Brantford & Brantford Sunrise News
Posted by Rita Marie Hadley
MAKING URBAN FOREST A REALITY
To launch Earth Week 2016, the Rotary Club of Brantford and Rotary Club of Brantford Sunrise joined forces. On Saturday April 16th, between the two clubs ‘dug in’ and contributed funds to help finalize Brantford’s newest urban forest. Exemplifying Rotary’s humanitarian objectives and ‘Service Above Self”, around one hundred volunteers from both clubs alongside family members, friends and Medix College students planted nearly one thousand trees...
Rotarians-at-work were the first of several planting bees in the New Forest in the City planned for Earth Week. This is the final year of a five-year project to plant fifty thousand trees on a sixty-five-acre parcel of undevelopeable industrial land in Brantford.
As the Rotary Club of Brantford celebrates its 100th anniversary next year, we reflect on our shared legacy of a mature forest when the club celebrates its second century of service.
Pictured are Brantford Sunrise Rotarians Phil Race, President Kevin Davis and President-Elect Justin Bester and Rotary Club of Brantford President Rita-Marie Hadley.