Springing into action for National Tree Week 2021!
COVID-19 meant that National Tree Week had to be celebrated very differently across Ireland this year but that didn’t deter Dromiskin Tidy Towns finding a way to honour this important environmental initiative and promote the special role trees play in our landscape and in our communities.
A uniquely designed Tree Book in the Heritage Park, funded a couple of years ago under the Tidy Towns Project Grant Scheme, operated annually by Louth County Council, proved to be the catalyst for a very successful online Tree Quiz that attracted a high number of entries. The challenge was set to the young people of the community to visit the Heritage Park, with their families, and flick through the book to research the answers to the eight quiz questions all of which focused on the various species of trees planted in the Park and included some ‘Fun Heritage Facts’ to keep everybody interested and amused while delivering increased awareness of and appreciation for trees in the local community.
Not everybody got all the questions right but everybody did really well and of the 22 entries that scored full marks a raffle resulted in eight Easter Eggs being presented to the lucky winners in the Heritage Park which was bursting with Spring colour for the occasion. Congratulations to Oliver Phillips, Catherine Carey, Deirbhile & Caoimhe Morgan, Emily O’Reilly, Lee Smyth, Dillon Sharkey and Leah Berrill who all have an extra treat for Easter Sunday as a result of their support for the initiative.
Formal Tree Planting Ceremonies couldn’t proceed as usual but the Committee also recognised the need to increase trees in the local landscape and collaborated with Clermiskin Construction Ltd, by donating its allocation of sapling trees to the locally based company, that is currently at an advanced stage of developing Phase 2 of Rath Na Gloine Housing Estate which is sited within the Tidy Towns adjudication area - a Win Win for the estate and for the village.