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July 23, 2007

From acorns to...

A long time ago, the young Friends of Pontefract PM children's meeting planted acorns which grew into seedlings. The Meeting sought permission to plant the little trees in the Yorkshire Sculpture Park, near Wakefield. The children of the MM then took over and cared for the trees. They are now bigger than the children who planted them, and a Friend from the Meeting reports that one of the young planters, now a big chap, with his niece who is the same age he was when the tree project begun have visited the trees. It is nice to see something right through...

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