Out with the (c)old, in with the new

By Charles Roberts


Here are some encouraging words: The Buffalo State College ground crew is ready to put away the snow plows and salt trucks until next winter.

Joe Territo and the BSC ground crew are ready for their spring cleaning. Most people's spring cleaning includes dusting off the television, vacuuming for an extra 10 minutes, taking out the trash and calling it a day. Territo and company have a completely different agenda.

The following work is the proposed arboretum and beautification project:

  • Rockwell Hall- installation of shrub beds and relocating the buildingsign.
  • Moot Hall- planting three new disease-resistant Robinson crabapple trees.
  • Grover Cleveland Hall- installing new shrub beds, planting a flowering tree and installing a new redwood bench.
  • Caudell Hall- new trees and shrubs will be planted, along with installing a new redwood bench.
  • Student Union- annual flowerbeds and shrubs will be planted to enhance the entrance of the building.
  • Upton Quad- replacing the damaged sidewalks for safety reasons and planting Japanese flowers and trees.
  • Science Building- along with a new ramped entrance will be an entrance enhanced with a new flower and shrub bed. Furthermore, new redwood benches will be installed.
  • Rockwell Road- struggling red oak trees will be replaced with Ussurian pear trees, which flower brightly.
  • Lot Y- eastern white pines that have been ravaged by road salt will be replaced with Italian oak trees.
  • Lot X- a large Siberian elm tree that is 75 percent dead will be pruned in hopes of revival.
  • Ketchum Hall- a large spruce tree that is diseased will be removed. Near Lot B, a decaying sugar maple tree has been labeled hazardous and will be removed.
Some spring cleaning, huh?

"We'd like to start the planting late this month (April) and in the earlydays of next month (May). We are just hoping there won't be many Mayfrosts," said Territo, who is a certified arborist and is the BSC coordinator of special grounds projects.

Territo hopes to have a majority of the planting done within two weeks of the projects startup. The larger projects will be summerlong.

"That sounds like a lot of work, but I know in years past they (BSC ground crew) have done an excellent job," said Charles Lyons, a random BSC student who will be graduating this spring.

"We will have Buffalo State looking clean and bright for graduation," Territo added. Anyone looking for the new arboretum brochures can contact Lisa Krieger at 878-6551.