Tree planting helps to make communities green

October 28, 2010 12:00 am
  • From left, Henry Lee, Carol Smialek and Susan Lee, volunteers from the Nine Mile Run Watershed Association, helped plant trees in and around Holmes Park in Wilkinsburg on Sunday.
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    From left, Henry Lee, Carol Smialek and Susan Lee, volunteers from the Nine Mile Run Watershed Association, helped plant trees in and around Holmes Park in Wilkinsburg on Sunday.
  • From left, Laird Cooper, Lisa Brown, Brenda Smith and Maryrose Walko of the Nine Mile Run Watershed Association, helped plant trees Sunday in Wilkinsburg.
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    From left, Laird Cooper, Lisa Brown, Brenda Smith and Maryrose Walko of the Nine Mile Run Watershed Association, helped plant trees Sunday in Wilkinsburg.
  • Justin Hynicka, of the Nine Mile Run Watershed Association, moves a tree to be planted on Sunday in Wilkinsburg's Holmes Park.
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    Justin Hynicka, of the Nine Mile Run Watershed Association, moves a tree to be planted on Sunday in Wilkinsburg's Holmes Park.
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It was root, root, root for volunteers who planted trees on Sunday in Wilkinsburg's Holmes Park. They did so on behalf of the Nine Mile Run Watershed Association.

Volunteers did the same thing Saturday along Schoyer Avenue in Swissvale.

These regreening efforts were among many undertaken nationwide during October, which was declared National NeighborWoods Month by Alliance for Community Trees, a national nonprofit. National NeighborWoods Month is sponsored through a grant from The Home Depot Foundation.


First Published October 28, 2010 12:00 am
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