In observance of Earth Day, members of the 139th Airlift Wing joined students from Mark Twain Elementary School to plant mor than a dozen trees Friday.  (Click on each photograph to enlarge)

Captain Allen Bear, the wing’s Environmental Management Officer, and other members of the Air National Guard, joined crews from the St Joseph Parks Department and the 5th grade class at Twain Elementary to plant 14 trees at the St Joseph Aquatic Center on Noyes Blvd.

(U.S. Air Force photographs by Staff Sgt. Michael Crane/Missouri Air National Guard)