Millennium Park to be

Sunday, 31 May 2009

Millennium Park to be

Everyone, Anyone Can Join In

Huge forest trees have started coming in for the big day to reforest Millennium Park in SS13 in conjunction with World Environment Day. More than 200 trees will be planted on June 6 2009.

TWO hundred trees, 500 residents. That's the target for this coming June 6 when residents from all over Subang Jaya, USJ, Bandar Sunway and surrounding areas converge to plant the trees in two hours.

In what is considered the biggest reforestation project ever organised in an urban environment, the dilapidated Millennium Park in SS13 Subang Jaya will be planted with a variety of forest trees in effort jointly carried out by the Subang Jaya Municipal, the Subang Jaya State Assemblyman's Office and Residents Committee (JKP Zone 1).

Planting the trees which are at least seven metres in height will be a mammoth task.

ADUN Subang Jaya Hannah Yeoh said it would need everyone's effort to help ensure the initiative got off the ground.

"This is Phase 1 of the re-greening of Millennium Park. More will be done to restore the area into its original status - a green lung."

"We need residents young and old to join us to make sure we plant all the trees in the time allocated for the exercise," she during during a site visit to monitor the excavation of the concrete floor around the Park.

GOING, GOING......Work is ongoing to remove the concrete at the Millennium Park.

MPSJ is working round-the-clock to ensure the area is ready for planting this weekend, according to it's deputy assistant director (landscape) Azlina Mat Salim.

According to Hannah, the Millennium Park would eventually be transformed into a recreation and green area for everyone.

JKP Zone 1 councillor Theresa Ratnam Thong who was present said the area would eventually be barricaded to keep vehicles off the ground.

Millennium Park could one day look like these huge forest trees found in the Forest Research Institute of Malaysia (FRIM) reaching for the sky.

Subang Jaya Residents Association chairman A.S. Gill who was also present welcomed the initiative by MPSJ. He expressed his hope the council would identify more areas for greening, making it an asset residents could enjoy around them.

Wait no more. Get your changkul, gloves and gardening tools out. Bring them along with the family and join in this historic event which will turn Subang Jaya into a Green City.

Date: June 6 2009 (Saturday)

Time: 9.30am-11.30am

Venue: Millennium Park, SS13 Subang Jaya

For more information, call the ADUN Subang Jaya's office at 03 5631 2768.

If you have suggestions or places in your neighbourhood which you wish to plant more trees, email us at editor@sjecho.com.my and provide us more details.