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City to celebrate joy of bee-ing

The city of Hendersonville will dedicate the new Bee City USA sign on Wednesday.

By Bill Moss, Published: June 16, 2015

The City Council made it official. And now it’s officially recognized with a sign.

Hendersonville is the seventh Bee City in the U.S.A.

Hendersonville Mayor Barbara Volk and members of the city’s Tree Board and Environmental Sustainability Board will celebrate the joy of Bee-ing on Wednesday, June 18, at 1:30 p.m., at the new Bee City USA sign on U.S. 64 at Blythe Street.
The event coincides with the city’s celebration of Pollinator Week.
The Hendersonville City Council on May 7 unanimously adopted a resolution making Hendersonville the seventh Bee City USA. The Hendersonville Tree Board is the sponsoring board for the new project. A designated Bee City USA is expected to annually celebrate being a Bee City USA community with a proclamation and public awareness activities; publicly acknowledge commitment to the program through signage and web links; and annually report activities to Bee City USA to renew the designation.
Bee City USA is a nonprofit national organization that encourages cities to celebrate and raise awareness of the contribution bees and other pollinators make and to create sustainable habitats for pollinators.
The Hendersonville Tree Board has organized efforts to plant 130 trees along Bearcat Loop leading to Hendersonville Elementary and Middle schools and along Upward Road at Spartanburg Highway. Many of those are native flowering trees that support pollinators.