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NEWS RELEASE: California Arbor Day Celebration
February 28, 2017
NEWS
RELEASE/MEDIA ADVISORY
California
Arbor Day Celebration
For Immediate Release: 2/28/17
Contact: Colleen
Cadwallader (916) 549-7341
Sacramento
Tree Foundation and City of Sacramento celebrate ranking as the “greenest city in the States”
Who: Sacramento
Tree Foundation, City of Sacramento, and La Familia Counseling Center
What: Plant a tree
to celebrate California Arbor Day and recognize Sacramento’s 41st year as a
Tree City USA
Where: La Familia’s Maple Neighborhood Center (3301
37th Avenue)
When: Tuesday, March 7, 2017, 1- 2
pm
Story: Sacramento
has a lot to celebrate this California Arbor Day on March 7. The innovative
Treepedia project from MIT recently declared Sacramento the “greenest city in
the nation”. Sacramento celebrates its 41st year qualifying as a Tree City USA
member. And the beloved Sacramento Tree Foundation celebrates its 35th
anniversary on that day.
Sacramento has transformed itself
into the ‘greenest city in the nation’ as confirmed by MIT’s recent Treepedia
project. Sacramento, once called the City of Plains, now has one of the most
mature urban forests thanks to early pioneers like, Captain John Sutter, Mrs.
Crocker, C.K. McClatchy, and Mrs. J. Henry Miller. These leaders have been
joined by countless others including Mayor Phil Isenberg and Sacramento County
Supervisor Illa Collin who together spearheaded the founding of the Sacramento
Tree Foundation in 1982.
In celebration of these exciting
milestones, on this California Arbor Day, the City of Sacramento and the
Sacramento Tree Foundation will plant a tree at La Familia’s Maple Neighborhood
Center.
A place for neighbors to gather, grow, and prosper, La
Familia’s Maple Neighborhood Center’s celebratory tree is a promise from the
Sacramento Tree Foundation and the City of Sacramento to return to the Center
to plant many more trees. On this California Arbor Day we are reminded that
there is still
much work to do to bring a healthy, diverse, expansive tree canopy to every
neighborhood in our region.
Visuals: La
Familia community members and children making wishing tree tags to plant hang
on the new tree, VIPs speaking and planting tree (invites have been extended to
Mayor Steinberg, Council Members Schenirer, Harris, and Carr, Sacramento County
Supervisor Kennedy).