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Marco Island Arbor Day tree planting, Jan. 2012

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Noberto Vargas, left, holds the tree erect as the dignitaries add thir shovelfuls of dirt. Members of Marco Island's Beautification Committee and city officials gathered at Calusa Park on Wintergreen on Friday, Florida's Arbor Day, to ceremonially plant two trees. Lance Shearer/Eagle Correspondent

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Noberto Vargas, left, holds the tree erect as the dignitaries add thir shovelfuls of dirt. Members of Marco Island's Beautification Committee and city officials gathered at Calusa Park on Wintergreen on Friday, Florida's Arbor Day, to ceremonially plant two trees. Lance Shearer/Eagle Correspondent

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  • Noberto Vargas, left, holds the tree erect as the dignitaries add thir shovelfuls of dirt. Members of Marco Island's Beautification Committee and city officials gathered at Calusa Park on Wintergreen on Friday, Florida's Arbor Day, to ceremonially plant two trees. Lance Shearer/Eagle Correspondent
  • Members of Marco Island's Beautification Committee and city officials gathered at Calusa Park on Wintergreen on Friday, Florida's Arbor Day, to ceremonially plant two trees. Lance Shearer/Eagle Correspondent
  • Committee chairman Barbara Murphy, left, joins in the applause for Chris Burt of Island Garden Center, who donated the trees. Members of Marco Island's Beautification Committee and city officials gathered at Calusa Park on Wintergreen on Friday, Florida's Arbor Day, to ceremonially plant two trees. Lance Shearer/Eagle Correspondent
  • Committee chairman Barbara Murphy, along with Sue Oldershaw and Diana Dunn, expounds on the history and beauty of trees. Members of Marco Island's Beautification Committee and city officials gathered at Calusa Park on Wintergreen on Friday, Florida's Arbor Day, to ceremonially plant two trees. Lance Shearer/Eagle Correspondent

A cast of thousands – well, a dozen or so – gathered to put two Jamaican dogwood trees into the ground, in celebration of Florida’s Arbor Day, along with eight shiny official shovels, heavy equipment, and the laborers who did the actual work of planting the trees.

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