LAKESIDE — Neither rain, nor sleet, nor snow could keep a local troop of Junior Girl Scouts from planting Jacaranda trees at Lakeview Elementary School on March 17.
Fortunately, Mother Nature held off the downpour until after the trees were in the ground.
Troop 6291 joined forces with the Lakeside Mile of Trees to plant 15 Jacaranda trees along the fence line of the academy.
The trees were small, but that didn’t deter the vision the girls had of improving their school campus.
LAKESIDE — Neither rain, nor sleet, nor snow could keep a local troop of Junior Girl Scouts from planting Jacaranda trees at Lakeview Elementary School on March 17.
Fortunately, Mother Nature held off the downpour until after the trees were in the ground.
Troop 6291 joined forces with the Lakeside Mile of Trees to plant 15 Jacaranda trees along the fence line of the academy.
The trees were small, but that didn’t deter the vision the girls had of improving their school campus.
“This is a whole bunch of fun,” scout Kristi Henzie announced almost before the first- round of trees were planted.
This month, the Girl Scouts of America are celebrating their 100th anniversary and this troop was working on their bronze award.
These scouts are in the fifth grade at Lakeview school and some have been together since preschool.
Their troop leader, Mary Ann Angeles, who has been at the helm for five years, said that the big thing that her scouts wanted to tackle was beautifying their school.
“They do a monthly clean-up of the campus and they also recycle paper and plastic,” she said.
Scouts Hailey Allread, Miranda Medford, Kyleigh McQueen and Lindsey Jones agreed that this tree planting project would make their school look better and also make fresh air for the environment.
Two boys also participated, Chad Allread and Garrett Taylor, getting down and dirty planting trees too. Bill Bise, the custodian, was busy helping as well.
After the trees were planted the scouts and their moms proudly showed off their new rose garden.
According to troop co-leader, Christia Allread, a few years ago, the 25-year old established rose garden was threatened because of the new mulit purpose room planned to be built.
The school staff, scouts and moms didn’t want to lose the beautiful garden, so they dug up 41 bushes and took them home.
After two years of home care, the rose bushes went back to school and into a newly created rose garden for the campus.
“This makes our school look better,” said scout Cierra Riddle. “When we are adults the trees will be huge and we can look back on this day.”
The Lakeside Mile of Trees is planting along roadsides and are continuing to look for volunteers who want to work on beautification projects.
If you have some ideas of where to plant trees or to donate funds or help in any way then please call Gail Sabbadini at 443-7166 or myself at 443-1133.
The Lakeside Garden Club has also generously donated funds toward the purchase of trees.
