Bulletin
Board News
January
2010 - Gold Leaf Award
TreeLafayette
received the Gold Leaf Award for Outstanding Landscape Beautification
at the Indiana Arborist Annual Conference. +++++
November
2009 News Story
You may also click on
the photo at the end of the video for the text of the entire
WLFI TV-18 story on the TV-18 Website.
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Now Available -
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Tree
Lafayette honors volunteers, supporters
BY BOB
SCOTT • BSCOTT@JCONLINE.COM• NOVEMBER 12, 2009
Arlan
Stavnheim (left) and Rob Pahl prune a tree on Columbia Avenue
in September 2008 in Lafayette. This year, Tree Lafayette
volunteers have planted 129 trees. Since 1994, the group
has planted 1,085 trees. (Journal &
Courier file photo)
Frank Egelhoff said he was
proud to be a tree steward. He and other citizens were honored
Wednesday at a Tree Lafayette meeting downtown.
Egelhoff won the first Tree
Lafayette Neighborhood Tree Steward Award for his efforts
with the Millcreek Homeowners Association. The owner of
a handyman business, he learned planting, pruning and watering
skills for street trees. Tree Lafayette planted 34 trees
this year in the Millcreek subdivision off South 18th Street.
"It's been a good experience for me," he said
of his one-year involvement with Tree Lafayette. "It's
been a learning experience, too. "I'm humbled and honored
to get this award. Tree Lafayette is about giving back to
the community." He said Tree Lafayette can always use
more volunteers. "If you don't know how to do something,
they will teach you," Egelhoff said.
Larry Rose, Tree Lafayette's president, said it was a great
year for the group.
"We received the Outstanding Project Award from the
Indiana Urban Forest Council for planting 262 trees on Twyckenham
Boulevard over three years," he said. He said that
since 1994, the group has planted 1,085 trees, including
129 this year. Since 1995, Tree Lafayette volunteers also
have pruned 5,429 trees.
The Tree Lafayette Outstanding
Volunteer Award was given to Greg Shaner for volunteering
102.9 hours of planting, watering, mulching and pruning
street trees. Tree Lafayette, formerly called the Lafayette
Tree Fund, also honored the following:
Tree Lafayette Preservation
Award was given to Silvia Long and the city of West Lafayette
for the preservation of a 60-foot oak tree. The street was
adjusted, the sidewalk adjusted and the tree was saved.
The Environmental Award was
given to Marvin Hill, a Perry Foam employee, for his "encouragement
of zero landfill practices and recycling."
Retired charter member Orvin
Lindell was honored for serving on the board for 16 years.
He raises money for street trees and holds the record for
raising the most membership funds.
WLFI-TV 18's Jeff Smith was
recognized for the "philosophy of going green in the
Lafayette community."
Robert Kennedy of Indiana
Design Consortium, Inc., was honored for naming Tree Lafayette
and designing its logo.
Special recognition was given
to Georgia Olsen for Web design; Les Ricks for water tank
procurement; Beverly Shaw for community activity; Eli Lilly
for 16 years of funding for tree planting; Ken Ritchey for
starting Tipmont REMC EnviroWatts program; state Sen. Ron
Alting for providing tree saplings to all volunteers; and
state Rep. Sheila Klinker for attending all the Arbor Day
celebrations.
Four directors
were elected to three-year terms on the board: Shaner, a
Purdue professor emeritus; Arlan Stavnheim, a charter member
of the Lafayette Tree Fund since 1993; Rob Galbraith, also
a charter member; and Larry Rose, president and past volunteer
of the year. ***
Letter
from Senator Richard Lugar -
click to read +++++
Thank
you to our volunteers
Tree Lafayette wants to thank
the 157 volunteers that came out to plant 61 trees on Saturday
May 9th along Twyckenham Blvd. This planting and another
36 trees planted later brings our total since 1994 to over
1000 trees. President Larry Rose presented Mayor Tony Roswarski
with a check for 1000 trees that have been planted by Tree
Lafayette since 1994.
The trees were funded with major grants from Alcoa , funded
through the Department of Natural Resources, and Tipmont
REMC EnviroWatts, Other corporate contributors are: Community
Foundation, Eli Lilly, WLFI-TV, Duke Energy Foundation,
Unitarian Universalist Church, Indiana Design Consortium,
Scholer Corporation, Caterpillar, SIA, Lafayette Life Insurance,
Old National Bank, Lafayette Life Insurance, Downham Custom
Homes, and State Farm Insurance.
We thank Soller Baker Funeral Home for allowing us to park
cars on their lot. Also we thank the neighborhood groups
that helped plant for the first time, (Wildcat Valley Estates,
Ellsworth-Romig, Mill Creek, Potters Hollow, Indian Trails,
etc. ), Alcoa, Caterpillar, WLFI-TV, Weed and Feed volunteers,
Jefferson High School, , Art of Living Purdue Student Club,
and Purdue University International Students and Scholars,
Lafayette Park Department employees and the Scout Troup’s
305, and 348, and pack 3348, and Senator Ron Alting for
the Red Oaks.
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Tree
fund's new name takes root
BY MICHAEL MALIK • MMALIK@JCONLINE.COM • APRIL
23, 2009
Arlan
Stavnheim places soil around the root ball of a red sunset
maple as Mayor Tony Roswarski (background left) prepares
to read an
Earth Day proclamation Wednesday near Lafayette City Hall.
- Photo by John Terhune/Journal & Courier
As
part of an effort to find new volunteers and encourage them
to plant and care for trees across the city, the Lafayette
Tree Fund has a new name -- Tree Lafayette. The organization
announced the change Wednesday -- Earth Day-- by planting
a red sunset maple in a city parking lot next to Lafayette
City Hall. Larry Rose, president of Tree Lafayette, said
he hopes his group can inspire residents to plant trees
everywhere.
"We want to tree Lafayette, and that was the whole
purpose of the change," Rose said.
Tree Lafayette's members are beefing up their recruiting
efforts, too, trying to bring neighborhood associations
into the act. The idea: Get neighborhood leaders inspired
to spread the good word about trees.
The group plans to teach the basics about how to prune,
mulch and plant trees.
"The whole idea is for one person to be responsible
so they can organize their own groups and do it," Rose
said.
Lafayette resident Frank Egelhoff said he is getting involved
with Tree Lafayette for two reasons -- to benefit his neighborhood
and to learn more about tree maintenance for his job as
a handyman.
The Mill Creek Neighborhood Association, Egelhoff said,
is hoping to plant more trees, which he wants to help with.
Mill Creek is off South 18th Street, just north of County
Road 350 South.
"I do believe it would add value to the homes and beautify
the neighborhood," Egelhoff said.
Tree Lafayette is funded through grants from foundations
and contributions from individuals. Since the organization
was formed in 1993, it has planted nearly 1,000 trees along
Lafayette's streets. Volunteers also prune existing trees.
Belinda Kiger, Lafayette's community parks and urban forestry
manager, said Tree Lafayette's members not only plant trees,
but educate the public as well.
"The Lafayette Tree Fund, now Tree Lafayette, is a
crucial part of our urban tree forestry program," Kiger
said. "They are responsible for most of the tree planting
on public property."
Mayor Tony Roswarski said more trees improve the quality
of life for the city and can be an economic development
tool.
"Planting those trees along the areas where it would
be impossible for the city to do that ... plays a big part
in helping the beautification of Lafayette," Roswarski
said.
Rose said his goal is to have a tree every 40 feet along
the city's streets or every 20 feet if the location is under
a power line.
"If you want to save the earth, slow down global warming,
breathe fresh air, filter air so your buildings are clean,"
Rose said, "then we have to plant trees."
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"The
best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service
of others."
-Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (1869-1948)