Old Christmas Trees To Help Rebuild Jersey Shore
Volunteer April Readlinger is collecting discarded Christmas Trees to help rebuild the beach dunes in Berkeley Township.
Getting rid of your Christmas tree? Now it can go to a good cause. Princeton resident April Readlinger is spearheading a local effort to collect old trees and take them to the Jersey Shore where they will be used to rebuild dunes destroyed by Hurricane Sandy. The project started about a week ago, after Readlinger saw a Facebook post about Berkeley resident Dominick Solazzo’s initiative to stack old Christmas trees along a one-third mile stretch of beach at the south end of South Seaside Park, a section of Berkeley Township located just south of Seaside Park Borough. Solazzo is a member of the board of directors of a homeowners' association there. Readlinger shared Solazzo’s efforts on her Facebook page and offered to pick up trees locally…
