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About 100 high school students showed up last Wednesday (May 2) morning, eager to plant 300 Western red cedars in an effort to spruce up the eyesore.

TimberWest, a timber and land management company, donated the seedlings.

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The detention pond is a soccer-field sized area on Luxton Road that holds excess water from storm drains, a byproduct of rampant development in the area. The level of the water fluctuates seasonally and flows out into Firehall Creek by way of controlled outpours, preventing floods.

In an effort to beautify the area, Langford has already planted native species of plants around the edges of the area, including roses, snowberries and cottonwood trees. Despite a few nibbles from deer, the plants are doing well.

Two years ago the Belmont grad class did the same at the Leigh Road Interchange on the Trans Canada Highway.

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