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One hundred trees will be added to downtown Long Beach area Saturday.
Councilman Robert Garcia will join the Downtown Long Beach Associates and the Redevelopment Agency for the tree planting.
Volunteers will check in at 8:30 a.m. on the Promenade north of Broadway.
Coffee, juice and donuts will be provided.
For more details, call Lena Gonzalez at (562) 570-6919 or email her at lena.gonzalez@longbeach.gov.
Joe Segura, a mild-mannered reporter for a major metropolitan newspaper, has covered Gotham City, er Long Beach, for 34 years. During his very, very long -- endless -- tenure, he's covered almost every beat, and he was the main writer for BeachWeek, which focused on life and lifestyles of the shoreline communities from downtown Long Beach to the Huntington Beach pier.
He's also been keenly interested in environmental issues, long before green became fashionable, writing extensively about the battles to save Bolsa Chica (Huntington Beach), Hellman (Seal Beach) and Los Cerritos (Long Beach) wetlands.
E-mail Joe at joe.segura@presstelegram.com.
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