Mayor Brown Plants A Plum
Dear Mayor Brown,
We, the boys and girls of the Second Grade, think you are doing a good job as mayor.
We are concerned about our earth. Here are some ideas we would like you to work on.
1. Clean our streets
2. Have factories and businesses use better, cleaner ways of doing business
3. Plant new trees
4. Encourage people, by making a speech, to give away or sell items they might usually throw away
5. Stop the use of chemical insecticides and chemical fertilizers
Thank you for listening to our concerns.
Sincerely yours,
The Second Grade Class of Nardin Academy
Chloe Celani, Ben Portman, Caroline Smith, Teddy Schenk, Elizabeth Galbo, Cecelia Bushway, Paul Koessler, Kiera Callahan, Sarah Paladino, Flora Adams, Connor McCartney, Victoria Bogucki, Tom Colucci, Coaty Ostendorf, Jacqueline Schanzlin, Zachary Berzon, MacKenzie Beck, Taylor LoDestro, Brooke Weir, Clare Scully, Samuel Capizzi.
It is believed that 85 percent of the city’s estimated 65,000 trees were damaged in the October 2006 storm and around 7,400 trees were lost entirely. In an effort to show his dedication to planting new trees, Mayor Brown, the second grade class, and their teachers, Mrs. Susan Flak, Mrs. Susan Ostroff, and Ms. Terri Haim; all partook in planting an Ornamental Plum tree.
The Mayor even presented a plaque reading: To celebrate our city's natural environment and continue the reforestation of Buffalo following the 2006 October Surprise Storm, Mayor Byron W. Brown and the Nardin Academy Second Grade Class planted this Ornamental Plum on May 13, 2008.
Since the storm, Mayor Brown placed $1 million in the city’s 2007-08 budget for reforestation efforts and placed another $750,00 in his recommended 2008-09 budget for additional reforestation efforts. Also, on April 7th, the Mayor announced the hiring of Jeff Brett as the first city forester in three years. He also already does many items on the list with the fourth item being covered by the many charitable organizations around the city that accept items to distribute them to those in need.
Besides being a supporter of Re-tree WNY, this latest planting of Mayor Brown and the second grade class of Nardin Academy shows his dedication to answering constituents' pleas--even the non-voters.
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Andrew
Plant more trees! I love when residential streets have a tree canopy like on hedley place in hamlin park
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comptart_lws
Take better care of the trees we have, too! The parkway streets are particularly sad — when was the last time trees along, Richmond, Bidwell, Porter (these are just the ones I've noticed for years) got a good grooming? It was well before the Oct storm of 2 years ago that branch shoots at lower levels were in need of trimming. We need better foresting of what we already HAVE — pplease don't leave that out of the equa$ion!
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AtwaterLouse
I realize their little letter isn't to be taken seriously, but it shows some stupid brain washing by at least one Nardin teacher:
How could a professional teacher not be aware that some insecticides and fertilizers have greatly improved living standards in many places? Stopping insecticides such as DDT has caused many deaths due to Malaria. Any teacher who shoved item 5 into their little brains should be traded away to a public school.
This was strange too but at least funny:
Future BuffaloRising authors! We can only imagine what other cities they'll eventually find real jobs in, from which they can submit long-distance BR articles about great Buffalo's renaissance is progressing in 2028 or so.
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tonyarmani
wow if this is all it takes to get B. Brown to react those kids should write another letter:
"Dear Mayor Brown,
We, the boys and girls of the Second Grade, think you are doing a good job as mayor.
We are concerned about our earth. Here are some ideas we would like you to work on:
1. Reduce corporate and property taxes to spur growth.
2. Rid the city of unions to cut down on public tax dollar waste.
3. Implement pay for performance and merit based hiring instead of the buddy system so the best and the brightest are working for us as public servants.
4. Be bold and take on many old service groups that are a leech to the system and need to go.
5. Stop using Crayola crayons to sign official documents.
fsda Thank you for listening to our concerns.
Sincerely yours,
The Second Grade Class of Buffalo"-
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tudorguy
Seriously, can't he take his jacket off?
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iamBuffalosfuture
the city doesnt even have a forestry dept. the county forestry dept (those based in the garages off the e-way near delaware park) were actually sent out to the burbs following the storm. I hope people are watering these trees (need alot of care first couple yrs) and not ruining the trunk/bark with excessive mulch. PS Byron Brown = Vinyl NewBuilds + Party Gestapo
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leadi
Atwater - wondering if you have kids that attend Nardin?
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anthonycapone
i sent the mayor an e-mail to address a problem im having with the parking people....im a single father and go to school and work part time, my whole life is currently financial chess. apparently the dmv made a mistake and "forgot" to tell me about the city's request to notify me off parking tickets from years and years ago when i was 18 and irresponsible . Now they decided out the clear blue to suspend my plates until i pay them the entire outrageous 1500 dollars, ha , i have no one to borrow that from , and the way my finance's are , currently , i cant even start saving anything that would even put a dent in that for at least a year , on top of that , im up for a new job that could put me in a free apartment with utilities covered , but i need my own car . talk about queen city irony! I sent the mayor a plea for help resolving the situation , i said i will volunteer , landscape , work for the impact team , anything , just give me some sort of payment schedule or something , i will pay the debt and violunteer . No answer from the mayor , the supervisors , i called and e-mailed every one...... "shows his dedication to answering constituents' pleas--even the non-voters " ............HA!
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AtwaterLouse
leadi - Nope, so if you're implying it's none of my business then in a way you're right. Btw, I wasn't intending to slam Nardin - just any 'teacher' who tells 2nd graders they should believe #5 as worded above. It won't do much harm because kids eventually decide themselves what to think, but still #5 is an extremist view that shouldn't be 'taught' in schools. Saying the teacher should be traded to public schools was just a joke obviously.
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gaustad
Dear Mr. Mayor, please clean the crack heads off Elmwood Ave, especially between Utica and Allen.
Thank you for doing your job.
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Colin
1. How can the mayor reduce corporate taxes? Those are state/federal, right?
2. Hasn't the mayor cut property taxes the last two years?
3. What's an "old service group?"
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gaustad
Colin, I just saw you running for your life down Elmwood, between Bryant and Summer
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Colin
I only run for the Mr. Softee Truck.
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