About 20 children and dozens more adults joined West Carrollton Mayor Jeff Sanner and members of the city council and city beautiful commission for Arbor Day on Friday, April 26.

During the ceremony, the children helped plant two trees near the Wilson Park playground. Several trees had to be removed in the park last year due to infestation of the emerald ash borer.

The city earned its 24th Tree City USA certificate during a ceremony on Friday, April 19 in Greenhills, Ohio.

According to Wendi Van Buren, from Ohio Department of Natural Resources’ Division of Forestry, Ohioans last year planted more than 27,000 trees, pruned more than 110,000 trees, volunteered more than 48,000 hours landscaping public parks and preserves and invested more than $40 million toward urban forestry efforts.

The revitalization of West Carrollton’s Olde Downtown Neighborhood continued today with a groundbreaking ceremony for a new home to be constructed at 207 W. Pease Ave.

The two-story, 3 bedroom/2 bath, home will be built by The Housing Source of CountyCorp using Neighborhood Stabilization Program (NSP) federal funds.

Speakers during the event included Steve Naas, president of CountyCorp/The Housing Source; Deborah Lieberman, Montgomery County Commissioner, Jim Bowers, West Carrollton City Council Member; and Jeff Grisez of Generations Construction.

During the past decade, Montgomery County & CountyCorp funding sources have been the catalyst for the revitalization of West Carrollton’s Olde Downtown Neighborhood.

Eight uninhabitable homes have been demolished in the area. Five homes have been totally renovated through County Corp, and three new homes have been built. In addition to those projects, 5 new Habitat for Humanity homes have been constructed with two more currently in progress in the area.

West Carrollton’s community-wide Garage Sale Event will be held on Saturday, May 11.

Please call (937) 847-4633 by 4:30 p.m. on Wednesday, May 8, to have your address included on the list.

A list of addresses will be printed on the city’s website at www.westcarrollton.org and posted in the Civic Center lobby by Thursday, May 9.

Garage sale signs do not require a permit, but the signs may not be placed in the right-of-way, typically no closer than 10 feet from the curb. According to city regulations, in addition to the community-wide sale events, residents are permitted to have two additional garage sales per year. Residents are required to register those additional sales with the planning and building department. Call (937) 859-5184 for more information.

During the week after the Garage Sale Event, the service department will conduct Large-Item Trash Collection during May 13-17 on residents’ regular collection days.