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September 22, 2009

One million trees

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The American Bar Association has pledged to plant one million trees across the United States in the next five years, and the first ones will go in the ground around Baltimore's Franklin Square Elementary School in West Baltimore.

Tuesday between 9 a.m. and noon, students, lawyers and voluntters will plant 10 to 15 trees at the Franklin Square schoolyard, surrounding streets and nearby park, as well as weed, mulch and install flowering bed as part if a campaign to beautify the Lexington Street neighborhood

The ABA is working partnership with the Alliance for Community Trees and the Parks & People Foundation.

The tree planting event will also serve as the launch for NeighborWoods Month, a community service campaign to heighten awareness about the value of trees in cities all around the nation.

Posted by Susan Reimer at 7:00 AM | Permalink | Comments (1)
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What a great Idea. Trees add so much beauty all around. They help to clean the air. Give birds a place to live as well as other wildlife.

Dan and Deanna "Marketing Unscrambled"

Posted by: Dan and Deanna | September 23, 2009 2:59 AM

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About Susan Reimer

Susan Reimer has spent 16 years writing about raising kids - among other topics - in her column for The Baltimore Sun. And every time son Joseph or daughter Jessie passed another milestone - driver's license, college, wedding or a move to a new military duty station - she has planted another garden. Now she will be writing about those gardens - and yours - here on Garden Variety.

Susan isn't an expert gardener, but she wasn't an expert mother, either. Both - the kids and the gardens - seem to be doing well in spite of her.

She lives in Annapolis with her husband, Gary Mihoces, who loves to cut his grass but has noticed that there seems to be less of it every time the kids pass another milestone.

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