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<h2 style="font-size: 200%;">FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE</h2>
<p style="font-size: 120%; margin-top: -5px; font-weight:bold;">April 3, 2017</p>
<p style="float:right; font-weight:bold; margin-bottom: 75px; font-size: 120%; text-align:right;">CONTACT: David Dittmer
<br />573.874.7520</p>
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<div style="font-size: 110%; line-height:200%;"><h3 style="clear:both; margin-top: 75px; margin-bottom: 10px; font-weight: bold; font-size: 170%;">Arbor Day Tree Giveaway will be held Saturday, April 8</h3>
<div class="content"><span style="padding-left: 50px;">(COLUMBIA, MO)</span> - <p style="display:inline;">City of Columbia TreeKeeper volunteers and Columbia Parks & Recreation will be honoring Arbor Day with a tree giveaway this Saturday, April 8. More than 1,100 bare-root seedlings will be given away beginning at 8:00 a.m. at the parking lot of the ARC, 1701 West Ash St. The giveaway will continue until all trees are gone.</p>
<p>TreeKeeper volunteers and Parks & Recreation Department forestry staff will be on hand to distribute the seedlings to the public and answer tree questions. Twenty species will be available including Flowering Dogwood, Pecan, Redbud, Sycamore, River Birch, Serviceberry and White Fringetree. Members of the public may take two trees of different species.</p>
<p>TreeKeeper volunteers participate in a course on tree identification, planting, pruning and other management topics and are then asked to volunteer on tree projects in Columbia's city parks and along trails and right of way. </p>
<p>To find out more about the tree giveaway or volunteering with the City of Columbia, call Volunteer Programs at 573.874.7499 or visit <a href="http://www.CoMo.gov">www.CoMo.gov</a>.</p></div>
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<div class="content"><strong>Location:</strong> <a href="https://gis.gocolumbiamo.com/CityView/?find=1701 Ash. St." target="_blank">1701 Ash. St.</a></div>
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