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Adopt-A-Tree to Decorate on 45th

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As mentioned in an earlier post, the Wallingford Chamber of Commerce will be donating food to FamilyWorks this holiday season in lieu of spending money on decorating the trees along 45th Street in Wallingford.

So – families, friends, clubs,  schools – here’s your chance to decorate a tree or two or more for the holidays! There are 25 trees on N. 45th between Sunnyside and Stone Way that need festive, weather-resistant decorations.

As an adopter, you will be responsible for collecting and hanging the decorations as soon as possible and  removing them sometime during the first week of January 2013.

The Chamber’s goal is that the decorations be “… low cost with no carbon foot print,” so the decorations should not require electrical power and ideally be made of re-used materials.

If you do re-use recyclable or landfill-bound materials in your decorations, Wallingford will get credit for an outreach activity for the Think Green Recycling Challenge. We’ll also want to get a photo of your deep-green tree to send to the Recycling Challenge.

To sign up to adopt and decorate a tree, email barb@raaen with your requested tree location(s) along 45th.  So far we have received requests to decorate 12 trees.

 

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Barb has lived in south Wallingford since 1992. She's a lady with a lopper as volunteer lead of the Burke-Gilman Trail Urban Orchard Stewards, a group that cares for public fruit trees along the Burke-Gilman Trail between Eastern and where Pacific becomes N 34th. In February 2020 Barb founded the current Friends of Meridian Playground which cares for the fruit trees and grounds of the park and holds weekly volunteer work parties on Wednesday noonish. Friday mornings she joins the Tilth Alliance volunteers to manage the care of the fruit trees at the Good Shepherd learning garden. Barb worked for nonprofit City Fruit for 9 years and still partners with them to teach neighbors to grow good fruit locally. Barb is also accumulating records and photos about the Good Shepherd property for eventual publication online.

This Post Has 3 Comments

  2. suich December 2, 2012

    I think this is an excellent and I can’t wait to see the results!

  3. suich December 2, 2012

    oops, I mean, excellent IDEA!

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