Tree Canada presents Green Streets grants at OFGAC meeting

At the 22 October 2007 OFGAC meeting, Mike Rosen, president of Tree Canada, announced that Ottawa is now a Green Streets Canada community.

Green Streets Canada is flagship program of the Tree Canada Foundation. Its purpose is to encourage innovative best management practices and policies in municipal forest management.

Tree Canada, in collaboration with Tree Ontario’s President and CEO Mike Scott, were here to award $37,660 to three community groups to plant trees at Cardinal Creek in Orléans, the Monaghan Storm Water Pond and Shae Road and Abbott Street.

Shad Qadri, Councillor for Sittsville-Kanata West, Peggy Feltmate, Councillor for Kanata South and Conseiller Bob Monette d’Orléans were also on hand to congratulate the community representatives.

Photo, above right: Mike Rosen, president of Tree Canada, reads from the certificate presented to the city naming it a Green Streets Canada city while councillors Bob Monette, Shad Qadri, and Peggy Feltmate look on.

Above, left to right: Tom Wright from Friends of Jock River, councillors Bob Monette, Shad Qadri, and Peggy Feltmate, Mike Rosen and Mike Scott of Tree Canada, and OFGAC's Iola Price

More about the Green Streets program