{"id":6335,"date":"2013-04-11T12:00:21","date_gmt":"2013-04-11T19:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spiken.wpengine.com\/news\/volunteers-welcome-for-arbor-day-in-kent\/"},"modified":"2016-10-21T20:25:34","modified_gmt":"2016-10-22T03:25:34","slug":"volunteers-welcome-for-arbor-day-in-kent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/volunteers-welcome-for-arbor-day-in-kent\/","title":{"rendered":"Volunteers welcome for Arbor Day in Kent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p>Be a part of Arbor Day in Kent.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Volunteers of all ages and abilities can be a part of the work party set for 9 a.m. to noon, April 27 at West Fenwick Park, 3808 Reith Road, Kent (42nd Avenue South and Reith Road).<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Orientation begins at 9 a.m. Please arrive on time.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Crews plan to remove invasive plants in a few overgrown areas; plant native trees and shrubs in the cleared areas; add weed barrier and mulch, then water the plants.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>The event is for volunteers of all ages and abilities: students earning community service hours, families, individuals, scout troops, faith-based and corporate groups.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Kent has been named a Tree City USA city by the Arbor Day Foundation for the past 11 consecutive years.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Please register by noon April 24.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>To volunteer or for more information, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kentwa.gov\/ParkVolunteers\" target=\"_blank\">www.kentwa.gov\/ParkVolunteers<\/a>, call 253-856-5110 or email vandrews@KentWA.gov.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Be a part of Arbor Day in Kent.<br \/>\nVolunteers of all ages and abilities can be a part of the work party set for 9 a.m. to noon, April 27 at West Fenwick Park, 3808 Reith Road, Kent (42nd Avenue South and Reith Road). Orientation begins at 9 a.m. Please arrive on time. Crews plan to remove invasive plants in a few overgrown areas; plant native trees and shrubs in the cleared areas; add weed barrier and mulch, then water the plants.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":6336,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-6335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6335"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6335"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6335\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6335"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=6335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}