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Allebaugh 407.246.3423
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City of Orlando Planting Final 7 Trees of 10,000
Trees Initiative
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WHAT: |
Mayor Buddy
Dyer and City Commissioners will be raising
awareness about Orlando’s urban tree canopy by
planting the seven final trees during a week
long celebration of the 10,000 Trees Initiative,
a project to restore the forestry damage
incurred by the hurricanes of 2004. The
commemoration will begin with the 9,994th tree
planting on Friday, December 11 and culminate in
the 10,000th tree planting by Mayor Dyer on
Thursday, December 17 at 3:30 p.m. at Wadeview
park. The project will successfully meet its
goal of replacing the 10,000 trees lost in
Hurricanes Charley, Frances and Jean by 2010.
The City of Orlando’s Families, Parks
and Recreation Department, Green-up Orlando and
Keep Orlando Beautiful, Inc., launched the
10,000 Trees Initiative, a tree replacement
strategy to keep Orlando beautiful. The goal of
the 10,000 Trees Initiative was designed to
replace the urban canopy in the Orlando
community by 2010, so that the long-term effects
of the storms in 2004 are minimized and Orlando
remains “The City Beautiful.”
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WHO:
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Orlando Mayor
Buddy Dyer
Families, Parks and Recreation
Department
Green-Up Orlando
Keep Orlando
Beautiful, Inc.
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WHEN & WHERE:
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Friday, December
11th
• District 4 City Commissioner Patty
Sheehan
10 a.m. at Festival Park at
2106 E. Robinson Street
Tuesday, December
15th
• District 1 City Commissioner Phil
Diamond
9:30 a.m. at Delaney Park at
1055 Delaney Avenue
• District 6 City
Commissioner Samuel B. Ings
11 a.m. at
Clear Lake Park at 2301 29th Street
Wednesday, December 16th
• District 3 City
Commissioner Robert F. Stuart
9 a.m.
at Signal Hill Park at 3877 Watch Hill Road
•
District 2 City Commissioner Tony Ortiz
10 a.m. at Demetree Park at 650 Santiago Avenue
• District 5 City Commissioner Daisy W. Lynum
1:30 p.m. at Parramore Heritage Park at the
corner of Church Street
and Lee
Avenue
Thursday, December 17th
•
10,000th Tree by Orlando Mayor Buddy Dyer
3:30 p.m. at Wadeview Park at 2177 S. Summerlin
Avenue
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