McKinley “Kenny” Redd (left) pushes a fir into the chipper fellow Port Chester Department of Public Works employee Steven Gazick operates. The DPW partnered with the Port Chester Sustainability Committee for the first-annual Christmas Tree Chipping event at Lyon Park on Sunday, Jan. 8, which gave residents an environmentally friendly way to wrap up the holidays.
Port Chester Department of Public Works employee PJ Cambriello shovels mulch into bags, which were distributed to families who brought their trees to Lyon Park for chipping.
May Place resident John Peterson drags his live Christmas tree along a path in Lyon Park to the tree chipper the Port Chester Department of Public Works brought for the event.
Mulch fills reusable Target bags that Port Chester Sustainability Committee Co-Chairs Ann Giannantonio and Brandon Hermoza-Ricci brought to the event. They were available to any families who didn’t bring containers of their own for collecting wood chips.
