AmeriCorps and Our City Forest join to plant trees

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Some of Playworks' Silicon Valley AmeriCorps members teamed up with Our City Forest to plant some trees in the Silver Creek neighborhood of San Jose. Bringing their green thumbs and grabbing some shovels, they dug deep new homes for the trees to lay their roots!  

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