Eamer's Corners continue tree-planting tradition in Cornwall

Eamer’s Corners Public School students continued a decade-old tradition on Monday.

Dozens of students in grades 4 and 5 were learning in an outdoor classroom as part of a tree-planting event that now stretches all the way back to 2015.

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Many of those students present at the initial tree-planting event in the Gambhir Memorial Forest, a protected parcel of land just north of Highway 401, are now in high school and university, noted Dr. Indu Ghambhir.

“This property was full of ash trees, and they were impacted by an invasive species called the emerald ash borer,” said Raisin Region Conservation Authority (RRCA) communications lead Lisa Van De Ligt, briefly explaining the history of the event to this year’s young arborists. “Those trees all died. They had to be removed