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Carl J. Bower Jr., a horticulture instructor at Pennsylvania College of Technology, has been elected to a three-year term on the Pennsylvania Landscape & Nursery Association Board of Directors.

The Horticulture Club has donated another $300 to Penn College's Relay for Life team, the fourth consecutive year in which the student organization has contributed to the fight against cancer. Centered in the School of Natural Resources Management and co-advised by horticulture instructor Carl J.

Katherine A. Walker, assistant professor of drafting and computer aided design at Pennsylvania College of Technology, spoke at the Oct. 8 graduation ceremony at the State Correctional Institution at Muncy. Walker is a longtime member of the institution's academic advisory committee.

On an appropriately sunny Thursday afternoon, students from Penn College's School of Construction and Design Technologies set the poles that will anchor an array of solar panels southwest of the Victorian House.

This week's Green Tip from the Horticulture Club is about a topic that many don't like to talk about: shoveling snow. Leaves are falling ... but snow soon will be falling, too. Think about how you are going to get rid of it. Sure, the snow blower does a quicker job, but keep in mind the amount of pollution that blower emits.

Two members of Pennsylvania College of Technology's Horticulture Advisory Committee made material donations while attending a recent accreditation-related function in the School of Natural Resources Management. William D. Wells, a longtime committee member who retired as chairman and chief executive officer of W.D.

The chairman and chief executive officer of a Chester County landscape design firm recently was honored for his years of support and participation on the School of Natural Resources Management's Horticulture Advisory Committee. After 21 years of service on the committee, William D. Wells chairman and chief executive officer of W.D.

This week's Green Tip is brought to you by Penn College's Horticulture Club: It's safe to say that we like it when we can keep things out of the landfill and find a home for something that may not be needed any longer. The hard part is to locate people who share those feelings and may want to receive some of those goods. There are Web sites out there that do just that!

This week's Green Tip is brought to you by the Horticulture Club: Fall is a great time to plant in your landscape because of lower temperatures and increased rainfall, but make sure to think before you plant. Consider planting native species that are better acclimated to our area and often will tolerate local insects and diseases, as well as the amount of rainfall we get.

Locally, our water reservoirs have been pronounced at 100-percent capacity all the more reason, per this first Green Tip of the new semester, to conserve and preserve the natural resource we have. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has placed water as No. 1 in its "Pick 5 for the Environment" campaign. Wasted food also is wasted water.