A group of tree-minded citizens helped celebrate Benicia’s first Heritage Tree. By JB Davis A small group of tree enthusiasts congregated at City Park Saturday morning, May 21 to help commemorate the city’s first Heritage Tree. Wolfram Alderson, Executive Director of the Benicia Tree Foundation, spoke briefly about the tree, a California Live Oak estimated […]
Benicians were invited to honor and celebrate Benicia’s First Heritage Tree with a community-wide photo opportunity that took place on Saturday, May 21, 2011 at 9am. Participants were asked to show up at 9am (sharp) at Benicia’s First Heritage Tree which is located in Jensen Park near the intersection of W. 2nd Street and W. […]
By Donna Beth Weilenman, Staff Reporter, Benicia Herald Last month, vandals chopped through most of the 20 young tulip trees that had been planted at Southampton Park with the help of Interact Club members of Benicia High School last October. Tuesday afternoon, members of Girl Scout Troop 20639 helped plant the first of a batch of […]
By David Ryan Palmer, Assistant Editor Tree lovers, a heads-up: Saturday is your chance to help plant 80 trees on the Benicia High School campus, and help out the environment a whole bunch by doing so. The Benicia Tree Foundation, headed by Wolfram Alderson, will plant California live oak, incense cedar and Theodore cedar at the […]
By Donna Beth Weilenman, Staff Reporter for the Benicia Herald Benicia has been recognized as a Tree City USA for the third time and has been given a Growth Award for its second consecutive year, Mario Giuliani of the Office of the Director, Parks and Community Services Department, said this week. The announcement came a little […]
By Donna Beth Weilenman, Staff Reporter The reward for information leading to the identification and arrest of the person who killed 18 city-owned tulip trees has been increased, a city official said Monday. Mario Giuliani of the Office of the Director of Parks and Community Services Department, said the reward has been upped from $500 to $750 with […]
By Judith Donaldson EVEN THE RAIN DOESN’T DEPRESS ME me here in Benicia. I lived most of my life in the Northeast, where shoveling snow, scraping ice and yanking galoshes (remember those?) on and off formed the inevitable basics of my winter way of life. No thanks, no more, I decided one day two years […]
