This town in Calvados celebrates births in an original way

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Tuesday October 29, 2024, young residents of Condé-en-Normandie (Calvados), born from 2018 until 2023, were invited to the inauguration of their tree.

Six birth trees were inaugurated at Maurice Piard Park that day, an unusual activity that the town likes to engage in.

One tree per year of birth

Six new trees now adorn Maurice Piard Park, at the foot of which a plaque allows you to discover all the first names of children born in the same year and “whose parents lived in the town at the time of this happy event”, details Valérie Desquesne, mayor of Condé-en-Normandie.

The variety of the tree is also listed there, as well as a representation of the tree in the making.

Six different varieties of trees

Each year, from 2018 to 2023, was assigned a different variety: a cinnamon maple for 2018, a tulipier de Virginie for the year 2019, in 2020 a tree with forty crownsand handkerchief tree for 2021, a despair of the monkeys for 2022 and a silk tree for the year 2023.

These six different varieties will participate in the will of the municipality “to create an arboretum in Maurice Piard Park”adds Valérie Desquesne.

Every year, a tree will be added to symbolize the births of the year, “because the life of a municipality passes through its children”.

Discover your tree

Little Matthew, born in 2023was present for the event with his parents to discover the silk tree planted on the edge of the pond, next to the beach.

Romane, born in 2019quickly found her first name and that of her school friends on the plaque at the foot of the Virginia tulip tree in the other part of the park, next to the games.

To enhance this inauguration, the mayor of Condé-en-Normandie gave a bag of candy to each of the children present.

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