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Regreen Springfield will celebrate the Spring season and acknowledge the work of the organization's community volunteers and partners, who have helped to regreen the city… one tree at a time, by holding a "May ReGreen Springfield Fundraising Gala". The event will be held on Wednesday, May 20, 2015 at the Barney Carriage House in Springfield's Forest Park, from 6:00 - 8:00 PM. The Gala is planned to help fund the Regreen Springfield's Summer Youth Intern Program and its 2015 Tree Planting initiatives.

On Tuesday, January 25th, students from Cathedral High School will join Regreen Springfield and the City of Springfield Parks Department in restoring native vegetation to the woodlands around Quarry Pond in Sixteen Acres, which was heavily impacted by the June 2011 tornado. New trees were planted by community volunteers, and the City, following the storm event, but undesirable vegetation now threatens to overtake the new trees and shrubs that were planted.

The newest class of police officers in Springfield, Massachusetts, who will receive their badges later this month, will be working to regreen two inner-city parks, as well as planting new trees in front of several neighborhood residences in an effort to help regreen the city. Hennessy Park and Adams Playground in the Mason Square and Upper Hill Neighborhoods of Springfield will be the site of the park clean-up and tree planting on Saturday, October 11th. Starting at 9:00 AM, 29 graduating recruits will begin planting new Sweetgum, Ginko, and flowering trees at both parks, as well as in front of residences on Kenyon Street. The work is expected to continue into early afternoon.

On October 4, 2104 volunteers from Regreen Springfield, a non-profit tree advocacy group in Springfield, Massachusetts, planted new trees in Springfield Cemetery, a historic landscape located in Springfield. The planting is part of an effort to help restore the tree canopy in the cemetery decimated by storm events in 2011, including an EF-3 tornado and early winter snow storm. The new trees, which are the same species of trees originally planted along Cemetery Lane, the main entry to the site, offer spectacular color in the spring, summer shade and vibrant spring color.

Regreen Springfield, Inc., which aims to improve the urban forest of Springfield, Massachusetts, has planned a tree pruning event on Saturday, August 16, 2014. The "Tree Pruning Happening" will provide tree maintenance on public trees in two of Springfield's neighborhoods that were impacted by the June 2011 Tornado, which ravaged the city. Members of the Regreen Springfield Tree Tenders will provide instruction to those who have not yet completed the pruning workshops offered by Regreen Springfield, and tools will be provided for those who do not have hand pruners or pruning saws. Prior tree maintenance experience is not needed to participate in this event.

Volunteers are being sought by Regreen Springfield to assist in tree planting and maintenance efforts in Springfield's neighborhoods, planned for this Spring and early Summer. As part of this initiative, community residents will receive technical instruction on how to plant and care for trees, as part of an effort to improve the tree canopy cover across the city. Over 4,000 new trees have been planted in response to the June 2011 tornado, and additional trees will be planted throughout this year, with many being planted by community residents and volunteers.