environment)
Government Administration Building
30 Parliament Street
Hamilton HM12
Bermuda
Telephone: (441) 297 7590
Fax: (441) 292 2349
E.mail: nbutterfield@gov.bm
Sustainable Development Unit
Central Policy Unit,
Cabinet Office,
105 Front Street,
Hamilton HM 12
Telephone: (441) 298 7193
Fax: (441) 296 0555
E.mail: chartingourcourse@gov.bm
Sustainable Development Round Table
c/o The Sustainable Development Unit,
Central Policy Unit,
Cabinet Office,
105 Front Street,
Hamilton HM 12
Telephone: (441) 298 7193
Fax: (441) 296 0555
E.mail: sdrt@logic.bm
Bermuda Hospitals Board
P.O. Box HM 1023
Hamilton HM DX
Bermuda
Telephone: (441) 239-2182
Fax: (441) 239-2182
E.mail (preferable form of communication for the BHB): newsite@bermudahospitals.bm
Please copy e.mails to so that we can keep a record of how many are sent. Thanks!
Please also copy your hand written letters to this address:
Save The Gardens
Garden Cottage
Oleander Hill
Smiths
FL08
I found a class of students from the Bermuda College today in the Botanical Gardens. They were on a field trip and they asked me to tag along. I learned so many things about the gardens that I did not know before. It was as if I was a child all over again, learning things about nature for the very first time.
DID YOU KNOW: All hibiscus flowers only open for one day and at the end of that day they close and die. Each hibiscus flower you see is a completely different flower from the ones the day before!
I didn't know that and it took me a while to get my head around it. I had always thought that these flowers simply open and closed each day.
I saw a plant that attracts flies (for the purpose of pollination) by smelling like rotting flesh. I also discovered a tree that had exploding fruit together with a sausage tree that didn't grow sausages but may in fact be a cure for cancer. I found gorgeous purple passion flowers, cotton plants with soft fluffy seeds and some bizarre looking cacti - to name only a few!
]]> I learned more about the Sensory Garden that was created for the blind and will be demolished if the Government does not decide to rebuild the hospital on the existing site. A lot of the flowers and plants have strong but pleasant smells and there are features around the garden specifically to guide those without sight. It's a very tranquil place and I can't imagine it being bulldozed.We spent 3 hours in the gardens learning about the diversity of plant life there and many of the students were very passionate about saving this place of beauty, science and education. I hope they will encourage their friends and families to speak out too - because if we don't show the Government how muh we love these gardens then we risk them being taken from us and from our children.
The plant that smelt of rotting flesh!
In the Exotic House
• An island where open space and natural habitats are preserved for current and future generations to enjoy by building in different ways and concentrating on building in a few key areas; redeveloping previously developed sites rather than encroaching on green space
]]> Living within Bermuda’s limits• An island with a reputation as one of the most environmentally conscious places on the planet. One where we make responsible lifestyle choices
Primary priorities
Open space protection and management. Once land is built upon, it effectively eliminates other uses. Rehabilitating and restoring land for other uses is expensive… It therefore makes sense to use this limited resource wisely by directing development to brownfield and previously-developed sites
We need to find a balance between the spatial development needs of the population such as housing, a new hospital, business, light industry, boating, fishing, etc., and spaces for recreation and nature
Maintain between 30–45% of Bermuda’s land mass as open space for future generations.
Why:
Bermuda’s economy is to a significant degree dependent upon a beautiful landscape with open spaces. Visitors and businesses come to the island for this beauty and residents relish the recreational options that open space provides... If the current rate of development continues, there will be very little open space left, leaving a suburban Bermuda with poorly planned and distributed open spaces.
Government commitment to protect Government-owned greenfield sites
What:
A commitment to not develop on Government-owned open space prior to the publication of the new Development Plan.
Why:
Government must lead by example. “
Finally the broad consultation process in creating this document has highlighted serious concerns about:
• over-development and the piecemeal destruction of open space that will leave an ugly legacy for future generations;
• maintaining access to open space, to fulfill a basic human need for contact with nature
• an ad-hoc, unstructured approach to tourism-related development, including overuse of Special Development Orders
The petition to Save The Gardens (online and on paper) now bears over 3,000 signatures but we'd like more! If you haven't signed it yet - click here or visit any of the following places to sign it on paper:
The Phoenix Woodbourne
The Phoenix Drugstore
The Lemon Tree Café
Brighton Nurseries
Aberfeldy Nurseries
Noah’s Ark
Animal & Garden House
Spicelands, Inwood, Hinson Hall Riding Centres
Kit’n’Kaboodle
St John’s Church
St Augustus’ Church
St Monica’s Church
Sousa’s Landscaping
Conrad’s
Marine Locker
Bermuda Bookstore
Rock Island Coffee Shop
PJ's Warehouse
This morning Johnny Barnes was wearing green trousers in addition to a Bermudaful shirt with flowers and bright green leaves. He even had a luminous green vest under his shirt!Thanks to everyone who made the effort to wear green today (or something close to green!). We had fun on the roundabout this morning with Johnny Barnes! I told lots of people in green that I love them and if I didn't get the chance to tell you, and you are wearing green - then let me tell you something - I really love you! Yes I do!
Click on the link below to see more pictures from today.
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Saltus Senior School
A passing policeman took this picture!
As I was leaving the Botanical Gardens today after we had a press conference there I switched on my ipod, which was set to play random tracks. "Give Peace A Chance" by John Lennon came on and it reminded me that I have something to tell you!
Back in 1980 John Lennon spent a long stay in Bermuda and he was walking in the Botanical Gardens one day when he found the flower "Double Fantasy". This flower suddenly inspired him to write all of the music for this final album, which he also named after the flower! He thought the name was a perfect description of his marriage to Yoko.
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Sunlight on my face
You and me together
We are in our place
The gods are in the heavens
Angels treat us well
Oracle has spoken
We cast the perfect spell
Not many people know that story and I think it's pretty cool! How can anyone consider destroying the place, which provided the inspiration for John Lennon's final album? Imagine what kind of impact this beautiful place could have on people in the future! Should taking that away from Bermuda's residents and visitors really be on the table on at all?
Have Your Say! Sign the petition, write to the Premier and join the Virtual March!
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You can print the JPEG or download and print the PDF file and pin it up in your office.
Friday is also Breast Cancer Awareness "Denim Day". We certianly don't want to take any focus away from this other important issue and ask that those participating in "Denim Day" try to wear something green along with their denim.
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The campaign to save the Botanical Gardens is making good use of today's technology. With a handful of volunteers and a shoestring budget, the Save the Gardens campaigners have launched a website and an online discussion forum or Blog. ...
Online Gardens petition draws 1,400 signatures
MORE than 1,400 people have signed an online petition launched this week to oppose plans to build a new hospital on the Botanical Gardens.
'Cadillac hospital plan too costly'
Government has opted for an expensive "Cadillac hospital" in the Botanical Gardens which the Island may not even need, Opposition Leader Wayne Furbert claimed last night.
Who says we need a new hospital?
A reader writes...
Click on the link below to read more letters to the editor.
]]> Letters to the Editor:The current debate over the expansion of the Bermuda Hospital at the cost of losing a significant part of Bermuda's natural resources (the Botanical Gardens and the Arboretum) highlights the underlying problem of how society treats health. Bermudians suffer one of the highest rates of diabetes (13% of the population) and nearly one-third of the residents are medically obese. These conditions are partly responsible for the $422 million in health care costs island-wide expected this year. Poor diet and inadequate exercise are leading causes of these conditions. If more Bermudians were to take advantage of the gorgeous, healthy space afforded by places like the Gardens, we would need less hospital resources. To sacrifice a possible preventative treatment in order to treat disease will only lead to more disease.
Kathleen Frith
Assistant Director
Center for Health and the Global Environment
Harvard Medical School
Ms. Frith, a Bermudian, lives in Cambridge, Mass.
A plea to save the Gardens
September 20, 2006
This letter was sent to Philip Butterfield, chairman of the Bermuda Hospitals Charitable Trust and copied to The Royal Gazette.
Dear Sir,
I thank you very much indeed for your very informative letter of August 31st 2006, advising me and the rest of our colleagues, as to the proposed location for the new Acute Care Hospital for Bermuda. I have several reasons for objecting strongly to this Proposal. My first objection is to he obliteration of Bermuda's finest collection of horticulture located in the Garden for the Blind, sensory Garden, the Hibiscus border, the Butterfly Garden, the North Garden, the Cactus House, the Exotic House, the Palm Collection, the J.J. Outerbridge Building Collection and Show Building and finally, the collection of trees and shrubs in their variety and abundance for all to see and get ideas for their own homes.
This assault on this fine collection, in fact, is so serious, I have to believe that the Agricultural Dept. itself, Tom Sleeter and his good people, cannot have possibly agreed with this site, because it is in their hands that Bermuda's horticultural future rests. Their predecessors, who built the Agricultural Dept. to what it is today, always realised that our tourism, and now international business industries, greatly depend on the many, many years of research carried out by the Dept. of Agriculture to ensure the beauty of Bermuda's roadsides, parks, open spaces and finally, most important of all, our Bermuda gardens.
These gardens carefully worked on by us residents of Bermuda, the majority of us garden lovers, and whose hobby is fed from ideas gained from this display described above, that is about to be destroyed. The claim that the current hospital site can be used for replacing green space lost is just that - a patch of grass and nothing else. Destroyed will be over a hundred years to work and research by dedicated Bermudians, and friends from overseas, who have contributed so much to make sure Bermuda remains lush and green. This destruction of years of work will take over a hundred years to replace.
My second objection is in connection with the building itself, not being fully though out in these days when land space is so important. The new hospital could be designed still in an area of choice anywhere in the central parishes (but not where another contribution to Bermuda's future is to be destroyed) and build multi-storey, up to between five and seven stories, thus saving land for green space around the new structures. Hospital patients in a ward system that is multi-storey, with water views on all sides, is in itself a contribution to good patient care and therefore good health.
A young man recently produced his idea of a new hospital structure to be relocated on Dundonald Street that is very worthwhile looking at. He used highrise and while the newspaper story and photography could not tell all, there appeared to be green space and parkland around this new hospital concept. The public need to know how many sites were examined, where are the conceptual drawings and plans for each site, and finally, what was the overall objection to sites considered. I agree with the public view that the Arboretum and the Bermuda Botanical Gardens should remain sacred and available for the people of Bermuda.
My third objection is that the entire Botanical Gardens will become a total “hospital site” instead of a dedicated Botanical Gardens with the full freedom of public use. There is nowhere else in Bermuda where the calm of the Botanical Gardens as they are, can be recreated, and the argument that the old hospital site is a replacement contribution, is total nonsense. The present Botanical Gardens acreage as created over the many years, is extremely user friendly as a very large recreational area for all Bermudians, where they feel welcome, and they take advantage of that welcome with their picnics, games and general relaxation. The most important feature of all, is that this has become the centre for all agricultural, horticultural and artistic displays that brings great joy to the thousands of Bermudians that attend and express their pleasure and delight in what they see during those particulars days. These shows inspire thousands of children into hobbies, knowing they have somewhere to show their hobbies off.
My fourth objection has been that of the lack of communication with the public in general, before making the decision. This confirms to the public that this Government does not care at all about public opinion and general Bermuda welfare, when Senators and Ministers support the answer to the public outcry with “get used to it!” To assault a major Bermudian public amenity that has served Bermuda well for so long, is a dictatorial approach to solving a site problem in the laziest possible way, coupled with a “cannot be bothered attitude” to take the time to discuss publicly all the sites.
Now the leaders of this project are faced with a public outcry that could have been avoided if full public consultation naming all the sites, had taken place prior to the decision making process. This brings us to the current state of affairs of the Premier now announcing that the Government may revisit the site choice because of the public outcry - a delaying tactic to give the Government Ministers time to further justify their original decision.
Finally a visit to the entire property owned by the Bermuda Hospitals Board, beginning with the car parks and water catchment on the hill in the north, along Berry Hill Road and then own to Point Finger Road and from the west through the “Springfield” property (this may necessitate the purchase of some of this property back) all the way to the hospital eastern boundary bordering the Botanical Gardens, shows that there is already a huge site available for construction of the new hospital, in separate phases.
I urge all the directors and members of the Bermuda Hospitals Charitable Trust who have not visited the current properties in the possession of the Hospitals Board, described above, to do so, because they will find it easier to make their own conclusions. I urge you Sir, to make sure that all the directors and members in the Bermuda Hospitals Charitable Trust, really do support the destruction of the Botanical Gardens. We need this information before asking us to go out to raise funds for building a hospital on the wrong site.
J. CHRISTOPHER ASTWOOD OBE, JP
Sandys
Hospital alternatives
September 26, 2006
This was sent to the Bermuda Hospitals Board and copied to The Royal Gazette.
Dear Sir,
I submit the following for your consideration:
1) Properties owned by the Bermuda Hospitals Board which can provide the space required for building a new facility: The site could extend from Gladyn, through the old King Edward VII building, Springfield, Berry Hill Road, Queen Elizabeth II Nurses Residence and present parking lot as required. I suggest that comments about building on the existing site are misleading as this area is remote from the existing operational hospital.
2) The advantages of this location with a relatively long but narrow footprint are:
a) views from patient rooms westwards up Hamilton Harbour.
b) convenience to main arterial roads (East Broadway, Berry Hill road, Point finger Road and Trimingham Road to South Road and Harbour Road).
c) convenience to existing and established helping services on Point Finger Road. (Doctor's offices, PALS Dialysis Unit, Bermuda TB Cancer and Health Association, St. John's Ambulance, Charity House), and nearby on Berry Hill the Bermuda Red Cross and further doctor's offices.
d) potential for vehicle access including bus.
e) underground parking for staff, visitors and ambulatory patients from different levels.
f) existing newer building for eventual conversion to Government offices e.g. Works and Engineering, Accountant General, Department of Planning all of which do not need to be in the city centre, or as an eventual land bank for a future hospital.
g) eliminate the justified public outcry about despoiling the Botanical Gardens to the loss of the Agricultural Exhibition, valuable and irreplaceable flora, the Blind Garden, etc.
h) BELCO are currently reinforcing their service to the hospital complex and the main sewer line runs along Point Finger Road to which connections should be practical.
i) consideration to providing nurses residence and facilities on site.
3) Any use of in the Botanical Gardens would require access roads remote from the existing arteries noted in 2b above which would further despoil their use and enjoyment as well as unnecessary costs. I trust that these comments will assist you in developing a satisfactory resolution to your important decision.
C.H.B. CRISSON P.ENG.
City of Hamilton
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LETTER FROM BERMUDA: TREE SURGERY
Bermuda politics is inscrutable. Ten years ago, there was a political
outcry when former long-serving Premier Sir John Swan was behind a
plan to open a McDonald's fast food restaurant on the Island.
Opposition to this move came from all sections of the community. Such
ventures were, ordinarily, not permitted to operate here, since fast
food franchises, it was felt, would ruin Bermuda's charm. The
`scandal, no doubt contributed to the ruling United Bermuda Party
Government's loss at the next General Election.
That sounds very reasonable. What made it impossible to understand is
that we already had a McDonald's, and a big Kentucky Fried Chicken
outlet, too. It's not worth explaining, even if it could be explained.
Now comes an equally obtuse development that threatens to harm
government, this time the Progressive Labour Party that has ruled us
since 1998, when the legacy of the McDonald's fiasco helped cost the
United Bermuda Party its 40-year stranglehold on office.
The subject this time is a hospital. Yes, we already have one. In
fact, we have two. One is an all-purpose affair, with emergency wards,
intensive care and so on, and the other is what was once called a
mental institution.
The main hospital is called the King Edward VIII Memorial Hospital. It
was built in the mid-1960s. Despite the standard Bermudian delusion
that we have the best of everything in the world, the Hospital, as it
is known, is a competent cottage hospital, one that can treat the
day-to-day illnesses, and then refer patients in need of more
specialised care to larger institutions on the Eastern Seaboard of the US.
No one especially loves the Hospital, but it does the job. Most
Bermudians were born there, and most die there. It only tends to makes
news headlines when a misdiagnosis leads to complications or death,
which is relatively rare these days. The Hospital is probably a better
facility than a community our size has a right to expect. The fact
that we're 800 miles from the next hospital may have something to do
with that.
In August, to everyone's astonishment, it was announced out of the
blue that the Hospital building has only a few years left to live.
Although less than 50 years old, it will cease to work as a Hospital,
we were told, five or six years from now. No one has explained why.
Simultaneously, we were told that a new hospital would be built to
replace it, slap bang in the middle of the Botanical Gardens, one of
only two open spaces near the City of Hamilton. The Botanical Gardens
has a special place in our hearts. It is where families gather to meet
and barbeque. It contains a number of plants that now survive nowhere
else. It is the repository of most of the remaining cedar trees, the
national symbol that was all but killed off in the late 1940s when a
blight hit the trees. It is the site for our annual Agricultural
Exhibition, the most popular event on the Bermudian calendar. And it
is where John Lennon found inspiration for his final record in a plant
he saw there, called "Double Fantasy."
In the weeks before this announcement was made, the Bermuda Government
had launched its sustainable development initiative, aimed at
protecting what green space we have left. The construction of the new
hospital and its approach roads, waste disposal facilities and other
accompanying structures will destroy the Botanical Gardens forever,
and suck up 14 acres of what little undeveloped land remains in
Bermuda. Construction will make the Gardens unusable for years. Cement
trucks will make the South Shore approach to Hamilton and the west a
living nightmare.
Some of the community was appalled at this news. At a series of public
meetings held to placate the public, barely a single black person
attended, while the whites who did attend were irate beyond measure.
Black people have apparently waited so long for a black government
that they will not oppose it on any grounds.
In the debates, it emerged that the old hospital could not be rebuilt
onsite because to do so would cost more than Government would allow to
be spent. It had capped the proposed cost of the project at $500
million, the exact estimate for building the new hospital, whereas
rebuilding on the existing site would apparently cost $600 million.
The Minister of Health who made the initial announcement hinted that
she didn't think a new hospital was a necessary or a good idea, so she
was demoted and sent to run Education as a punishment. She wasn't
pleased. Her successor, discussing the new hospital, said the decision
to destroy the Botanical Gardens was "irreversible" and we should "get
over it".
When we didn't get over it, the Premier waded into the fray. First, he
made the single most inane statement ever uttered by a politician. He
said that the Gardens would be incorporated into the new hospital.
When you came round from surgery, he said, you might wake to find a
tree in the bed next to you, if the tree "needed sustaining".
Back on the planet earth, he said that the decision to wreck the
Gardens might be reversible, if public opinion demanded it. The new
Minister, a young woman of no experience whatsoever, has not told us
how she feels about being made the most public of liars. (The Premier
had previously ignored the demands of public opinion on Independence,
as expressed by a majority of the voters in a petition, when their
views differed from his.)
Per bed, the new hospital may end up being the most expensive medical
facility in the world. It will not be the best hospital in the world,
though, just an overbuilt local medical facility setting broken bones
and scratching its head over more complicated matters. Building it in
the Botanical Gardens will be the greatest single act of vandalism in
Bermuda's history, and drive a very large nail into the coffin of our
culture.
No explanation has been forthcoming as to why the old building is
suddenly no good, why the new one will cost so much, why is has to be
placed in one of the two green spaces left in the middle of the Island
(when any one of a dozen better sites exist in Hamilton), or why none
of the background to any of this can be made public.
The only logical reason for this act of apparent madness is that
someone, somewhere, expects to receive a massive kickback, a giant
bribe, to allow this to happen, as seems to be the way of the world
with the Government. No other explanation makes rational sense,
because no government could be as incompetent as this one seems to be.
Corruption in high places, once it gains a foothold, does not let up
until the entire fabric of society has been corrupted. As we watch a
hapless regime destroy our open spaces and our freedom, in order to
line its own pockets, our unofficial national anthem, "Bermuda is
Another World", has taken on a rueful tone.
Dear all,
I know a 13 year old might not make a difference, but what’s the harm in trying? When I first heard about a third of the Botanical Gardens being demolished, I thought that nothing could be done, and it would just be another large step to making Bermuda more of a concrete jungle. But then I was inspired. I heard about this ‘Virtual March’ and knew that I might actually be able to make a difference. I went to school the next day, digital camera and ‘Save The Gardens’ sign in hand, and took pictures. I was amazed at how all of the BHS students wanted to take a part, and in 40 minutes I had 46 pictures of over 100 people.
I really hope that they will not build the hospital in our magnificent gardens, and will continue to do all I can to prevent it. It is such a tragedy that our adults are prepared to take away one of few green spaces we have left, and that us, the children, will have to live with it the rest of our lives.
Thank you to all my fellow students who let me take their picture, and to Ms. Nash without whom I would not have pursued this.
Caitlin O’Doherty
When I think that even a part of the Botanical Gardens might be lost to Hospital construction it makes me want to cry – for myself because I love the Gardens, but also for Bermuda. It is such a treasure and it would be impossible to replace these 10 acres! What I fear people don’t realize is that the Gardens are much more than an open space or a park.
Our Botanical Gardens are made up of many collections of plants that were conceived, planned, and then planted and cared for, by a number of horticulturalists and gardeners over many decades. They are the heart of a beautiful, landscaped, MATURE open space, a place to meet friends and family, renew yourself.
]]> The Gardens are also a place to learn about and experience the wonder of plants, and the importance of plants in our lives. Have you ever seen a young child try to stretch his arms around the trunk of the Peepul tree? (It would probably take five or six children to actually accomplish this!) Have you ever seen the face of a child when they hold the crushed leaves of the camphor tree in their fingers and realize that they smell like the medicine their mother puts on them when they have a cold?! Have you seen people having fun trying to figure out where a funny looking fruit came from and then learn that it’s from the African sausage tree that they were reading about the other day? Have you ever played around the rubber tree and realized that you may be the third generation of your family to have done just that? I have had all these experiences and more and they are priceless.Please do not deny Bermudians, all residents of this precious island, and our visitors, the experience of joy, wonder and learning that the Botanical Gardens offers to everyone now and in the future!
As Baba Dioum said “In the end we conserve only what we love. We love only what we understand.”
If you haven’t visited the Gardens lately, please take the time to do so now! Take one of the free, guided tours or just go for a picnic or a leisurely stroll. I’m sure you will find it a wonderful experience and I think you will understand.
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Lisa Talbot sent in this photo of her children Jesaiah Khyree Talbot and Jezhari Anaya Talbot. Lisa wrote:
My children deserve to have open spaces in Bermuda. They are the future of this country and we have already used up most of the natural resources so please save the gardens for them. Unfortunately we live in a concrete jungle and have no yard so, we go to the BG where we love to spend time at the gardens playing and picnicking. And of course the Exhibition and many other events that are held there are part of our history and culture that should never be taken away.]]>
Thanks to Tina Nash for helping Bermuda High School students join the Virtual March. To see all the pictures from BHS click here!
Thanks to Craig Diamond for encouraging his Graphic Arts Class at MSA to join the Virtual March. To see all the pictures from MSA click here!.
All of the pictures from both schools are great but when you see this one I think you'll agree it's the most creative!!
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