Cherry Blossom Festival Joins Chase To Plant 30 Trees In DC's Oxon Run Park

WASHINGTON, DC — The National Cherry Blossom Festival is partnering with Chase for a tree-planting ceremony on Friday in Oxon Run Park in Southeast D.C.

More than a dozen Chase employees will participate in the planting of the 30 trees. The ceremony also will honor 30 children who earned a Blossom Badge through the National Cherry Blossom Festival’s Blossom Kids program, an online program designed to help kids explore the festival’s history and learn about D.C.

Over the past two decades, the National Cherry Blossom Festival has worked with schools, civic groups and community groups through the Neighborhood Tree Planting Program to plant cherry trees throughout D.C.’s eight wards and in Arlington.

The ceremony will take place at 9 a.m. on Friday, Oct. 22 at Wheeler Road and Valley Ave SE in Oxon Run Park in Ward 8.

Speakers at the ceremony will include Alfonso Guzman, regional director of Chase Mid-Atlantic, Absalom Jordan, Chair of Friends of Oxon Run Park, and Diana Mayhew, president and CEO of the National Cherry Blossom Festival.