Uptown Initiative - Memorial/Honor Tree Program

Martinsville Uptown Revitalization Association and Gateway Streetscape Foundation Inc. have partnered to promote the Memorial and Honor Tree Program in Uptown Martinsville.  You may choose an environmentally friendly way to honor or remember a loved one or occasion.  Your longstanding gift will also beautify Martinsville Uptown. Sixty-one trees have been planted since March 2006, 27 have already been sponsored. 

• Your donation of $200 to the Gateway Streetscape Foundation will help purchase, plant, and maintain your tree.  

• Locations are available throughout the city, and if you would like to choose the tree, we can schedule a meeting and discuss your choices.  

• You can also drive along Uptown on the street you prefer.  Trees without plaques should be available for sponsorship.  Please have three choices, as some of the trees have been reserved.

  • Trees have a 10-year guarantee.  If it dies, another will be planted in its place and the plaque will be unchanged. 

  • Tree types are already chosen at their locations.  If you prefer a type over a location, please specify on the form below. 

• Types are

  • Autumn Gold – Ginko-Gingko biloba

  • Heritage – River Birch-Betula nigra

  • Filifera Aurea – Goldmop-Chamaecyparis pisifera

  • Sawtooth Oak-Qurecus acutissima

  • October Glory Maple – Acer rubrum

  • Dynasty – Lacebark Elm-Ulmus parivifolia

  • Natchez – Crape Myrtle Lagerstroemia indicia Natchez

  • Green Vase – Zelkova-Zelkova serrata

  • Bloodgood  Maple – Acer plamatum

  • and one Kwanzan – Kanzan Cherry-Prunus serrulata

• Locations are

  • Main Street

  • Church Street

  • Walnut Street

  • Fayette Street

 Recognition

• A 3- by 5-inch plaque at the tree site

• Dedication ceremony in the spring - Arbor Day Uptown.

• Notification Card sent to the family or honoree

• A holiday card can be sent if requested

• Listing on a plaque at the Martinsville City Municipal Building

• Listings and photographs on the Gateway Streetscape Foundation and Martinsville Uptown Revitalization Association’s websites

Family members who sponsored a tree in the past told us they enjoy seeing their tree throughout the changes of the seasons and the sight of it makes them happy and remember their mother.   Perhaps you would feel the same way should you sponsor a tree.  Thank you again for considering an Uptown Memorial/Honor Tree.  Please call Susan McCulloch at 276/632-5688 or 276/618-0996 with any questions, to sponsor a tree, or to schedule a meeting.

Please print and fill in the form below and mail your donation of $200, payable to Gateway Streetscape Foundation Inc.,  to Martinsville Uptown, PO Box 614, Martinsville, VA  24114.

 

Arbor Day Uptown Poetry Contest Winners - Middle School

1st Place   In the trees   Bees are buzzing in the trees Lovely little yellow dots, Staring back at me.   Flies are buzzing in the trees Huge hideous red eyes, Staring back at me.   Butterflies are flapping in the trees Lovely little fake blue eyes, Staring back at me.   And yet… Are they really Staring back at me   By Julia Teague 6th Grade Ms. Largen Fieldale-Collinsville Middle School

2nd Place   Save the Trees   Every tree that we cut down and throw away and carry out is one less tree to be a home for busy bees and honeycombs.   It’s one less tree that could become a child’s fort or bluebird’s home where children sit under the leaves while sun shines down above the trees.   We need these trees for everything from furniture to apple seeds don’t waste the trees that give us food, apples, bananas, and other fruit.   Timid Willows, mighty Oaks save the trees is not a joke. They let us live, breathe, exist Save the trees, don’t resist.   By Johanna Kasbohm 7th Grade Ms. Ingram Fieldale-Collinsville Middle School

3rd Place   5 Haiku About Trees   Trees are beautiful They shine in the sunlight’s rays They provide good shade.   Trees have feelings too Weeping willows are sad trees Dogwoods are glad trees.   They provide us things Things of wood are everywhere Desk, paper and chairs.   They provide shelter For cold little animals And a lot of birds.   They provide us fruit Apples, oranges, tangelos They are all awesome.   By Mykael Fjestad 7th Grade Ms. Ingram Fieldale-Collinsville Middle School

Uptown Memorial and Honor Tree Program

 I would like to donate a ­­□  Memorial ­­□  Honor Tree.

 

 For __________________________________________________

            (Honoree, Memorial for, Occasion, ex. Anniversary, Birthday)

 

 Your Relation to Honoree or Memorial recipient _____________________

 

Your Name (s) ___________________________________________

 

Address _______________________________________________

 

City, State, Zip ____________________________________________

 

Phone  _________________   Email ___________________________

 

Name and address of person(s) to be notified of this gift _______________

 

______________________________________________________

 

Street Location of Tree   _____________________________________

 

□  Please call me to schedule a meeting.

 

Enclosed is my tax-deductible donation  of $200 payable to Gateway Streetscape Foundation, Inc.   Mail to Martinsville Uptown Revitalization Association, PO Box 614, Martinsville, VA  24114.  www.martinsvilleuptown.net, 276/632-5688