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Earth Day emphasis on tree-planting BY RACHEL STERN THE NEWS BULLETIN
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Earth Day events in Nanaimo on Sunday (April 22) include tree-planting, a wild foods festival and a beach party.
rmed with a shovel, Sarah Manney will do her part to contribute to Earth Day by planting a tree. She hopes others in the community join her and help green the space around the Beban Park turf fields. “It’s alarming the number of trees being cut down here and around the world every day,” said Manney, international service director of the Nanaimo Interact Club – a youth Rotary group. Manney said not many people know about the Interact Club, which functions just like other Rotary groups, creating community programs and funding international projects. “It’s really a variety of things and we’re just actually a bunch of teens trying to make a difference,” she said. The Interact Club and City of Nanaimo parks, recreation and culture department, which donated the trees, partnered to host the treeplanting and barbecue Sunday (April 22) from 10 a.m. to noon at the Beban Park turf fields. Each dollar donated at the barbecue will go to the Earth Day Network, an organization that works with more than 22,000 partners in 192 countries to involve more people and create more diversity in the environmental movement. The network will use the money to plant trees around the world. ◆ See ‘TREES’ /14
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