LAKE COUNTY, Calif. – At a recent Clear Lake Trowel and Trellis Garden Club meeting, Michelle Wisler was awarded a Penny Pine certificate for her special contributions from her work with the Lucerne Senior Center’s group with flower arranging.

A former club member, Karen Tesse, who now lives in Bakersfield, also purchased and received a Penny Pines certificate to honor her family. She contributed when she heard of the ravaging fires in our county last year.

Anyone may donate to Penny Pines in memory, or in honor, of a person. These certificates are for the 2012 Mill and the Pass fires in the Mendocino National Forest.

So far, the club has contributed 74 acres to the Penny Pines reforestation program.

If you wish to donate, please contact Penny Pines Chair Joyce at 707-279-8606.

Under a conservation agreement, an individual or organization can contribute $68 toward the cost of planting seedlings on about one acre of National Forest land in California and receive a Penny Pines certificate.

Using the donation, together with Federal funds, the Forest Service will do the planting on the National Forest of your choice.

The Penny Pines plantings are made as part of the regular National Forest reforestation program on burned-over and brush-covered area which are potentially productive timberland.

Using these donations, combined with regular forest planting funds, millions of pine, fir, redwood and giant sequoia seedlings have been planted on acres of National Forest land in California.

The Clear Lake Trowel and Trellis Garden Club is a member of the Mendo Lake District of the California Garden Club Inc. Pacific Region and National Garden Clubs Inc.

The club welcomes new members and information can be found by visiting www.clttgc.org or call Kathleen Steinberg at 707-500-0009.

Kathleen Steinberg is a member of the Clear Lake Trowel and Trellis Garden Club.