With help from the City Forester, his daughter Olive, and RNeighbors board member Bob Sixta, this neighborhood family proudly planted the first of 101 trees. They will come back on Saturday to help plant the other 100 trees. The evening of Wednesday, September 24, RNeighbors canvassed the neighborhood on Homestead Village Lane SE, letting them all know about a community tree planting going on in their neighborhood. Armed with colorful door hanging literature (compliments of Alliance for Community Trees) volunteers…

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The 2008 Fall Citizen Forester class enjoyed a lovely fall morning of tree information and completed the class by planting a tree in Quarry Hill’s front yard. Citizen Forester Workshop Saturday, September 20, 8 am-noon, at Quarry Hill Nature Center An energetic class of 15 came out early on Saturday, September 20, for a packed morning of tree information and ended it with planting a tree in the front yard at Quarry Hill Nature Center. Jacob Ryg, Rochester City Forester…

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Uniting Americans In common cause. Tackling Our greatest social challenges. Citizens giving back to community and country. RNeighborWoods has joined in a national campaign to encourage citizen service in our country and our neighborhoods. Please check out our September 27, 2008, fall community tree planting event on the Service Nation website with additional information on the RNeighbors website. Service Nation is building a national movement to inspire a new era of citizen service in America. ServiceNation is a campaign by…

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Submitted by Rene Jones Lafflam on Mon, 2008-09-08 13:15. Trees make good neighbors.Since 2006, the RNeighborWoods group has planted 200 seedlings and 718 ball-in-burlap trees in Rochester. This fall the City of Rochester and RNeighbors is offering a grant for a winning neighborhood to receive free boulevard trees. Announcing the RNeighborWoods Tree Grant! We have 30 trees that will all be planted in a deserving neighborhood by the neighbors! Tell us your story and make a case for why your…

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Submitted by Rene Jones Lafflam on Thu, 2008-05-15 10:27. Led by Crystal, this group from Community Corrections worked hard all day. Their leader and the corrections program strives to engage and empower these youth and planting trees is one step in a positive direction! At the RNeighborWoods planting on April 26th, 2008, over 140 volunteers showed up on a cold and snowy morning to help plant 100 trees in the Northern Addition Neighborhood. As an interesting side note, this neighborhood…

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Submitted by Rene Jones Lafflam on Thu, 2008-02-28 14:03. In all Badger Ridge planted 56 trees in their neighborhood this fall. Announcing the RNeighborWoods Tree Grant!Trees make good neighbors. Since 2006, the RNeighborWoods group has planted 200 seedlings and 588 ball-in-burlap trees in Rochester. For the second time, the City of Rochester and RNeighbors is offering a grant for a winning neighborhood to receive free boulevard trees. We have 30 trees that will all be planted in deserving neighborhoods. Tell…

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Submitted by Rene Jones Lafflam on Tue, 2007-11-06 22:38. Planters from the Willow Creek after school program.There was green everywhere on Saturday, October 27, 2007. Green T-shirts, green trees, green thumbs, and even green wood chip buckets. As part of national NeighborWoods Month, school and service groups, neighbors, families, RNeighborWoods partners, Rochester volunteers, and Citizen Foresters showed up in-force to plant 100 trees on Marion Road. Planters were greeted by RNeighbors board members and friends. They were supplied with refreshments…

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Submitted by Rene Jones Lafflam on Thu, 2007-10-18 13:21. All ages of Folwell neighbors came out to plant their trees. Have you ever taken the time to appreciate a tree-lined street? Four Rochester neighborhoods will now be able to enjoy leafy boulevards next spring, thanks to recent tree plantings in Rochester.As part National NeighborWoods month, RNeighborWoods offered a Neighborhood Tree Grant for winning neighborhoods to receive free boulevard trees. Since 2006, the RNeighborWoods group has planted 200 seedlings and 444…

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Submitted by Rene Jones Lafflam on Tue, 2007-10-16 17:55. RNeighborWoods held a Citizen Forestry class on Saturday October 13, 2007, at the Quarry Hill Nature Center.The class of both youth and adults were treated to an afternoon filled with education, information, and even entertainment. Those in attendance, were instructed as to proper tree planting steps, correct methods of branch pruning, varieties suitable for the Southern MN area, and follow-up tree care including watering, mulching and staking when necessary. A beautiful…

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Submitted by Rene Jones Lafflam on Thu, 2007-09-13 10:04. Trees make good neighbors.Since 2006, the RNeighborWoods group has planted 200 seedlings and 338 ball-in-burlap trees in Rochester. This fall the City of Rochester and RNeighbors is offering a grant for winning neighborhood(s) to receive free boulevard trees. Announcing the RNeighborWoods Tree Grant! We have 30 trees that will all be planted in deserving neighborhoods. Tell us your story and make a case for why your neighborhood is deserving of this…

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