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Qld Arbor Day
Awards - 2nd Prize!
Posted 03/11/08
Today 3 of us attended the Arbor Day Awards
Luncheon. What a great venue…..Riverglen, a
new convention building set amongst the
trees in Indooroopilly. The foyer was
decorated with pictures of various groups
doing a number of great things in the
environment. We were lucky enough to be
amongst them and took 2nd prize in the
Community Groups category, for which we
received a lovely award in an elegant frame.
Ross McKinnon was the main speaker and was
marvellous as usual. After 17 awards
were handed out, we had a fantastic lunch
and exchanged a few ideas with other tree
lovers.
Cheers,
Fran Gilje
President, Men of the Trees
Qld Arbor Day
Awards Nomination
Posted 29/09/08
MOTT (Qld) was recently nominated in the
Community Groups category of the
11th Queensland Arbor Day Awards and is
now one of three
finalists in this category! Read
our
nomination here. Winners will be
announced on 14 October, 2008.
We would also like to thank Laura Simmons
for our nomination, who compiled the above
submission. Laura has worked as
Volunteer Coordinator for Greening Australia
and as Volunteer Program Officer for Habitat
Brisbane. In both jobs she worked closely
with the MOTT planting group. Thanks
for that Laura!
 A Letter from our President: National Tree
Day
Posted 28/07/08
Dear MOTT and Friends of MOTT,
Our National Tree Day effort was a true
celebration of people working together with
a common purpose. We are so appreciative of
all the things you did to make it a success.
Some of you brought members of your group
together to plant, mulch and water 1600
trees. Others bought/prepared food and drink
to keep us going. Still others supplied us
with tools or space in their cars and trucks
for carting our tables, Bar B Q, signs etc.
The message about our tree day was willingly
advertised by KBCB News, Northwest News ,
Pete Rudder-radio and Jess, our own website
operator.
So much work was done in preparation: people
making signs, pumping water from the creek
and Habitat Brisbane walking through sites
with us and organizing mulch and water.
Thanks to all 122 of you who participated in
the day. Please thank your friends,
organizations and families who joined us
too…… a special thanks too, to the designers
of our new MOTT brochures, membership forms
and project records.
Let’s meet again at the same time next year.
Warmest wishes,
Fran Gilje
President, Men of the Trees
National Tree Day - Saturday 26 July, 2008
Posted 25/04/08
National Tree Day is Australia's biggest
community tree-planting event and is
co-ordinated by
Planet Ark. Since Tree Day started
in 1996 more than 1.5 million volunteers
have planted over 11.5 million native trees
and shrubs! MOTT will once again be
running a tree planting site for this
important event and further details will be
available soon. Visit the Planet Ark
website for more information about
National Tree Day.
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