Valley salon helps honor Tucson shooting victims

Valley salon helps honor Tucson shooting victims

SOURCE: ABC 15 PHOENIX

Posted: 03/26/2011

• By: Imani Randolph

PHOENIX - Valley business, R Salon, is holding a Cut-a-Thon on Sunday, March 27 in hopes of raising thousands of dollars for the Healing Trees Humanitarian Program .
Healing Trees was developed after the January 8 shootings in Tucson with the theme “Heal Our Communities, Offer Remembrance and Celebrate Life."

According to a news release, The FUSION Foundation, the Arizona Community Tree Council and Trees for Tucson | Tucson Clean and Beautiful are working together to provide visual life-giving memorials commemorating the lives of those who died, honoring those who were injured and paying tribute to the Tucson community in the wake of the tragedy.
R Salon will offer $15 shampoo/cuts or manicure and $25 shampoo/cut/style. All of the Cut-a-Thon tips and fees will go towards the Healing Trees planting campaign from Earth Day on April 22 to Arbor Day on April 29."Salons have always been gathering spots within a community and we wanted to use our stylists and services to donate our time for this worthy cause,” said salon owner Rick Patrick.

Healing Trees Cut-A-Thon @ R Salon

Healing Trees Cut-A-Thon @ R Salon

Cut-A-Thon

Cut-A-Thon

Tree Planting at Cesar Chavez Plaza to “Offer Remembrance”

WHAT: Healing Tree Planting at Cesar Chavez Plaza in downtown Phoenix, Ariz.
WHEN: Monday, February 14, 2011 at 2:00 p.m.
WHERE: Cesar Chavez Plaza, 201 West Washington Street, Phoenix, Ariz. 85003

Healing Trees Announces Tree Planting at Cesar Chavez Plaza to “Offer Remembrance”
...Phoenix Vice Mayor Williams will lead tree planting ceremony

PHOENIX, Arizona (February 9, 2011) – City of Phoenix Vice Mayor Thelda Williams will lead a “Healing Trees” ceremony at Cesar Chavez Plaza across from City Hall in downtown Phoenix on Monday, February 14 at 2:00 p.m. Healing Trees is a humanitarian program to plant trees in the wake of the Tucson tragedies last month.

Two 24-inch box Blue Palo Verde trees will be planted at Cesar Chavez Plaza across from Phoenix City Hall on Monday, February 14 at 2:00 p.m. The trees are being donated and DLC Resources is donating their services to dig holes for the trees. The Blue Palo Verde is the Arizona state tree and February 14, Arizona Statehood Day, is Arizona's 99th birthday.

Olivia Calderon, a world-renowned mariachi soloist, will sing during the ceremony, which will feature other community members as participants as well. Additional information will be posted at healingtrees.org

“This tree planting is a step to heal and unite our community. This is our time to do something significant to celebrate life and promote new growth — like planting trees. Through this a life-giving and earth-serving community act, together we can offer remembrance and be an instrument of peace and compassion in the community,” said Annie Loyd of Healing Trees.

About Healing Trees:
As a direct response to the Tucson incidents of January 8, the Healing Trees Humanitarian Program was developed to "Heal Our Communities, Offer Remembrance and Celebrate Life." The FUSION Foundation, the Arizona Community Tree Council and Trees for Tucson | Tucson Clean and Beautiful are working together to provide visual life-giving memorials to commemorate the lives of those who died and honor those who were injured in Tucson on January 8. The first tree planting will be held at Creative Living Fellowship on Sunday, February 13 at 1:00 p.m. Four other planting are scheduled for February 14: one at Khalsa Montessori School in Tucson at 9:00 a.m., one at Lowell Elementary School in Phoenix at 10:00 a.m., one at Red Rock High School in Sedona at 10:00 a.m., and one at Crittenton Youth Academy in Phoenix at 12:30.

WHAT: Healing Tree Planting at Cesar Chavez Plaza in downtown Phoenix, Ariz.
WHEN: Monday, February 14, 2011 at 2:00 p.m.
WHERE: Cesar Chavez Plaza, 201 West Washington Street, Phoenix, Ariz. 85003See More

Crittenton Youth Academy Hosts Tree Planting on Feb. 14, 2011 at 12:30 PM

The Crittenton Youth Academy will host a tree planting at 12:30 PM, Monday, February 14, 2011. They are located at 715 W. Mariposa Street, Phoenix, AZ 85013. (This is at the South-West of 7th Ave and Camelback.) More details to follow.

Cultural Arts Coalition Partners with Healing Trees

Since ancient human history, people have had a need to represent their beliefs, values and emotions in physical, artistic forms taking the shape of symbols, symbolic objects and performance. These metaphors can be more powerful than language as a means of communication. The Cultural Arts Coalition believes that everyone can use the arts to Reflect, Express and Discover. Every person can Create, regardless of age, economics, social position, education, geography, gender, culture, or any other aspect of human existence. In this purposeful manner of art making, the value of the created object is in the one who created it. The object is a representation of its maker. Practitioners with the Cultural Arts Coalition use art making and cultural forms as modalities to enrich the life journey of every person, individually and in community.

The act of gardening, the planting of the trees, is also considered a creative expression that links us all to the concept of the interconnectedness of all life. Purposeful manner of art making, the value of the created object is in the one who created it. In this case the planting is also an ongoing nurturing act~ a metaphor for our personal linage-our family tree, the nurturing and love for our family and those in our community. It is the intention of the Cultural Arts Coalition that an interdisciplinary curriculum about the protection of our environment is also promoted and celebrated with the planting of our trees.

Gardens for Humanity Partners with Healing Trees

Founded in 1996, Gardens for Humanity has worked for ecological education to help give our children and all members of our community the values, tools and experiences needed to seek and regain balance with the natural world.

We are participating in the Healing Trees Project by spreading the word amongst schools and community organizations serving as a resource for planting healing trees in our area. We will also provide notice and a link to the Healing Trees Project on our web site (in progress).