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<p style="font-size: 120%; margin-top: -5px; font-weight:bold;">March 17, 2021</p>
<p style="float:right; font-weight:bold; margin-bottom: 25px; font-size: 100%; text-align:right;">CONTACT: Tammy Miller
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<div style="font-size: 110%; line-height:150%;"><h1 style="clear:both; margin-top: 75px; margin-bottom: 10px; font-weight: bold; font-size: 130%;">Arbor Day drive-through tree giveaway planned</h1>
<div class="content"><span style="padding-left: 50px;">(COLUMBIA, MO)</span> - <p style="display:inline;">Columbia Parks and Recreation and the TreeKeepers volunteer group is planning a drive-through style Arbor Day tree giveaway.</p>
<p>The giveaway will be held Saturday, April 3, starting at 8 a.m. and lasting until seedlings are gone. Trees will be distributed at the Rainbow Softball Center parking lot at Cosmo Park, 1615 Business Loop 70 W.</p>
<p>Visitors should enter the park through the main entrance off Business Loop 70. They will be able to drive through the lot, view the options on a menu board, place their tree order with staff and then receive their trees without leaving their vehicles. Two trees per person will be distributed. Trees available include:</p>
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<li>Buttonbush</li>
<li>Bald cypress</li>
<li>Black cherry</li>
<li>Black chokeberry</li>
<li>Blackberry</li>
<li>Blackhaw</li>
<li>Bur oak</li>
<li>Deciduous holly</li>
<li>Hazelnut</li>
<li>Ninebark</li>
<li>Pawpaw</li>
<li>Pecan</li>
<li>Persimmon</li>
<li>Redbud</li>
<li>River birch</li>
<li>Serviceberry</li>
<li>Shortleaf pine</li>
<li>Swamp white oak</li>
<li>Sycamore</li>
<li>Tulip poplar</li>
<li>Witch hazel</li>
<li>Wild plum</li>
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<p>Columbia holds Arbor Day events each year as part of their designation as a Tree City USA, a recognition bestowed by the National Arbor Day Foundation to honor the City’s commitment to a forestry program. Columbia has met all four standards to be a Tree City USA: a tree board or department, a tree care ordinance, a comprehensive community forestry program and an Arbor Day observance.</p>
<p>For more information about the tree giveaway, call Parks and Recreation at 573.874.7460.</p></div>
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