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Project Acorn reports 300+ trees planted, workforce training funded by $1M federal grant
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City staff told a committee that Project Acorn, a $1 million federal grant program, has trained workers and planted more than 300 landscape-sized trees across five targeted neighborhoods and will run four more cohorts through 2027; staff asked council to help publicize tree giveaways and ward outreach.
City staff gave an update on Project Acorn, an urban-forestry and workforce-development program funded by a $1,000,000 federal grant spanning five years.
Jessica Glochowski, the city's watershed superintendent, said the program combines urban-canopy restoration with an eight-week paid training academy that hires Akron residents. The first cohort, called Aspen Academy, trained five people (one participant dropped at the last moment) with…
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