Plan ahead: Events coming up in the Capital Region
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#518TulipTracker scavenger hunt is online
ALBANY – With the Tulip Festival not in person for the second year in a row, the public can use the hashtag #518TulipTracker to enjoy tulips online during May.
Participants can enjoy the self-guided Tulip and Garden driving tour available on Discover Albany’s website which includes flowers at nearly 40 historic and heritage sites, attractions and parks.
Also available on the Discover Albany app is the #518TulipTracker Scavenger Hunt, which gives 10 fill-in-the-blank clues and sends participants through downtown Albany to track down the answers at landmarks, parks and heritage sites.
Tulips bloom everywhere in the world
Alice Chamley
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Tulips are a very hearty and beautiful flower that never fails to bloom! They are the most colorful of all spring flowers, and also the easiest flowers you ll ever grow.
Just plant the bulbs in the fall for blossoms the following spring. When we see their colors beginning, we know spring is really here.
We have only a short time to enjoy them because they don t last very long, about one to two weeks, depending on the weather. They do best if it stays cool.
Historians believe the tulip probably originated on land somewhere between Northern China and Southern Europe. The plants were soon cultivated in the Ottoman Empire, (present day Turkey) and then imported into Holland in the 16th century.
CSR Ambulances
Lt Governor in presence of Arif Mohammed Khan, Governor of Kerala inaugurates Tulip Festival at Tulip Garden in Srinagar on April 3, 2021. KL Image by Bilal Bahadur
The Divisional Administration Kashmir flagged off two ambulances at TRC, Srinagar under the Corporate Social Responsibility initiative of the presence of National Highways and Infrastructure Development Corporation Limited (NHIDCL). NHIDCL handed over the ambulances equipped with basic life-saving support to Divisional Administration under MoRT&H as a CSR initiative. The ambulances were flagged off to operate in Anantnag and Baramulla districts while a similar facility was extended to District Ganderbal in January 2021 earlier. Pandurang K Pole said the NHIDCL helps to ensure medical comforts to the residents of Kashmir valley during the trying times of the current Covid-19 situation and subsequent times.
I think of April as daffodil month since it is when these beauties burst into bloom. They are clearly the most popular of spring flowering bulbs to appear in home
Sara Holthouse
CLYMER While living in the middle of a pandemic, communities are looking for ways to still be able to have traditional events, even if that means virtually with modifications.
Clymer’s traditional May Day celebration will be held virtually this year, on May 14. According to Clymer Central School Superintendent Beth Olson, all of the traditional components of the ceremony that has been put on by the school since 1939 will be preserved in some way.
The main difference is the audience.
“Spectators will be limited to the girls participating in the ceremony … due to current restrictions on public gatherings,” Olson said. “We will be streaming the entire ceremony on our YouTube channel for our students, staff, and community to view virtually.”