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CONTACT: Amy Klein or Audrey Leduc at (518) 274-8685 or
info@cdcg.org
FOR RELEASE: Immediate, October 30, 2008.
www.cdcg.org
**Media Advisory/Photo
Opportunity**
TROY
HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS
PLANT 40 TREES IN TROY
Project organized by Capital District Community Gardens
Who: Troy High School
students, community volunteers, and Capital District Community
Gardens’ staff.
What: Volunteers and Capital District Community Gardens’
staff will spend the day planting 40 trees throughout the City of
Troy, focusing on North Central Troy.
When: A tree planting demonstration will be held on
Friday, October 31st at 9am
Where: 3134 6th Avenue between Douw St & Swift
St in North Central Troy
Details: The City of Troy
and Capital District Community Gardens (CDCG) are collaborating on
an important streetscape improvement project. Through CDCG’s Street
Tree Planting program, Troy will benefit from 40 new trees. The
planting is coordinated by Capital District Community Gardens and
funded by a Community Development Block Grant from the City of Troy.
The day will begin with a tree-planting demonstration at 9am, at
3134 6th Avenue in North Central Troy. The citywide tree
plantings will take place all over Troy to aid in the city’s
revitalization efforts and will particularly focus on the North
Central Troy neighborhoods this year.
CDCG has been
organizing street tree plantings in the city of Troy every year
since 1989. For more information please contact 518-274-8685.
Capital District Community
Gardens is a regional nonprofit community service organization that
has been helping local residents improve their neighborhoods through
community gardening and urban greening programs for
more than 30 years. CDCG is
dedicated to growing stronger communities through horticultural
projects in the inner city and currently manages 48 cooperative
neighborhood food gardens. The Veggie Mobile brings fresh produce,
at an affordable price, into low-income, inner-city neighborhoods in
our community.
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