NeighbourWoods has announced the winners of the Great Heritage Tree contest.
It made that announcement at the Centre Wellington committee of the whole meeting on Sept. 12.
Contest coordinator Kris Rocci told council there were 30 entries.
Peter Ellis nominated what turned out to be the tallest tree. The grand Norway spruce was 37 metres tall. He won a $100 gift certificate for dinner for two to the newly refurbished Cambridge Mill.
Donna Jesso offered the tree, a cherry, with the biggest circumference. She won a family pass to all GRCA parks for the 2012 season.
Mike and LeeAnne Bruder spent considerable tine researching the history of their nominated tree and won the gest story tree, and a $100 gift certificate to Roxanne’s Reflections Book and Card Shop in Fergus.
“Some entries had us digging through bushes and climbing steep inckuings,” said Rocci. She was assisted in checking the entries by tree inventory coordinator Alex Watts and membership coordinator Deb Gauthier. They checked all 30 nominated trees on Sept. 7.
Mayor Joanne Ross-Zuj made the presentations at the committee meetings. She told Rocci and NeighbourWoods manager Toni Ellis that urban forests were a recent topic at the Federation of Canadian Municipalities meeting, and thanks to that group’s work, she had “something to contribute” to that discussion.
