Main Street Trees Get a Trim

DAYTON – The trees along Dayton's Main Street provide beauty and shade throughout downtown most of the year, but they can't do it without some professional help. That help arrived Saturday.

According to Pacific Power's regional community manager, Bill Clemens, professional arborists from throughout the northwest converged on Dayton with two boom-truck crews to prune and clean up the trees – mostly London Plane – that line both sides of Main Street.

"They come from Pendleton, Pilot Rock, Tri-Cities and a far as Yakima," Clemens said.

Clemens said that the Trees, Inc. crews work year round trimming trees along power lines owned by Pacific Power. "These guys work just for us, and that's all they do. They know how to trim trees to keep them healthy."

Bette Lou Crothers, president of the Dayton Development Task Force, the group that originally installed the trees in the early 1990s, said that the trees need to be trimmed about every two years. "All of us in Dayton should be very grateful for the volunteer effort provided by Trees, Inc. and Pacific Power," she said.