Over a dozen organizations and individuals were given sharp, green Onesies on the sixth floor of the Connecticut Science Center.
The One City Celebration and Awards Ceremony featured an overview of the City of Hartford One City, One Plan — adopted in June 2010 — and gave trees to those who have already taken action to meet some part of the Plan of Conservation and Development goals.
The Urban Forestry Working Group was one that proposed an ordinance to promote Hartford’s urban forest; the Tree Ordinance was recently adopted by City Council. Bike Walk Connecticut, which organized the Discover Hartford Bicycling and Walking Tour, also won an award. The Urban League of Greater Hartford was honored for the Litter Attitudes survey that its Youth League (along with Respect Yourself Hartford) administered last summer.
Other awards recipients included: Frog Hollow NRZ, Parkville NRZ, Asylum Hill NRZ, Julio Concepcion, Northside Institutions Neighborhood Alliance, Green Ribbon Task Force, Fairfield Avenue Neighbors Association, HUB of Hartford, The Market at Hartford 21, City of Hartford Employee Green Action Team, Thomas Swarr, Leadership Greater Hartford and Ted Carroll, and the Hartford Planning & Zoning Commissioners.
COO David Panagore said that if people have ideas for projects that fall within the goals of One City, One Plan (POCD 2020), then the City will support them.
Richard
Just to get it off my chest whoever came up with Onesies take them to the wood shed right away. Trying to hold down my breakfast. Just one more reason many of us don’t get involved. Cute just doesn’t work. Giving away trees at a media event and around here they cut them down just doesn’t work.
Now a plea to the Urban Foresty folks who ever you are. Please come out to a meeting on Tuesday April 12, 6:00-8pm at the Pope Park Recreation Center. We are in the sterilizing Stalinization of the street scape (they are cutting down trees fasting than a jack rabbit) on Park and we fear that the north side from Laurel to Park Terrace will be next. All to put in old fashion looking street lamps and bricks.(bricks are a whole other sorry story)
What a job they did at our bus stop. Everything gone this am. They have started up the steet with a lamposts and a row of trees are in their way. The city told us last year that the Friends of Pope Park are behind the new streetscape 100 %. Damn this bus stop and the one across the street will be hot hot hot this summer with no shade. But who cares about us, as we wait outside the FPP drive around in their air condition cars. Bet you $1.00. Never saw the president or the treasurer of FPP waiting for the bus.
Kerri Provost
Would it work if I told you that a number of people/organizations who did not want their trees donated them to someone who will be planting a grove of them in Pope Park?
Richard
Well isn’t that nice. How old will I be when those trees begin to produce shade? A new grove in the Park will not help us standing on the sidewalk. But I know every tree counts and thank the nice folks for donating the trees to the park. I do hope that the urban forestry folks will oversee some of the cities projects. Folks seem quick to be cutting, killing and sterilizing.
While we are at it let us all pray to the great goddess of the wood that whoever was involved in the building of “Bank Grove” will never ever again have anything to do with trees. As we all know in this area they buried some of the oaks way up their trunks with soil and killed them all. These folks shouldn’t even be allowed to shovel cow dung never mind work with anything living.
Maybe you could check out this one. Take a look at “bank grove” and tell us Kerri did they fill in the top ruts with upside down sod or did they use old carpet?
Sorry to be so off subject.