The board of directors and friends of the Sister Cities of Greenfield gathered on Sunday, March 11, to mark the one-year anniversary of the devastating earthquake and tsunami in Japan. The board’s president, Robert Young, read a statement commemorating the moment, then everyone present participated in a symbolic planting of a weeping cherry tree along Pennsy Trail, near the organization’s Japanese garden.

The garden is located just west of SR 9 in Greenfield and just south of the Greenfield Police Department.

Read the tree planting press release here