THE Philippine Mine Safety and Environment Association (PMSEA) and Heaven’s Touch Planners and Coordinators have teamed up for a common Interest - saving the trees.

PMSEA president Louie Sarmiento and Heaven’s Touch heads Gigi Maranan and Cynthia Tabora Tuazon will work together to save the Norfolk Pine Tree at the foot of Session Road.

As part of the PMSEA program of activities next week, a “check-up” of the 31 foot tall tree is set.

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“It was my grandfather who planted that tree and we have to preserve it,” Tabora–Tuazon said.

According to her, “the tree is the remaining living monument of the late Mayor Alfonso O. Tabora’s vision of an environment-friendly Baguio during his term as the last appointed mayor of Baguio by President Ramon Magsaysay from 1954 to 1959.”

It was the late mayor who was the pioneer in planting trees along the center of Session and Harrison Roads during his term.

Sarmiento said the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) will be tapped to assess the health of the tree today and devise plans to preserve it.

Then tree check-up is set on the afternoon of November 7, a week before the kick of the 56th PMASEA convention here.

After the check up of the 50-year-old tree, Heaven’s Touch will continue to decorate it, in time for its ceremonial lighting at the end of the month to usher in the Christmas spirit in Baguio.

The giant tree has served as the city’s annual Christmas tree and this year it has been renamed the “Centennial Tree,” in commemoration of the 100th year of the mountain resort.