SANDY — Volunteers are needed today for the city's annual Sandy Pride Day, during which hundreds of residents will work on 18 landscaping and enhancement projects throughout the city.
The event will take place between 8 a.m. and noon, with the largest project taking place at The Bluffs hillside at 1700 East between 11900 South and 12200 South. There, volunteers will plant 721 shrubs and 95 trees.
"This is the single largest volunteer effort of this type each year in Sandy," Mayor Tom Dolan said.
Nineteen trees and 46 shrubs will be planted at Hidden Valley Park, 11700 S. Wasatch Blvd.; 23 shrubs will take root in Flat Iron Park, 1700 E. 8600 South; 18 trees and three shrubs will be planted at the Sandy Senior Citizens Center, 9310 S. 1300 East; and 61 shrubs and 16 trees will be placed into the ground along the Sunrise streetscape at 9400 South and 1780 East.
Other projects will bring improvements to Alta Canyon, Wasatch Valley Tank Park, the Sandy City Museum, Aspen Meadows, the Sandy City Cemetery and the Buttercup Village streetscape.