Johnny Appleseed Award
Children & Elders Forest in September 2007 announces its first award program, named for the folklore hero Johnny Appleseed. This announcement coincides with the beginning of the fall campaign to register for the 140 trees remaining in Eagle Grove, Winter Hill Grove, and Windrow Grove, to be planted November 10 and 17, 2007.
The Johnny Appleseed Award goes to people in fifteen teams who have planted and/or registered for three or more trees in Children & Elders Forest during the 2005-2007 planting seasons. We are awarding certificates to these people at A Tree Party, Thurs., Sept 6, 2007 at 7 p.m., New Vision Church (across from Winter Hill Grove), 814 Jersey Ave. There will be dessert (a tree cake), door prizes, including C & E Forest note pads and pens, and a short show by noted environmental musician, Jack Kaufmann.
The Award winners, with numbers of trees, locations, and dates, are:
| Rita Anderson (Heritage Enterprises) | 3 in Eagle G., 2006 |
| Sandy Bush | 3 in Turtle G., 2005 |
| Julie Dobski | 5, 1 in Turtle G., 2005, and 4 in Winter Hill G., 2006 |
| David and Deborah Gentry | 3, 2 in Turtle G., 2005, and 1 in Eagle G., 2006 |
| Joe and Donella Grabill | 4, 2 in Turtle G., 2005, and 1 each in Winter Hill G. and Windrow G., 2006 |
| Shamelle Grabill | 4, 1 in Turtle G., 2005, and 3 in Eagle G., 2006 |
| Julie Hile and Bob Broad | 4, 2 in Turtle G., 2005, and 2 in Winter Hill G., 2006 |
| Gretchen Jacobson | 3, 1 in Turtle G., 2005, and 2 in Winter Hill G., 2006 |
| Chelsea Lee and Charity Lee Kennedy | 3, 2 in Turtle G., 2005: 1 in Winter Hill G., 2006 |
| Karin Nowers | 3 in Turtle G., 2005 |
| Ann and Ed Ruhrup | 3, 2 in Turtle G., 2005, and 1 in Winter Hill G., 2006 |
| Alice Sue Shepherd | 3 in Turtle G., 2005 |
| Tammy Stewart | 3, 1 in Windrow G., 2006; 2 in Winter Hill G., 2007 |
| Tim and Vicky Tilton | 4, 1 in Winter Hill G., 2006, and 3 in Eagle G., 2007 |
| Donna Wampler | 3, 1 in Turtle G., 2005, and 2 in Eagle G., 2006 |
Johnny Appleseed (born John Chapman, 1774-1845) was a
solitary, itinerant nurseryman and pioneer missionary. He owned
and planted apple tree nurseries throughout Ohio, Indiana, and
Illinois, making circuits to tend his nurseries. He never
married. He had deep green values and sought to protect animals
and insects. He walked barefoot, even in winter, wore only
second-hand clothes, and gave away possessions to needy people.
At his death in Allen County, Indiana (around Ft. Wayne), he
owned 1200 acres of nurseries. At that time his four nurseries
in Allen County alone contained 15,000 trees.