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	<title>Toni Ann Johnson</title>
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		<title>Tree-planting day!</title>
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At the registration location, Ralphs Grocery on Manchester in South LA, just before the tree-planting.  I&#8217;m with Michael Espinosa, who runs the Los Angeles Community Beautification Grant program.  He also attended the tree-planting back in January.  He&#8217;s been instrumental in all the projects I&#8217;ve done in the area.  Back in 2006, my block club and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>ANOTHER TREE PLANTING COMING UP!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On Saturday, July 10, 2010 at 8:30am, Million Trees LA is doing another tree planting in our community! 
We will sign-in again at Ralphs Grocery, 1730 Manchester Ave. LA, CA 90047 and walk just a couple of blocks east on Manchester to the location where we&#8217;ll be planting several trees.
I&#8217;m excited and so grateful to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Update on Ralphs</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s been a while&#8230;  The tree planting was awesome, but exhausting.  I needed a break.   Here&#8217;s a picture of how the trees look so far.

When we planted them, they just looked like small twigs&#8211; Charlie Brown Trees, but that was back in January.  Finally, at the beginning of April, you can see [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://toniannjohnson.com/?p=183</link>
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		<title>From LA OBSERVED</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8211;Written by Adrienne Crew, for LA OBSERVED
Toni Ann Johnson, a screenwriter, community activist and blogger, uses her blog to document her efforts to bring more green to her neighborhood in South Los Angeles. It&#8217;s been a two year struggle but she&#8217;s finally achieving visible results. Partnering with Million Trees L.A., the Southwest Los Angeles Neighborhood [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Lush Green South LA, with Toni Ann Johnson</title>
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A Lush Green South LA, with Toni Ann Johnson
www.toniannjohnson.com
www.fs.fed.us
www.Turnt-Up.com
www.milliontreesla.org
Interview with Executive Director of LA, Lisa Sarno


Interview with Screenwriter/Community Activist, Toni Ann Johnson

Interview with Council Member, Bernard C. Parks

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That&#8217;s me with Russell Ferguson who recently won SO YOU THINK YOU CAN DANCE.  So, what does THIS have to do with Community Beautification?  The connection is a slight stretch, I&#8217;ll admit, but there IS a connection.  As well as being the force behind the tree planting event tomorrow, I am also a screenwriter who&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NC good news!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Heard from Pat Jones, chair of the neighborhood council, today.  She held a special meeting and they finally have a quorum.  Woo hoo!  This is awesome.  She said they voted in favor of supporting the tree planting.  This means that we&#8217;ll be able to have them help pay for the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Meeting at Ralphs</title>
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This was taken Wednesday December 16th at the Ralphs on Manchester Blvd., the site for our upcoming tree planting.  That&#8217;s me in the hat, looking like I&#8217;m wearing a disguise.  To my right is Carrie Ridge, manager of Community Relations for Ralphs.  She and I began corresponding back in the fall of 2007 when I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://toniannjohnson.com/?p=126</link>
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		<title>No Quorum</title>
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That&#8217;s me with Lisa Sarno (she&#8217;s in pink), executive director of Million Trees LA.  We&#8217;re pitching our tree planting event to the Neighborhood Council board members and the stakeholders.
Our goal was to get the board members to vote to approve the expenditure for the maintenance of the trees for two years.  Unfortunately, there was no [...]]]></description>
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