On Saturday, April 22nd, our Holy Earth Day, I rolled out of bed and stumbled down the street to Lawrence Elementary School to photograph the community planting trees. There was a huge turnout. Lisa Cahill, the team leader, first had a basic training session to show everyone how to plant the trees properly. After the tree was planted, an official naming ceremony was demonstrated. The planters hold hands around the tree and shout "Trees need people, people need trees, welcome ____." In this case the name of the tree was Treeza. I learned from one of the parents that the kids at the school were required to come out and participate. But it wasn't just the school kids there, other local members of the community gladly came out, grabbed a shovel, and helped with the plantings. There were lots of dirty hands and even more smiles.
I have to be honest. It was the first time I'd volunteered for something in about 3 years and it felt so good to do good that I want to do good again. From here on out, I'm pledging to donate at least 2 days to volunteer work per month.
Here is a great site about recycling.
http://www.earth911.org/static.html
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