Joliet encourages tree planting with Slammers sapling giveaway

Joliet encourages tree planting with Slammers sapling giveaway

The Channahon Mustangs Little League baseball team commemorated a belated Earth Day and Arbor Day with assistance from D’Arcy GMC on Saturday by giving out saplings at the Joliet Slammers game.Joliet arborist and Channahon baseball board member Jim Teiber said the giveaway was meant as a way to celebrate the environmental holidays and encourage residents to plant trees.“We gave out 300 white pine and ponderosa pine saplings, and they went up wit…