Wednesday June 3, 2009
From The Star
Stories by JADE CHAN
SISTERS Melanie and Melissa Liew, aged eight and five respectively, enthusiastically took part in a tree-planting activity in their neighbourhood last Sunday as they helped to scoop and pack the soil around the trees.
Their father, Liew Kim Yen, said he brought his daughters along to teach them to be aware of the environment, and how trees play an important role towards a greener place.
“Melanie was inspired by an Earth Day event held at her school in Sri Sedaya, Subang Jaya. One important lesson she learnt was to reduce the use of plastic bags, something which she has been reminding her family about ever since,” said the USJ 11/3 resident.
Residents of USJ 11/3 and USJ 11/4 got together to plant 90 pagoda trees along Jalan USJ 11/6 during the activity that was organised by Subang Jaya assemblyman Hannah Yeoh’s office with the Subang Jaya Municipal Council’s (MPSJ) assistance.
“The Subang Jaya community will be planting 200 trees, mostly forest trees, next Saturday at the Millennium Park to commemorate World Environment Day. We will later move on to other residential areas to plant more trees,” said Yeoh.
“Our ultimate aim is to make Subang Jaya more green and shady, and to teach the children from young to care for the environment.”
Yeoh said the tree-planting activity was inspired by her trip to Singapore where she observed that a lot of effort had been put in to make everywhere green, including the city centre.
“We need to have the right system and plants that require minimum maintenance to make Subang Jaya a green area,” she said, urging the residents to keep an eye on the trees that they helped plant for the community’s benefit.
Yeoh said the MPSJ had allocated part of the prize money it had won for coming in second in the Housing and Local Government Ministry’s 2008 Star Rating of Local Government to go towards beautifying Millennium Park, which will be turned into a green lung for the community.
She added that the tree-planting at Millennium Park was a joint collaboration between her office, JKP (Residents Committee) Zone 1 and the MPSJ, with the assistance of several corporate sponsors.
MPSJ landscape architect Azlina Mat Salim said the beautification of Millennium Park would be done in stages.
“We will be changing the face of the park from a concrete jungle to green jungle.
“Stage one would comprise tree-planting; stage two is landscaping. The later stages include the rectification of walkways and installation of benches and street lighting,” she said.
From The Star
Stories by JADE CHAN
SISTERS Melanie and Melissa Liew, aged eight and five respectively, enthusiastically took part in a tree-planting activity in their neighbourhood last Sunday as they helped to scoop and pack the soil around the trees.
Their father, Liew Kim Yen, said he brought his daughters along to teach them to be aware of the environment, and how trees play an important role towards a greener place.
“Melanie was inspired by an Earth Day event held at her school in Sri Sedaya, Subang Jaya. One important lesson she learnt was to reduce the use of plastic bags, something which she has been reminding her family about ever since,” said the USJ 11/3 resident.
Residents of USJ 11/3 and USJ 11/4 got together to plant 90 pagoda trees along Jalan USJ 11/6 during the activity that was organised by Subang Jaya assemblyman Hannah Yeoh’s office with the Subang Jaya Municipal Council’s (MPSJ) assistance.
“The Subang Jaya community will be planting 200 trees, mostly forest trees, next Saturday at the Millennium Park to commemorate World Environment Day. We will later move on to other residential areas to plant more trees,” said Yeoh.
“Our ultimate aim is to make Subang Jaya more green and shady, and to teach the children from young to care for the environment.”
Yeoh said the tree-planting activity was inspired by her trip to Singapore where she observed that a lot of effort had been put in to make everywhere green, including the city centre.
“We need to have the right system and plants that require minimum maintenance to make Subang Jaya a green area,” she said, urging the residents to keep an eye on the trees that they helped plant for the community’s benefit.
Yeoh said the MPSJ had allocated part of the prize money it had won for coming in second in the Housing and Local Government Ministry’s 2008 Star Rating of Local Government to go towards beautifying Millennium Park, which will be turned into a green lung for the community.
She added that the tree-planting at Millennium Park was a joint collaboration between her office, JKP (Residents Committee) Zone 1 and the MPSJ, with the assistance of several corporate sponsors.
MPSJ landscape architect Azlina Mat Salim said the beautification of Millennium Park would be done in stages.
“We will be changing the face of the park from a concrete jungle to green jungle.
“Stage one would comprise tree-planting; stage two is landscaping. The later stages include the rectification of walkways and installation of benches and street lighting,” she said.
No comments:
Post a Comment