Date: Sat Oct 07, 8:30 AM EST - Sat Oct 07, 5:00 PM EST
Category:
- Community Service
Level:
- Juniors,
- Daisies,
- Seniors,
- Volunteers,
- Cadettes,
- Ambassadors,
- Brownies,
- Pre-K
Date and time
Saturday, October 7 8:30am - 2pm EDT
Location
Richard M. Nixon County Park
5922 Nixon Drive
York, PA
About this event
- 5 hours 30 minutes
- Mobile eTicket
Plant Trees with Girl
Are you a former Girl Scout, current Girl Scout, a Lifetime Member of Girl Scouts, or simply passionate about making a difference in your community?
Join Girl Scouts in the Heart of Pennsylvania (GSHPA) as we put the Girl Scout Law into practice and use resources wisely at a tree planting event.
We need your help to plant 700 trees donated by Chesapeake Bay Foundation on a site to be determined in York county on Saturday, Oct. 7. Working with Girl Scout Lifetime Member Shelly Riedel. The Check-in will be at 8:30 a.m. followed by a meeting to give directions and set up planting teams. Planting will start at 9am and we will work till 2 p.m. Bring your lunch because we will break at noon to eat. This event is open to all current Girl Scouts and alumnae as well as members of the community.
Come with a friend, by yourself or with your troop for this all-ages event. It will be held rain or shine. Join us on Oct. 7 and together, we can make the world a better place.
It's free to register- sign up to help today!
Details of directions and parking will be provided two weeks prior to the event. Please have with you the following items, work gloves and appropriate shoes. If you have your own dibble- shovels - regular and drain spade (a long narrow blade used to plant flowers), digging iron, sledgehammer or stake pounder, PACKED LUNCH, water bottle for you, empty and clean gallon jugs (from water, milk, food safe). to fill with water for the trees.
Several jobs for volunteers of all ages from chopping up the dirt, cleaning out the hole, putting in the tree, surrounding it with a tubex (protects the young tree), inserting a stake and cap to keep the tubex on, and pounding in the stake to hold the tubex.