Ecumenical Service to Dedicate Trees in Two Creeks Memorial Grove

Nine trees will be dedicated Sept. 18 during the annual Two Creeks Conservation Area Memorial Sunday service.

Native species planted in the Memorial Grove include sugar maples, tulip trees, red maples, Kentucky coffee trees and cucumber magnolias.

Anyone can attend the ecumenical service, held under the pavilion, which will feature inspirational music by well-known area singer-songwriter and recording artist Nicole Barron (www.nicolebarron.com).

Names of those for whom the trees are planted are read aloud.

The grove commemorates important events and people in the lives of residents, and helps with the reforestation of the conservation area by planting native Carolinian tree species (www.carolinian.org/index.htm).

Some 70 trees have been planted in the last seven years.

Marjan Willett, who co-ordinates the program, said more trees need to be planted everywhere, and Two Creeks provides: "yourself, our community and future generations with a beautiful and useful Memorial Grove. Furthermore, trees generate clean air, provide climate control and watershed management and are a haven for wildlife.

"And last but not least, trees are beautiful."