Globe Gazette
Mason City, Cerro Gordo County, Iowa
Saturday, October 8, 2011

Fifth-and sixth-graders from Lincoln Intermediate School planted trees Friday in the Elmwood St. Joseph Cemetery.

Elmwood St. Joseph Cemetery Manager Randy OPHEIM (top left) and Lincoln Intermediate School students Jake PALMER (right center), Brady SHEIMO (far right) and Justin ZEIGLER plant a tree Friday at the Elmwood St. Joseph Cemetery in Mason City. The students are part of a group called Lincoln Leaders, who are fifth-and sixth-graders elected as leaders of their homeroom classes at Lincoln Intermediate. The planting was part of the Trees Forever grant, which also funded more trees to be planted in East Park.

Globe Gazette photograph by Jake Rajewsky

Transcription by Sharon R. Becker, October of 2011