65 year old Larry Wheaton will be laid to rest later today in city where she’s from in South.
And this March local, ten
launched an exciting
environmental project called
Green Street. A long Time Coming
Full Circle Project. The mission
is to plant trees in
under-resourced neighborhoods
and increase the tree canopy all
across South Florida. Local
times. Glenna milberg is joining
us once again this morning live
from. A place very near and dear
to local hard the site of our
six in green street effort. Good
morning, glenna. Granny plateau
park. It is a full circle
moment, as you said. I love
that. I’m going to be using that
all morning because we at Local
ten really took the ball. This
was not a park at all. Planted
it, threw it out there. Got so
much great response from
Miami-Dade parks and also so
many community organizations to
help build what is now a
beautiful park in. This
neighborhood right off the
Granny Express way, a really
well-established neighborhood
with lots of families but you’re
looking at right now is the
county giving away literally
giving away 250 trees for people
take home and plant in own
spaces and really add the
county’s tree canopy. But wait,
there’s more because the hard
work is underway, it looks like
a little conversation scenes are
happening here. But there was
really hard work. We’re planting
300 trees here in Granny Flat
Park. You look around the
perimeter, those are freshly
planted trees. Local ten is out
here very Cadillac, Buick,
Hummer, GMC is out here. We have
Miami-Dade parks out here.
Everybody really working hard to
get these trees planted and
really add to that tree. And
this is as mentioned, I think,
Alexandra, the second of our
Green Street project at Local
ten, the Green Street Initiative
, which is right along the same
lines as trees in the county. So
good for the environment. So for
people. And with this heat,
who’s good on this day so, let
me sort of take you back and,
show you what this green street
is all about. It’s a simple
concept with a lofty goal and
know the trees are one of the
Earth’s greatest natural
resources. Local tans, green
Campaign Envisions More in more
vulnerable Florida neighborhoods
. It’s huge because we as a
county can’t do it alone. This
is a really big undertaking and
we need residents and, community
members. But as we back in
March, at our first tree
planting event, takes big
commitment from an even bigger
community to develop a greener
South Florida. Our goal is that
we have 30% tree canopy in every
single neighborhood. The way to
do it is one neighborhood and
one tree at a time. With the
help of the people from Zero
Cadillac, Buick, GMC, we’re just
very happy to back to the
community and at the same time
the environment. We kicked off
Green Street at Lake Stevens
Park near Miami Gardens,
planting six native trees of
five different species. We also
gave away. 125 fruit trees to
area residents. This is
wonderful. Trees cool.
Temperatures improve, air
quality attract wildlife prevent
excess. Flooding promote
equitable green spaces create
beautiful lands. Now, in
September, we’re it again. This
time at Granny Plateau Park,
where set to install just over
300 trees and plants and give
away 250 shade and fruit trees.
And the planting underway. And
we have so many colleagues
Kristie, Betty, we are out here
working so hard. You think just
on television. Oh No, no. Yeah.
Hot, easy, easy. Betty Davis,
Christy Kruger, out here, 30 of
us are out here along with Vera
Cadillac Buick, GMC Hummer along
with Miami-Dade Parks and Rec, a
granny park planting is. The
giveaway underway. Those not
only shade trees, but trees,
too. I think we have we have
some left. We Do. If you wanted
to come by Granny Plateau Park.
If you need a tree, if you want
to be part of this. Absolutely.
Come down. You can see how
important is. And most important
of all, Alex, Andrew, this is
building community. We are nine
years, ten years into this, we
all look the same and we’re
going to keep going and we’re
going to be here till noon or
until all these trees are
whichever comes first. I’m going
to guess noon is not going to be
the first you. This Is something
that will last for generations
and don’t think we didn’t see
you putting the big boss to work
out there. All right. Good for
you. Get his hands dirty. You
know? Sometimes you just got to
take charge. Oh, Galina we thank
you so much. And, you know, for
all our viewers watching, you
know, our broadcast ends at
1030. But we have all of these
details on our Web site, local
ted.com to kind of follow the
story because it truly is
fascinating from start to where