April 02, 2007
Bowling
Green, Ky. - In celebration of National Arbor Day, free pine seedlings will be given away on April 27 by the Public Broadcasting Service of Western Kentucky University, the Bowling Green Daily News and 12 McDonald’s locations in Kentucky and northern Tennessee.
Trees conserve energy, beautify neighborhoods and bring songbirds close by. Trees also clean the air, help keep the atmosphere in balance and improve property values.
Planting and care instructions will be printed on the bags that contain the pine seedlings. More than 8,500 seedlings will be distributed at McDonald’s in Bowling Green, Franklin, Scottsville, Smiths Grove, and Portland, Tenn. Everyone is encouraged to stop in and get a seedling free of charge while supplies last.
Volunteers are needed to prepare the trees for the giveaway. Those wishing to help bag the trees on April 25 can call Western’s Public Broadcasting at (800) 599-9598.
In addition to the Arbor Day giveaway, area elementary schools were asked to nominate themselves to be selected as a Treeriffic School. The school selected will receive 500+ free seedlings to distribute to students at the school. The winning school will be announced in mid-April.
This is the 17th consecutive year of the joint project between the locally-owned McDonald’s, Western’s Public Broadcasting Service and the Daily News. Western’s Public Broadcasting stations include WKYU-FM in Bowling Green, WDCL-FM in Somerset, WKPB-FM in Henderson/Owensboro, WKUE-FM in Elizabethtown and WKYU-PBS Channel 24/DT 24-1 in Bowling Green.
More WKU news is available at www.wku.edu. If you’d like to receive WKU news via e-mail, send a message to WKUNews@wku.edu.
For more information, contact Terry Reagan, (270) 745-6488.
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