For the past three decades, volunteers with the Pueblo nonprofit organization Trees Please have been getting their hands dirty to help beautify Pueblo.
Since its founding in 1990 by Puebloans Jean Latka and Jean Eskra, Trees Please has planted more than 4,500 trees throughout town and raised hundreds of thousands of dollars for local planting efforts.
Their latest initiative saw 106 trees planted Monday and Tuesday along the Elizabeth Street Parkway by about 20 Trees Please volunteers, funded primarily through $24,000 in grants from the Bob and Doris Johnston Foundation and the Rawlings Foundation.
Latka said for the past 30 years, she’d driven through the area of the parkway and wondered, “Why doesn’t somebody plant this?”