Short Takes

Convinced that March had nothing more in store for me, I was ecstatic over the response in the community for the nationwide call for planting trees! Two buses and about 4 Kombi’s made two trips each from the front of the high school to a site approximately 14 kilometers away. The Shumski, department of forestry had prepared an area of about 5 acres on the hillside overlooking the Treska river to plant 1800 pine seedlings. We left the school at 9 am and were ready to plant by 9:30. Most people worked in groups of two, one digging and the other placing the seedling and tamping it firmly in the rocky clay. Within an hour and a half we were done! No one required the services of the ambulance and the accompanying physician on standby at the site during the whole period.

These are my colleagues at the municipality, accompanied by Suzana’s son Stephen in the light blue cap.  Sitting from left: Happie, Radmila, Lena, Milka, Goce and Drasko. Standing from left: Suzana, Biljana, Nadezda, Riste, Silvana, Jovanka, Vlejanka, Vanja, Zoran, Zlatko, Milena, Zore, Olivera, Zivko and Slave. Taking the picture was Slavica. Rada, Coba and Peco left before we assembled for the picture.