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The Enterprise — Michael Koff

Blue Ribbon Business: Ella Parmenter, right, gives her father, Jerry Parmenter, owner of Elemental Landscapes, a blue ribbon sticker during a school assembly last Thursday at Voorheesville Elementary School shile Laurie Lynsenko, the school's psychologist, looks on. Recognized as a 2014 National Blue Ribbon School by the United States Department of Education, Voorheesville Elementary has in turn expressed its gratitude to local businesses that have helped students and staff, by designating them "Blue Ribbon Businesses." Elemental Landscapes was honored for its work in 2009, designing and creating the Blackbird Paradise Garden, a large community vegetable garden and hands-on classroom for the kids, and also for the sign and garden at the entrance to the secondary school and most recently the Community Bulletin Board. "My children are the fifth generation of my family to live in Voorheesville," said Parmenter. "I take great pride in giving back to the school district."