NATIONAL BEAUTIFICATION DAY

                                           IT'S NATIONAL BEAUTIFICATION DAY

This year we celebrate National Beautification Day June 26th, 2019. This is the day that communities and schools gather volunteers to plant trees, plants and flowers to beautify parks and school grounds in their city.It is a great way for people to meet each other, make friends, and get to know their community. I myself have volunteered to do this a few years in a row with my son during his cub scouts. My son and I had a lot of fun and I even learned a few things about planting, we also got the satisfaction of knowing that the trees in our near by park  are there because of us! We had bonds with the group of people we worked with and sense of contribution to our community.

Fun Facts:

- Beautification:is the process of making visual improvements to a town, city, or urban area. This most often involves planting trees, shrubbery, and other greenery, but frequently also includes adding decorative or historic-style street lights and other lighting and replacing broken pavement, often with brick or other natural materials. Old-fashioned cobblestones are sometimes used for crosswalks; they provide the additional benefit of slowing motorists.

- The Laurel Hill Association of Stockbridge, Massachusetts, founded in 1853, is the oldest incorporated village beautification society in the United States. The Memphis City Beautiful Commission, the oldest city beautification project in the United States, was established in 1930.

- Beautification projects are often undertaken by city councils to refurbish their downtown areas, in order to boost tourism or other commerce. Often, this is also spurred by broken sidewalks, which pose a safety hazard for pedestrians and potentially insurmountable obstacles for wheelchair users. These projects are frequently part of other larger projects such as construction, especially in conjunction with ones for transit, such as streets and roads and mass transit.

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