Volunteers beautify North Park in Billings for Arbor Day
Billings arbor day at North Park
and last updated 2021-05-12 20:10:30-04
BILLINGS â Wednesday is Arbor Day, a day created in 1872 to encourage planting trees to help beautify the surrounding community.
Every year in Billings, the Parks and Recreation Department puts on an Arbor Day event where they improve a local park. The parks department says that this yearâs event wouldnât have been possible without the help from volunteers.
Wednesdayâs improvement was at North Park off Sixth Avenue North. Dozens of volunteers from businesses around Billings showed up to plant trees, lay mulch, paint park bathrooms and gazebos, tear out old horseshoe pits, and lay sod where needed.
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the a.p. reports another former priest that admitted getting a 14-year-old pregnant later got work teaching sixth grade in new jersey. the data editor for the associated press, megan hoyer joins me. she co authored this report. thanks so much. thanks for having me. shepard: there s so much here, i recommend our viewers read it. for you, the most astounding thing in the big picture is what? honestly, the most interesting thing is this is probably an under count. a number of diocese have not published lists of accused priests yet. we know we didn t catch everyone. so you know, if anything, this is probably an undercount. we found roughly 1,700 abused priests. these are priest whose names are on lists of the diocese have put out as being accused of sexual assault, are living virtually