Daraktan: Crystal Ross O'Hara
Abin da ya fara shekaru 13 da suka gabata a matsayin aikin aji ya zama ƙungiyar itace mai bunƙasa a cikin birnin Orange. A cikin 1994, Dan Slater - wanda daga baya a waccan shekarar aka zabe shi zuwa majalisar birni na Orange - ya shiga ajin jagoranci. Don aikin ajinsa ya zaɓi ya mayar da hankali wajen inganta yanayin ɓarkewar bishiyoyin titunan birnin.
Slater ya ce: "A lokacin, tattalin arzikin ya yi muni kuma birnin ba shi da kuɗi don dasa itatuwan da suka mutu kuma suna buƙatar maye gurbinsu." Wasu sun shiga Slater kuma ƙungiyar, Orange for Trees, sun fara neman tallafi da tattara masu sa kai.
"Mun mayar da hankali kan titunan mazauna da ba su da 'yan itace ko kuma babu bishiya kuma mun yi ƙoƙarin shigar da mazauna da yawa don taimaka musu dasa da shayar da su," in ji shi.
Masu aikin sa kai suna shuka bishiyu a Orange, CA.
Bishiyoyi a matsayin Motsi
Ba da dadewa ba bayan da Slater ya hau kan karagar mulki, Majalisar Birnin Orange ta fuskanci wani batu da zai haskaka zurfafan alakar da mutane ke da ita da bishiyoyi. Yana da nisan mil 30 kudu maso gabas da Los
Angeles, Orange ɗaya ne daga cikin ɗimbin biranen Kudancin California da aka gina a kusa da filin wasa. Filin filin wasa ne a matsayin wurin da ya dace ga gundumar tarihi na musamman na birnin kuma babban abin alfahari ne ga al'umma.
A cikin 1994 an sami kuɗi don haɓaka plaza. Masu haɓakawa sun so su cire pine 16 na Canary Island da ke akwai kuma su maye gurbin su da Sarauniya dabino, alamar Kudancin California. Bea Herbst, memba ce ta Orange for Trees kuma mataimakin shugaban kungiyar na yanzu ya ce "Bishiyoyin Pine suna da lafiya kuma suna da kyau sosai kuma suna da tsayi sosai." “Daya daga cikin abubuwan da ke tattare da waɗannan pine shine cewa sun jure da ƙasa mara kyau. Bishiyoyi ne masu tauri.”
Amma masu haɓakawa sun jajirce. Sun damu da cewa pine ɗin za su tsoma baki tare da shirinsu na haɗa cin abinci a waje a filin wasa. Batun ya kare a gaban majalisar birnin. Kamar yadda Herbst ya tuna, "akwai fiye da mutane 300 a taron kuma kusan kashi 90 cikin XNUMX na su masu goyon bayan pine ne."
Slater, wanda har yanzu yana aiki a Orange for Trees, ya ce da farko ya goyi bayan ra'ayin Sarauniya dabino a filin wasa, amma Herbst da sauran su suka yi masa kawanya. "Ina tsammanin lokaci ne kawai a majalisar birni da na canza kuri'a," in ji shi. Pines ya kasance, kuma a ƙarshe, Slater ya ce ya yi farin ciki da ya canza shawara. Baya ga samar da kyau da inuwa ga filin filin, itatuwan sun kasance wata alfanu ta kudi ga birnin.
Tare da gine-ginen tarihi da gidajenta, filin wasa mai ban sha'awa da kusancinsa da Hollywood, Orange ya zama wurin yin fim don nunin talabijin da fina-finai da yawa, gami da Abin da kuke Yi tare da Tom Hanks da Crimson Tide tare da Denzel Washington da Gene Hackman. Herbst ya ce "Yana da ɗanɗanon ɗanɗanon gari a gare shi kuma saboda pines ba lallai ne ku yi tunanin Kudancin California ba."
Yaƙin ceton pine na plaza ya taimaka wajen haɓaka tallafi don adana bishiyoyin birni da kuma Orange don Bishiyoyi, in ji Herbst da Slater. Kungiyar, wacce a hukumance ta zama mai zaman kanta a watan Oktoba 1995, yanzu tana da mambobi kusan dozin biyu da kwamitin membobi biyar.
Kokarin Cigaba
Manufar Orange don Bishiyoyi shine "dasa, karewa da adana bishiyoyin Orange, na jama'a da na sirri." Ƙungiyar tana tattara masu sa kai don shuka daga Oktoba zuwa Mayu. Yana kaiwa kusan shuka bakwai a kowace kakar, in ji Herbst. Ta yi kiyasin cewa a cikin dukan Orange for Trees ta shuka kusan bishiyoyi 1,200 a cikin shekaru 13 da suka gabata.
Orange for Trees kuma yana aiki tare da masu gida don ilmantar da su game da mahimmancin bishiyoyi da yadda ake kula da su. Herbst ya shafe shekaru biyu yana nazarin aikin gona a karamar kwaleji kuma zai fita zuwa gidaje don ba mazauna shawarar bishiyar kyauta. Kungiyar ta kuma yi wa birnin zagon kasa a madadin mazauna garin domin kula da bishiyu.
Matasan yankin suna shuka bishiyu tare da Orange don Bishiyoyi.
Slater ya ce samun tallafi daga birnin da mazauna shi ne jigon nasarorin da kungiyar ta samu. "Wani bangare na nasarar ya fito ne daga sayayya daga mazauna," in ji shi. "Ba ma shuka bishiyoyi a inda mutane ba sa son su kuma ba za mu kula da su ba."
Slater ya ce tsare-tsare na makomar Orange don Bishiyoyi sun haɗa da inganta aikin da ƙungiyar ke yi. "Ina so in ga mun ƙware a abin da muke yi, haɓaka membobinmu, da ƙara yawan kuɗinmu da tasirinmu," in ji shi. Kuma wannan tabbas zai zama labari mai daɗi ga itatuwan Orange.