Public Service Announcement
For Immediate Release: June 8, 2010
The Town of Greenfield is proud to announce that for the eighth year in a row it has earned the national recognition of Tree City USA.
This year Greenfield also received the Tree City USA Growth Award for demonstrating progress in its community forestry program in the following activity areas:
Education and Public Relations
Continuing education for forestry employees
Tree planting and maintenance
Tree planting on private property
The prestigious Growth Award honors environmental improvement and higher levels of tree care in Tree City USA communities. This has been made possible by a collaborative effort of the Greenfield Department of Public Works, the Greenfield Tree Committee, and by the Kostanski Funeral Home, the Walker Funeral Home and the Smith-Kelleher Funeral Home who created and maintains the Memorial Tree Fund.
The Tree City USA program is sponsored by the Arbor Day Foundation in cooperation with the National Association of State Foresters and the USDA Forest Service.
Greenfield has met the four standards to become a Tree City USA community. Tree City USA communities must have a tree board or department; a tree care ordinance; a comprehensive community forestry program; and an Arbor Day observance and proclamation.
If interested in joining the Greenfield Tree Committee, or in receiving a free tree for your front yard in the next year or two, please contact Janine Greaves at the DPW at 413-772-1528, extension 106.
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“The Greenfield Tree Committee is very pleased to have been part of this effort,” said Nancy Hazard, Greenfield Tree Committee co-chair. “Over the past two years, we have been fortunate in having people with expertise and vision who have made it possible for us to hold several tree walks for the general public, a hands-on planting workshop on Arbor Day, and to start implementing a plan that will ensure healthy trees in our downtown and in our neighborhoods. It is a pleasure to work with this committee, the DPW, and with the Funeral Homes to make Greenfield more beautiful, and our streets cooler in summer.”
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