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New Palm Trees at West Boca
Photo Credit: Linda Pikula, NOAA/NESDIS/Miami Library at CreativeCommons.org
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Written by Cindy Castillo, Staff Writer
Over the past two weeks students and faculty may have noticed the huge trees and backhoes overtaking the courtyard. Something many might be wondering is where did these trees come from.
The 180 palm trees were given to West Boca by the school district. The conflict over the trees actually began about four and a half years ago when hurricane Wilma hit and destroyed a lot of the agriculture around West Boca Raton High School. About half of the trees in the courtyard died. So in 2006, they were replaced along with all of the trees and bushes in the front of the school. Unfortunately they all began to die again and finally have been replaced since then. The original plan was to cover up half of the lots on the courtyard but it was actually cheaper to put new palm trees up. Now that the trees have been put up, the next step is to finish covering up five lots next to the band room. The new cemented area will be used by the band to practice. The band department had requested somewhere where they could practice other than the field because it was too muddy when bad weather hit.
11th grade band member, Justin Steipleman, said “ I’m very happy that the courtyard will finally be fixed because when we used to practice on the field everything would get so muddy it was hard to practice”. Statistics teacher Mr. Cinelli mentioned he thinks the trees will “be really nice once they fill out”.
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February 3rd, 2010 at 8:59 am
Thanks for explaining the reason for our school’s tropical embellishment. Most of us have been wandering why we got so lucky as to have, finally, some green landscape in our courtyard.
It would be nice and it would give importance to the changes and the “green” addition, if the student government would make like an official ceremony in order for the rest of the student body to notice and appreciate the change of scenery that we have been provided. It would highlight the importance of keeping a “green” environment, thus highlighting along the way, the effort of recycling in order to keep our “green” scenery.
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February 3rd, 2010 at 3:49 pm
These trees costs about $2,000 each. What better way to waste money in this economy than plant 30 pointless trees in a coutryard?
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