Arborists, SDG&E Join to Spruce Up Girl Scout Headquarters for Arbor Day
SAN DIEGO (April 30) BUSINESS WIRE -April 30, 1999--The Professional Tree
Care Association of San Diego (PTCA) and San Diego Gas & Electric
(SDG&E) are celebrating national Arbor Day by sprucing up Girl Scout
headquarters in Balboa Park. The workers will be joined by members of
Brownie Troop 3496, who will plant ash trees at the site.
"Trees are a vital component of the city's infrastructure. Sustaining a
healthy urban forest includes properly pruning and caring for existing
trees and planting new ones," said Paul Rider, president of the
Professional Tree Care Association, which organized the event. "This
pruning and planting on national Arbor Day helps to focus our attention
on what we need to do to sustain a vital urban forest." The city of San
Diego's urban forester, Drew Potocki, supports these activities on an
ongoing basis.
San Diego Gas & Electric, which supplied about 75 trees for planting in
Clairemont Mesa this morning, also donated the ash trees being planted
at the Girl Scout headquarters by 8-year-old Brownies.
"Trees give us beauty, oxygen and shade -- and they also help us
conserve energy -- when they are planted in the right place," said
Steve Allman, director of Construction Services for SDG&E. "We're
donating and helping plant these trees because a beautiful community is
important to us all."
SDG&E maintains an ongoing tree-trimming and tree-replacement program
to ensure that power lines are undisturbed by foliage growth.
The plantings commemorate Arbor Day, first held in Nebraska in 1872.
Today, Arbor Day is celebrated nationwide, most commonly on the last
Friday in April.
A dozen member firms of the Professional Tree Care Association are
supplying about 35 workers and eight vehicles to trim the pine,
melaleuca and eucalyptus trees at the Girl Scout offices in Balboa
Park. The services are worth an estimated $12,000. The firms include
Arbor Care, Artistic Pruning, Atlas Environmental Services, Aztec
Landscape, Homestead Tree Service, Mariposa Tree Service, Pacific Tree
Service, Tierra del Verde, Tree Barber Enterprises, Tree of Life Tree
Service, Western Tree Service and United Tree Service.
Begun in 1985, the Professional Tree Care Association is made up of
commercial arborists, horticulturists, vendors of tree-care products
and services, professional and municipal affiliations, as well as
individuals interested in trees. The group's mission is to improve the
community's quality of life by making the San Diego urban forest safer
and more beautiful through education and proper tree care.
SDG&E is a public utility that provides service to 3 million consumers
through 1.2 million electric meters and 720,000 natural gas meters in
San Diego and southern Orange counties. SDG&E is a subsidiary of Sempra
Energy (NYSE:SRE), a Fortune 500 energy services holding company based
in San Diego.
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CONTACT: SDG&E
Ed Van Herik, 877/866-2066
www.sdge.com
or
Professional Tree Care Association
Paul Rider, 619/607-2578
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