Local club gives back to Princess Margaret Secondary

The Princess Margaret Secondary School was on the receiving end of a number of items donated to the school by the Eastern Orators Toastmaster Club.

The Club on Monday presented a bookshelf, books, a laptop and a variety of fruit trees to the educational institution.

Club President, Alicia Chandler, told the media the items were given “in recognition of our partnership with the school.

“This is where we hold and host our Toastmaster Club meetings. We haven’t done that for a while as we have gone virtual, but we intend to do some hybrid meetings…. Today [Monday] we would have donated a series of trees in recognition of National Arbor Day which is celebrated tomorrow [September 22nd] and a laptop and bookshelf for the school. This is something dear to our hearts as we do this probably every three years.”

Accepting the items on behalf of the school, Principal Jonathan Corbin expressed his gratitude to the Club. He said the fruit trees, which were soursop, sugar apple, Surinam Cherry and mammee apple trees, are especially welcome as the school is looking to further develop its orchard.

“We are extremely grateful for those fruit trees because we are in the process of expanding the orchard… There has always been an agricultural thrust and this will help to bolster the stock of fruit trees that we have, especially in the light of the fact that our golden apple tree which had been there for a number of years fell victim to the disease that is in the region. There is quite a void in the original orchard there that can be filled by some of the trees that we received today.”

(MG)