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ANAHEIM : City Tree-Planting Project to Proceed

By LISA MASCARO

Despite the city budget deficit this year, the municipal tree-planting program will not be hurt as much as had been anticipated because of an unexpected $40,000 state grant.

The money, a state urban forestry matching grant, was awarded to the Parks and Recreation Department. Through the city program, more than 500 trees were planted last year. The additional funds will allow the city to plant 1,142 more.

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Lisa Mascaro

Lisa Mascaro previously covered Congress in Washington, D.C., for the Los Angeles Times. She left in February 2018. A Los Angeles-area native, she has reported across Southern California, edited, traveled the States and worked in Texas. While the Washington correspondent for the Las Vegas Sun, she contributed as the paper won the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service. An economics and political science graduate of UC Santa Barbara, she also studied in Budapest, Hungary.

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