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Show ! WANTED: MORE TREES REMOVED With the passing of April and spring planting season, the attention of citizens is attracted to the deplorable de-plorable condition of our grade school grounds. It has been brought to our attention this week that the initial step which must be taken before the ! grounds are landscaped, is the removal of trees. This : would have been done last year, but according to re- 1 port, workmen were not available. Now Nebo school ; district board members have signified their intention of improving the grounds and have asked the city to do the work, which will be paid for with school funds. I However, city crews are busy on other work at pres ent, but plans are to remove the-trees as soon as possible. possi-ble. In the meantime, time slips by, and before one realizes boys and girls on these school grounds will again be wading ankle-deep in mud, with no other place to play. , The city has, no doubt, been busy this spring with the tree-removing program, and scores of trees which have impaired the power service or the safety of citizens, citi-zens, have been ' removed and rightly so. But the trees which are holding back the improvement of our school grounds are still standing. The appearance of our grade school grounds are not complimentary to a city called "The Art City," and if removal of a few trees is holding back the improvement job, surely they should be removed immediately. It has been some years now' since a movement began to have the school grounds landscaped, and each year for one cause or another the work is postponed. post-poned. The front yards of schools in neighboring cities are attractive with lawns, shrubs and flowers. Is there any reason why Springville, "the art city," should not have the same? Now is a most favorable time to get the work done and when our school board member reports that the work will go ahead as soon as the trees are re- i moved, the city should use every means to pull them out at the earliest possible date. |
