The
City of Taylor celebrated 25 years in the "Tree City USA" program
with a honorary planting of trees with the Randall Elementary School
"Mustangs Green Team" on April 29.
Mayor
Rick Sollars, Golf, Parks and Recreatiion Executive Director Jeff Dobek and
Guido Ulin and Troy Cox of the City grounds crew visited Randall and joined
Principal Cynthia Meszaros and her staff in enabling the school's Green Team --
which gets involved in all things environmental -- and planted two new crab
apple trees in the front of the building off the parking lot.
The
Tree City USA program has been greening up cities and towns across America
since 1976. It is a nationwide movement that provides the framework necessary
for communities to manage and expand their public trees.
More
than 3,400 communities have made the commitment to becoming a Tree City USA.
They have achieved Tree City USA status by meeting four core standards of sound
urban forestry management: maintaining a tree board or department, having a
community tree ordinance, spending at least $2 per capita on urban forestry and
celebrating Arbor Day.
The
tree planting wasn't the only thing going on at Randall today. As City of
Taylor representatives walked the main hall at Randall (with Mayor Sollars
high-fiving students along the way), it was pointed out that pupils were
celebrating good behavior throughout the month of April with some paper plane
flying. So you occasionally had to duck a wayward flight.
Caroline
Patts and Kelly Mitroka assembled the Green Team in the library, where they
explained their mission and talked about environmental efforts in the building.
After
taking a team photo, taskmasters Ulin and Cox put the children to work in the
drizzle, filling dirt and mulch around the trees before spreading some more top
soil around the main walkway, and adding grass seed. Ulin has been planting
trees as part of the Tree City USA program across Taylor for 17 years.
When
the pair of new crab apples grow up and fill out, they will match the existing
one already existing there.
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