Calling the community to help plant tees and celebrate Earth Day! On Sunday, April 26th from 10am – 12noon, ERCA will host its annual Earth Day® Tree Planting Celebration at Florence & McHugh, just east of the WFCU Centre. More than 2,000 trees will be planted.
“We’ve
been hosting this event since 1998,” explains Danielle Breault Stuebing, ERCA’s
Director of Community Outreach Services. “It’s a true family event, and
it’s been wonderful to see so many families return year after year. As
their children are growing, so are the trees that are being planted.”
Planting trees
helps improve water quality, removes carbon from the air and provides shelter
for birds and other wildlife. “Over the past sixteen years, this event
alone has added more than twenty thousand trees to the City of Windsor,” Breault
Stuebing goes on to say. “As this is part of the Detroit River watershed,
the trees planted help to improve water quality for the entire Detroit River
and ultimately, our Great Lakes.”
There are nature
crafts for kids and ERCA’s Youth Engagement Team will host an e-waste
collection to benefit Computers for Kids. Organizations that have
registered as ‘Green Teams’ will be recognized at the event, and the winners of
this year’s Earth Day Contest will be honoured. With more than 2000 trees
of varying sizes to be planted and mulched, while ERCA does have a supply of
gloves and shovels, guests are encouraged to bring their own as well.
“Earth Day is
about taking action – all of us working together to protect our watersheds and
restore natural areas to help improve our quality of life and the
attractiveness of this region,” Breault Stuebing adds.
Learn more at ERCA.org.
by Alan Halberstadt www.alanhalberstadt.com
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