Rotary joins tree planting project

ONTONAGON — The Ontonagon-White Pine Rotary has joined other Rotary Clubs throughout the world in a project to plant trees in their communities.

The project, to plant the same number of trees as there are members in each club, was a request to the thousands of clubs in the world by the Rotary International president.

Following a lengthy discussion and comparing quotes from nurseries, the local club voted Wednesday to order 10 trees. The trees — maples and crab apples — will be planted at the Aspirus Ontonagon Hospital and at the Ontonagon Township Memorial Building.

Rotary President Jan Wolfe said the club will order five maple and five crab trees, representing the 10 members of the club, at a cost of $350 per tree, with a one-year warranty.

Member Janis Burgess reported on the continuing Project Amigo which provides afghan squares for quilt kits for the students and mothers in a small Mexican village. The mothers sew the kits together, receive a small sum of money for the sewing and the completed afghans are provided to the students in the cold mountainous region.

Friends of the Rotary, including Mary Ann Cestkowski, of Bruce Crossing, members of St. Paul Lutheran Church, in Mass City, and Cindy LeGault and Phyllis Bailey, of Ontonagon, have combined to knit 906 squares, enough for 10 afghans.

—Jan Tucker