Free trees will be distributed by the Greater Shawnee Area Chamber of Commerce beautification committee on Saturday, Oct. 31, beginning at 8 a.m. at the Shawnee Municipal Airport. The trees are provided by the Oklahoma Tree Bank Foundation and are funded by the Apache Foundation of Houston.
The trees will be in three or five gallon containers and have been grown on Oklahoma tree farms. The committee ordered 1,000 trees consisting of maples, oaks, redbud, pistache, bald cypress, elms and pines. The exact tree inventory will not be known until delivery. The News-Star will provide information about the types of trees received in Saturday’s paper.
Anyone in the Shawnee area is eligible to receive trees up to a limit of three per household. Master Gardeners will be on site to answer questions about the attributes of the trees that are available.
The tree distribution site is north of the large hangers at the airport, 2200 block of Airport Drive between Franklin Street and University Drive. The entry gate is opposite the OBU softball field.
Nearly 18,000 trees from these foundations were distributed last November and an additional 900 trees were made available in June. Our area is fortunate to receive such generous gifts from the foundations and to have many volunteers who have assisted in unloading the trucks and helping with the tree distribution.
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Free trees will be distributed by the Greater Shawnee Area Chamber of Commerce beautification committee on Saturday, Oct. 31, beginning at 8 a.m. at the Shawnee Municipal Airport. The trees are provided by the Oklahoma Tree Bank Foundation and are funded by the Apache Foundation of Houston.
The trees will be in three or five gallon containers and have been grown on Oklahoma tree farms. The committee ordered 1,000 trees consisting of maples, oaks, redbud, pistache, bald cypress, elms and pines. The exact tree inventory will not be known until delivery. The News-Star will provide information about the types of trees received in Saturday’s paper.
Anyone in the Shawnee area is eligible to receive trees up to a limit of three per household. Master Gardeners will be on site to answer questions about the attributes of the trees that are available.
The tree distribution site is north of the large hangers at the airport, 2200 block of Airport Drive between Franklin Street and University Drive. The entry gate is opposite the OBU softball field.
Nearly 18,000 trees from these foundations were distributed last November and an additional 900 trees were made available in June. Our area is fortunate to receive such generous gifts from the foundations and to have many volunteers who have assisted in unloading the trucks and helping with the tree distribution.
