Friday, January 16, 2009

TreeKeepers starts January 22

One of the city's long-time volunteer programs starts up again next week. The first TreeKeepers class will be held Thursday night from 6-9 p.m. at the ARC, 1701 West Ash and the other two sessions will be Saturday morning and the following Tuesday evening.

Through TreeKeepers, volunteers learn about many aspects of tree management and are then asked to share 36 hours of service on parks tree projects held on Saturday mornings.

The great thing about this program is that not only to participants learn about trees, but they make an important and lasting impact on our community. How wonderful it is for our volunteers to plant and prune trees in parks that will be enjoyed by hundreds of others for generations to come!

There is still room for additional participants and we invite you to participate!