Clean, Green, Beautiful and its partners are celebrating North Bay’s centennial by helping efforts to grow the city’s tree canopy.
Three trees were planted in Leger Square outside City Hall on Wednesday morning.
They include two red maples and one sugar maple to replace the ash trees that were previously damaged by the Emerald Ash Borer.
Harriet Madigan, chair of CBG North Bay, says it takes a community of people and partners to beautify the city.
“The parks, the sculptures, the public art. All of these things come together to create spaces where people feel like they belong and its safe, that they have a purpose, that they can be part of something bigger than themselves.”
Residents are also being encouraged to plant trees.
“A tree does so much more and never asks for anything back other than a little water,” Madigan says. “It can offer you shade, food and beauty. Just a clean, green, and beautiful idea. Plant a tree.”
Mayor Peter Chirico says several other mayors, here for the Federation of Northern Ontario Municipalities conference a couple of weeks ago, were envious of what’s being done to beautify the city and were asking what the formula is.
“It’s our volunteers. It’s Clean, Green, Beautiful. It’s participation by our community and it’s making our community special,” he says.
