OKNA’s Cynthia Sulaski was featured in a lovely interview, recapping her 11 years as OKNA’s tree planting coordinator.
Please click through for a read to see how a thousand trees and countless neighborhood participation opportunities were a result of one person’s excitement and enthusiasm.
Friends of Trees celebrates Cynthia Sulaski, neighborhood coordinator
 
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..As we talked, she gazed out her window at the beautiful Red Oak (oaks are her favorite species) that she planted in her planting strip with Chad Honl, former neighborhood trees manager at Friends of Trees. Its leaves were the colors of an autumn sunset, shades of red and orange.
Cynthia has planted all the trees on her property during the 12 years that she’s lived there. “I bought a house that had zero trees on it, your standard ugly/boring 1950s thing,” she said. The only plants in her yard were some dying lilacs. Then Cynthia and Friends of Trees came along, and you can imagine what it looks like now.
“Over the years I just love seeing my Japanese Persimmon and my crabapple and my oaks, and I think, well, 11 to 12 years ago there was nothing here.”..
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