| ANAHEIM’S TREEPOWER PROGRAM OFFERS
SPRINGTIME COMMUNITY OUTREACH EVENTS
ANAHEIM, CA (March 23, 2006) - A series of community outreach events will inform the public of the benefits of Anaheim’s TreePower Program, an energy-conservation effort that offers free shade trees to homes, schools, churches and small businesses. Residents are invited to any of the events throughout the city from April 1-May 20.
TreePower experts will share advice on a variety of shade trees that best suit different landscapes and will provide shade tree descriptions, literature and photos. Residents can sign up for a free landscape audit, allowing them to receive up to three free shade trees. The landscape audit is designed to help the residents select shade trees that are most suitable for their home’s landscape. Following the audit, TreePower will deliver the trees and planting supplies to the home or organization.
Anaheim’s TreePower Program will be celebrating the planting of its 30,000th tree in April of this year. With these shade trees, air-conditioning costs can be reduced by as much as 10 to 40 percent. At maturity, the trees will save 2 million kWhs (or enough energy to power 320 households for a full year), in addition to removing over 170 tons of carbon dioxide annually.
TreePower Community Outreach Events:
(All events are from 9 a.m.-2 p.m. except as noted.)
April 1, 8 Food 4 Less Supermarket
121 N. Beach Blvd.
April 22 East Anaheim Community Center
8201 E. Santa Ana Canyon Rd.
April 29 Ralphs Supermarket
711 S. Weir Canyon Rd..
May 6 Northgate Supermarket
720 W. La Palma Ave.
May 13 Lowe’s Home Improvement Warehouse
1500 N. Lemon St.
May 20 Haskett Library (12:30-2 p.m.)
2650 W. Broadway
TreePower is a joint effort between the City of Anaheim’s Public Utilities and Community Services Departments. For more information about TreePower and the shade trees, please call 714/491-TREE or visit www.anaheim.net and click Public Utilities under City Departments.
### ABOUT ANAHEIM PUBLIC UTILITIES For more than 100 years, Anaheim Public Utilities has served Anaheim water and electric customers with low rates and reliable service. Anaheim Public Utilities is Orange County's only publicly owned water and electric utility.
ABOUT ANAHEIM The City of Anaheim, founded in 1857, is one of the nation’s premier municipalities and is California’s 10th most populous city. Anaheim covers 50 square miles with more than 345,500 residents and more than 2,100 City employees. The municipal corporation’s annual budget is $1.3 billion. Anaheim supports a thriving business community with companies such as CKE Restaurants, Inc., L-3 Communications, Pacific Sunwear, and Disneyland Resort. Successful sports franchises call Anaheim home, including Angels Baseball, Anaheim Ducks, Anaheim Arsenal, and the 2008 Olympic Gold Medal winning USA Men's Volleyball team. Anaheim also boasts world-class meeting and entertainment venues with the Anaheim Convention Center, the largest on the west coast, Honda Center, The Grove of Anaheim, Anaheim GardenWalk, and Angel Stadium of Anaheim. Annually, Anaheim welcomes millions of visitors to the city, truly making it where the world comes to live, work and play. For more information, please visit www.anaheim.net.
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