Leetonia, Youngstown to get Tree City awards

LEETONIA — “Trees are the answer.” That’s the title of a talk that will be given Tuesday as the village hosts a Tree City USA Awards Ceremony.

The talk will be given by Chris Carlson, an associate professor of urban forestry and arboriculture at Kent State University.

Youngstown also will be getting its first Tree City award, said Lola Lewis of New Philadelphia.

Lewis is a former Youngstown steel mill worker who, when the mills closed, moved on to become an urban forester for the Ohio Department of Natural Resource’s division of forestry.

Some 33 representatives from communities and agencies will be at the ceremony, including Sean Logan, a former Columbiana County commissioner and a state representative who is now the director of ODNR. He’s scheduled to speak.

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