Volunteer members of the West Penn Power Green Team will be handing out 300 free trees Friday in Jeannette.
The white flowering dogwood saplings will be distributed starting at 9 a.m. at the community garden at Clay Avenue and South Seventh Street. Dogwoods are a low-growing species native to Pennsylvania that don’t interfere with overhead utility lines.
FirstEnergy, the parent company of West Penn, has a goal to plant 25,000 trees in 2024 in its service territory, with half of them in underserved communities. In addition to the sapling giveaway, Green Team members will add topsoil and compost to 20 raised beds at the community garden.
