County to pass out free trees<\/p>\n
Pinellas County Urban Forestry will host a tree giveaway for county residents at 4550 126th Ave. N, Clearwater, from 9 to 11 a.m. on Saturday, April 18.<\/p>\n
A variety of tree species will be available at this drive-thru event on a first-come, first-served basis. Each household may receive up to two trees to help improve our urban tree canopy. Trees will be in 3-gallon containers and average 5-feet tall.<\/p>\n
Trees available while supplies last:<\/p>\n
\u2022 Taxodium distichum (Bald Cypress)<\/p>\n
\u2022 Ilex cassine (Dahoon Holly)<\/p>\n
\u2022 Quercus virginiana (Live Oak)<\/p>\n
\u2022 Pinus palustrus (Longleaf Pine)<\/p>\n
\u2022 Pinus elliottii var. densa (South Florida Slash Pine)<\/p>\n
\u2022 Magnolia virginiana (Sweetbay Magnolia)<\/p>\n
Tierra Verde Fire Station celebrates new engine<\/p>\n
The Tierra Verde community recently helped celebrate Fire Station 21\u2019s new engine with a truck push ceremony, where residents had the opportunity to manually push the new engine into the fire station\u2019s bay.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis new engine represents our continued commitment to Tierra Verde,\u201d says Fire Chief Richard Graham \u201cWe couldn\u2019t be more proud to serve this community, day in and day out. This engine gives us the advanced capabilities needed to respond when lives are on the line.\u201d<\/p>\n
Among its capabilities, the new engine can carry 500 gallons of water, 1,000 feet of fire hose, and medical and extraction equipment.<\/p>\n
After more than 16 years of service, the previous Engine 21 will transition to a backup resource at the station.<\/p>\n
In addition to the new truck, Tierra Verde Fire Station has added a rescue boat and jet ski for water rescues around the island. The station building has seen several improvements over the past year, including new flooring, new roof, painting, and a new station generator.<\/p>\n
The new engine was funded through the Tierra Verde Fire District Funds, a special district property tax.<\/p>\n
PSTA celebrates retiring drivers<\/p>\n
On March 6, PSTA’s Operations Team bid farewell to five bus operators as they retired from the agency.<\/p>\n
\u2022 Patty Davidson \u2014 26 years and 2 months of service<\/p>\n
\u2022 Zelda Robinson \u2014 20 years and 8 months of service<\/p>\n
\u2022 Steve McAllister \u2014 19 years and 11 months of service<\/p>\n
\u2022 James Whittaker \u2014 19 years and 1 month of service<\/p>\n
\u2022 Richard Nagle \u2014 22 years and 8 months of service<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"County to pass out free trees Pinellas County Urban Forestry will host a tree giveaway for county residents…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":207558,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[596,95131,202,204,203,199,201,200,3263,95132],"class_list":["post-207557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-pinellas-county","tag-pinellas-county-urban-forestry","tag-st-pete","tag-st-pete-headlines","tag-st-pete-news","tag-st-petersburg","tag-st-petersburg-headlines","tag-st-petersburg-news","tag-tierra-verde","tag-tierra-verde-fire-station"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207557","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=207557"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207557\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/207558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}