with more Anastasia Rine:
Northeast News, Kansas City, Vandals Steal 15 Palm Trees, Impacting Independence Avenue Beautification Project
Over the past several weeks, the Independence Avenue Urban Street Ambassadors have been hard at work beautifying the Independence Avenue corridor with new landscaping installations, colorful flowers and decorative palm trees intended to brighten the community for residents, visitors and local businesses alike.
But overnight, in the early morning hours of Friday, May 22, at least 15 palm trees planted along Independence Avenue were stolen. Security cameras captured footage of a person in a white sedan stopping at Independence Avenue and Brooklyn at 12:23 a.m., removing a palm tree from a planter, placing the tree in the back seat of their vehicle, and driving away.
These trees, purchased as part of ongoing beautification efforts by the Independence Avenue Community Improvement District (CID), had recently been installed by the Urban Street Ambassadors, who maintain the corridor year-round through landscaping, litter removal and streetscape improvement projects.
I would have thought Kansas City winters would be too harsh for palms. Maybe they bring them in in winter.
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