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For more information on the city’s sustainability initiatives, visit www.charlottetown.ca/sustainablecity.php.
This year, three certified sustainable businesses in the city joined McInnes Cooper in challenge, including Buns and Things Bakery, Howatt’s Enviro Paints and Invesco.
Volunteers from the three businesses, along with city staff, planted the trees at Upton Farmlands, adding to the existing Confederation Forest initiated in 2014 by the Macphail Woods Ecological Forestry Project.
Charlottetown Mayor Clifford Lee said the effort of all four companies is a testament to how much they care about their community and how concerned they are about giving back.
The city used an equation cited by Conservatree.org to calculate the approximate number of trees needed to provide the amount of paper each participating business uses in a typical year. The equation is based on one tree producing 8,333 sheets of paper.
The participating businesses covered the cost of their trees, which are all P.E.I. native species ordered from the J. Frank Gaudet Nursery.
UPEI’s athletics and recreation department is looking for nominations for the school’s sports hall of fame.
The deadline for nominations is June 23. The UPEI Sports Hall of Fame recognizes people who made significant contributions to the athletics programs at UPEI, Saint Dunstan’s University or Prince of Wales College.
Individual athletes, teams and builders will be inducted Nov. 9. The hall, in co-operation with the university’s archives, is also accepting donations of sports memorabilia related to the school on a year-round basis. To make a nomination or discuss donations, contact Ron Annear at 902-566-0991, annear@upei.ca or http://gopanthersgo.ca/panther_zone/ hall-of-fame/hall_of_fame.