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MLK Day in East Palo Alto

by Text: R.R. Photos: Jack Owicki
MLK Jr. Day was established as a federal holiday in 1983; Congress designated it a National Day of Service in 1994. For the fourth year in a row, volunteers came together to plant trees in East Palo Alto. They started out in Martin Luther King Park on Daisy Lane.
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On Martin Luther King Jr. Day, approximately 200 volunteers spent the morning spreading mulch, removing debris and planting trees in East Palo Alto. Environmental group Canopy provided the trees, emphasizing native flora. Young and old came together to plant the trees near the Bay Trail by San Francisquito Creek, where there has been flood protection work. Volunteer workers prepared another site for a potential fruit tree orchard.

Small groups worked together to work at the end of O'Connor Street, on Verbena Drive near Abelia Way, and the end of Daphne Way. At the end of the morning three truckloads of debris were removed and all came together for a group photo.

Mayor Lisa Gauthier was on hand to speak to the volunteers then wielded a shovel. In addition to non-profit Canopy, habitat-restoration organization Grassroots Ecology, the San Francisquito Joint Powers Authority, and the City of East Palo Alto supported the volunteers' labor.
§Canopy Team Leader
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§Canopy Vests Are Bright Yellow
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§Getting name tags
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§This kid likes to dig in the dirt!
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§youth volunteers
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§youth volunteers
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§This is what success looks like
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Happy faces as a new tree stands tall
§Gardening Gloves
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§On the berm
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§By a fence
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§Working hard
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§Mayor Lisa Gauthier
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§Lisa G. in the center of things smiling
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§Shoveling
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§Group so large...not everyone could fit in
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