Ed Laivo, the Dave Wilson Nusery's sales director, is a longtime advocate of dense tree planting, and wrote a how-to pamphlet called "Backyard Orchard Culture" in the early 1990s.
In 2009, Toti Cadavid, born in Columbia and a longtime resident of Lone Tree, Colorado, almost lost her life on Thanksgiving Day.
"It's about spirit," said John Ohler, the Wye Oak park manager and Mr. McLaughlin's longtime partner in tending the tree, noting that it had withstood ice storms and hurricanes in the past, when people thought it was doomed.
Tax the man behind the tree?' " said Tim Hibbitts, a longtime independent pollster in Oregon.
Esther Hoenig, a longtime resident, convinced one of the tree surgeons to salvage a wet log.
Erstad also becomes the latest branch from the coaching tree of Mike Scioscia, the longtime Angels manager who succeeded Collins.
"She always sees an enemy behind the tree," said Renze Lolkema, a longtime speedskating reporter from the Netherlands, where the sport is hugely popular.
Byron Phillips, a longtime pest management consultant for Washington's tree fruit industry, had worked with orchards that were certified organic, others that were sustainable and others that were conventional.
Janice Anderson, the longtime resident, puts garlands on the block's tree guards.
After retiring, he fulfilled a longtime dream and purchased a horse farm, Chestnut Tree Farm, Pittstown, NJ, which he operated for eight years with daughter, Tracey Frick, and partner, Stephanie Levick.
