communities across the nation<\/a>, DeKalb Township celebrated the upcoming Arbor Day and the 250th anniversary of the United States\u2019 sovereignty by hosting a tree planting event to promote a healthier environment and a more unified community.<\/p>\nIn partnership with The Morton Arboretum and Chicago Region Trees Initiative, DeKalb Township was able to plant about a dozen native trees, such as the American Sycamore, outside the DeKalb Elders Care Services building.<\/p>\n
Tara Russo, executive director of Elder Care Services of DeKalb County, said the tree planting initiative has been in the works for months.<\/p>\n
\u201cPeople applied to be a part of it, and we were just lucky enough to be picked to be the first one,\u201d Russo said. \u201cWe\u2019re excited because we have a senior garden that we\u2019re trying to build. The trees will outline it wonderfully for the community to enjoy.\u201d<\/p>\n
Clinical Director of Elder Care Services of DeKalb County Colleen Parks said they plant fresh vegetables in their open garden during the summer that anyone can come and enjoy.<\/p>\n
Zippora Bailey, a Shabbona resident, volunteered at the initiative with her father to celebrate Earth Day, strengthen her connection to the DeKalb community and support its environment.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Arboretum is where me and my husband got engaged two years ago. I always see them doing things in the county, like educating kids, educating people,\u201d Bailey said. \u201cIt\u2019s just about nature, but it\u2019s nice when it actually helps native species.\u201d<\/p>\n
Elder Care Services of DeKalb County have a three-year agreement to maintain the trees, with help from the Sweet Life Garden Group. Russo also encouraged DeKalb and Sycamore community members to volunteer to help maintain the trees.<\/p>\n
To learn more about volunteer opportunities with Elder Care Services of DeKalb County and their senior garden, visit their website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DeKALB \u2013 DeKalb Township hosted a community tree planting initiative, \u201c250 Trees for Tomorrow,\u201d from 9 a.m. to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":598772,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,3,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-598771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-news","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598771","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=598771"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598771\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/598772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=598771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=598771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=598771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}