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Show Garden Club plants crab apple tree in honor of ex-pres. Beatrice Stewart L1"8 "Pedal Arbor Day ceremony g ay night, the Pleasant Grove Garden Club planted a tree in Battlecreek Park in honor of for- raw president, Beatrice Stewart. IL year the Garden Club U reeonArbor Day inhonor ' ??,club member or other citi-. citi-. n of the community. Jul r,p,ro6ram included a prayer !rtJaMa,! Christiansen, remarks iUn!W by Kelly Allen, and a JjAetch of Beatrice by 1 1 pafv!1H'und Superintendent of n and creation for the city, assisted in planting the tree, a flowering crab apple called Profusion. Profu-sion. In the mayor's remarks, he said that he would like Pleasant Grove to have an Urban Forest Program similar to that of Los Angeles and Salt Lake City. He noted that since the city's name is from a grove of trees that used to be located near where the Grove Ward now stands, the city has a particular interest in trees. He said that they not only beautify beau-tify but they aid the environment by using carbon dioxide and producing pro-ducing oxygen. Moya related some experiences she remembered from over the years with Beatrice. She mentioned men-tioned that when the Garden Club went to do some planting, Beatrice always looked just like she had stepped from the beauty parlor but she worked just as hard as did the others. She noted that both Beatrice and her husband, Lyle, had contributed con-tributed much over the years to the beautification of the community. The ceremony was under the direction of Mary West. Shirley Millgate is Garden Club president. |
