Save Earth, Save Our Home at SJKC Yuk Choy, Ipoh

 18 Aug 2022

This afternoon at 2.30pm, 130 teachers from SJKC Yuk Choy Ipoh and SJKC Chung Tack Simee will be a attending a talk on Sustainable Environment. It was jointly organised by Lions Club of Velcity, Lions Club of Perak Silver State and Lions Club of Ipoh Central in collaboration with the two schools.

The talk will be conducted by Ipoh City Councillor, Dr. Richard Ng, an Environmentalist cum the President of Lions Club of Perak Silver State.

Teachers will be briefed on Climate Change and how we could reduce its impact. They will be given knowledge on what might happen in 2050 if nothing is done today under the theme "Save Earth, Save Our Home".

They will also be taught on how to make eco-bricks to stop plastic pollution. A Eugenia tree will be planted at the school compound and eco-bricks will be placed around the tree planted.

About Eugenia Tree:

Common Name: Eugenia oleina
Botanical Name: Syzygium myrtifolium
Full Grown Height: 6  m
Spacing: 2-5 m

Green Our Earth Save Our Future Generations at Kinta River Walk

22 April 2022: Green Our Earth Save Our Future Generations @ Kinta River Walk

Lions Club of Perak Silver State (LCPSS) will team up once again with Ipoh City Council (MBI) to plant trees at Kinta River Walk in conjunction with World Earth Day on 22 April 2022.

This is part  of LCPSS Environment Project to help protect our planet Earth and to reduce the impact of Climate Change. It is also part of MBI's mission to reduce carbon emission and achieve a Low Carbon City status by 2030. Thanks to Mr. Ong Teng Boon, CEO of Bond Holdings and MBI for sponsoring these Tecoma trees.

The five Tecoma trees will be planted by 5 VVIPs. It carries a serial number from LCPSS 106/04/2022 to LCPSS 110/04/2022 which signifies that 110 trees have been planted by LCPSS since July 1 2020 under President Lion Clr. Dr. Richard Ng.  

World Earth Day falls on 22 April each year and celebrated by over 1 billion people around the globe. For LCPSS, this will be the 106th to 108th trees planted since July 2020. These trees are given a QR code tag so that passers by can scan and get info about the trees planted. 

The trees will be planted by five prominent people: YB Encik Mohd Akmal Bin Kamarudin, Perak State Exco in charge of environment, Ipoh City Mayor, Dato' Hj Rumaizi Bin Baharin, Lions Club Multiple District Vice Council Chairperson, Lion Dato' Yeoh Moh Chai, Kinta District Officer, Encik Meor Hezbullah Bin Meor Abd Malik and LCPSS President cum Ipoh City Councillor, Lion Dr. Richard Ng. 

After the tree planting, the LCPSS legacy board will be signed by dignitaries to mark an important milestone of LCPSS.

The public will also be invited to sign their pledge to embrace Recycling Culture. The signing board will be placed at Kinta River Walk for 1  month.

This is a very significant project by Lions Clubs and in Ipoh it is spearheaded by Lions Club of Perak Silver State in our effort to green our Earth to save our planet and our future generations. 

ABOUT THE TECOMA TREES PLANTED:

Tecoma is a genus of 14 species of shrubs or small trees in the trumpet vine family, Bignoniaceae originated from South America. It is also known as Trumpetbush and always being compared with Sakura trees in Japan. It blooms normally between February and April each year.

The tecoma trees will grow to maximum height of 25m with carbon sequestration of approximately 7,000 kg. 

Four interesting facts about 'Sakura Look-alike' Tecoma Trees that we see in Malaysia (See the following link):

https://hello.tourplus.my/festive-seasons/4-interesting-facts-about-the-sakura-look-alike-tecoma-trees-that-we-see-in-malaysia/

The five tecoma trees planted will be commemorated with QR Code and Serial Numbers from LCPSS/106/04/2022 to LCPSS/110/04/2022 as follows:

Tree Number: LCPSS/109/04/22

Name of Tree: Tecoma or Trumpetbush Trees

Date Planted: 22 April 2022

Planted by: YB Encik Mohd Akmal Bin Kamarudin, Perak State Exco in charge of Environment

Tree Number: LCPSS/110/04/22

Name of Tree: Tecoma or Trumpetbush Trees

Date Planted: 22 April 2022

Planted by: YBhg Tuan Meor Hezbullah Bin Meor Abd Malik, Kinta District Officer

Tree Number: LCPSS/106/04/22

Name of Tree: Tecoma or Trumpetbush Trees

Date Planted: 22 April 2022

Planted by: YBhg Dato' Hj. Rumaizi Bin Baharin, the Mayor of Ipoh City

Tree Number: LCPSS/107/04/22

Name of Tree: Tecoma or Trumpetbush Trees

Date Planted: 22 April 2022

Planted by: YBhg Lion Dato' Yeoh Moh Chai, Multiple District Vice Council Chairperson

Tree Number: LCPSS/108/04/22

Name of Tree: Tecoma or Trumpetbush Trees

Date Planted: 22 April 2022

Planted by: YBhg Lion Clr. Dr. Richard Ng, Ipoh City Councillor cum President of Lions Club of Perak Silver State (2021 - 2022)

Green Our Earth Save Our Future Generations Tree Planting Programme at St. Michael School, Ipoh

12 Aug 2021:

The Lions Club of Perak Silver State (LCPSS) and Ipoh City Council in collaboration with St. Michael Institution (SMI) organised a tree planting programme to plant four more trees.

Under the theme “Green OUR Earth Save Our Future Generations”, the campaign aims at creating awareness among the society especially students on the importance of planting trees. Tree planting helps in carbon emission and reduce earth temperature.

The campaign held in conjunction with Merdeka Month will also involve the flag raising in front of the school to show our patriotism towards our beloved country. Guest of honour is YB Leong Cheok Keng, State Assemblyman for Malim Nawar and Advisor for Chinese Community Affair for Minister of Housing and Local Government.

Four trees will be planted which consists of 3 Mempari (or Pongamia Pinnata) trees and 1 Yellow Flame (Peltophorum pterocarpum) tree. 

The tree planting is part of LCPSS environmental project aims to save our planet earth and mitigate climate change as stated in United Nation Sustainable Goal number 13. LCPSS aim to plant 100 trees by end of 2021.

 To date LCPSS have planted 28 trees since August 2020 and benefitted over 10,000 people. The campaign is also part of Ipoh City Council’s objective of planting 1,500 trees a year. This is to fulfil its mission of achieving a Low Carbon City by 2030. Each tree planted is given a QR Code that contains information about who planted and when planted, name of tree and its detailed information. It will later be link to Ipoh City Council innovative award winning Ez3 system of identification trees in Ipoh.

Mempari Tree (Pongamia Pinnata)

Yellow Flame tree (Peltophorum pterocarpum)

Present to support our campaign is Guest of Honour YB Leong Cheok Keng, who is also the State Assemblyman for Malim Nawar and Advisor of Chinese Community Affair for Minister of Housing and Local Government. Also present include Ipoh City Councillor for Zone 8, Mohammad Iskandar Abdul Rahman and SMI Principal, Sit Wai Yin.

Three Mempari trees (Pongamia Pinnata) and one Yellow Flame tree (Peltophorum pterocarpum) costing RM600 each were provided by Ipoh City Council. These trees when matured after 10 years are capable of absorbing 3,400 kg of CO2 per year. These trees absorb CO2 and produce Oxygen during photosynthesis thus give us fresh air and more oxygen. To date the city of Ipoh has over 200,000 trees of different species. 

Details of Yellow Flame Tree or Pelthophorum pterocarpum can be found in this link:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peltophorum_pterocarpum

Description of Tree:

It is a deciduous tree growing to 15–25 m (rarely up to 50 m) tall, with a trunk diameter of up to 1 m belonging to Family Leguminosae and sub-family Caesalpiniaceaea. The leaves are bipinnate, 30–60 cm long, with 16–20 pinnae, each pinna with 20–40 oval leaflets 8–25 mm long and 4–10 mm broad. The flowers are yellow, 2.5–4 cm diameter, produced in large compound raceme up to 20 cm long. Pollens are approximately 50 microns in size.

Name of Tree: Yellow Flame Tree (Peltophorum pterocarpum) The fruit is a pod 5–10 cm long and 2.5 cm broad, red at first, ripening black, and containing one to four seeds. Trees begin to flower after about four years.

Details of Mempari (Pongamia Pinnata):

Features: The tree grows to 6-15m tall. The compound leaves appear in two rows, each heart-shaped leaflet is shiny, dark green and thinly leathery. The flowers look like those of bean plants, and are lilac, appearing in bunches on a stalk. Tiny insects seem attracted to the flowers. Fruits are flat bean-like pods that are somewhat oval with a little beak at the tip, appearing in bunches. Each pod contains one seed.

Human uses: The leaves are fed to livestock. The bark is used to make string and rope. Although the seeds are poisonous, an oil extracted from them (called Pongamol or hongay oil) is used for lighting, to manufacture soap and candles, and in medicinal uses. The roots and seeds are used as a fish poison in Australia and Indonesia. Various parts of the trees are also used in traditional medicine.. According to Tomlinson and Giesen, the tree is often planted as a shade tree along roads, but Corners says it is rarely planted in Malaya.

 

Rewarding Vaccinated Senior Citizens with Food Basket

 30 July 2021:

To date, more than 80 percent of the population age 18 and above in the Kinta District have registered for covid-19 vaccination. Of these, less than 40 percent have received 1 dos and about 20 percent are fully vaccinated.

In order to encourage more people to register and get vaccinated so that we can achieve a herd immunity with 80 percent fully vaccinated, Lions Club of Perak Silver State in collaboration with Ipoh City Council tracked residents especially senior citizens in Pasir Pinji to register for vaccination.

According to Club President, Dr. Richard Ng who is also the Ipoh City Councillor for Pasir Pinji, the tracking was carried out from house to house while providing groceries to needy in Pasir Pinji two months ago under the MBI Caring scheme. With the help of People’s Representative Committee (JPP), we will enquire if the recipients and their family members have registered and received the vaccination.

“I was surprised to find many of them have not done so especially among the senior citizens. Among the reasons given include their inability to register via MySejahtera apps as they have no smartphone, lack of knowledge, no access to internet and also uncertainties due to too many anti-vaxxers stories that have scared them.”

“I then got my team from Lions Club of Perak Silver State (LCPSS) together with JPP members to bring along the Vaccination registration form and register them instantly.”

“I told them that once they have received the covid vaccination we will provide them incentives in the form of more groceries and other necessities contributed by Ipoh City Council and LCPSS.”

We delivered our promise by providing food basket to the first 30 recipients recently held at the Pasir Pinji Community Hall. Pasir Pinji Police Chief, SM Ramlee Bin Isa, have kindly consented to give away the food baskets to 20 recipients and the remainder were sent directly to their home.

#MBI_Prihatin   #WeServe   #HungerRelief   #ZonPasirPinji

Green Our Earth Save Our Future Generations - Dewan Komuniti Pasir Pinji

 30 July 2021

Lions Club of Perak Silver and Ipoh City Watch will be collaborating with Ipoh City Council to plant Two Merawan Siput (Hopea Odorata) trees within the compound of Dewan Komuniti Pasir Pinji, Jln Sultan, Pasir Pinji to replace 2 trees which have fallen due to strong wind in April 2021.

This is an environmental project by the club to assist the Ipoh City Council to achieve the planting 1,500 trees in Ipoh by end of 2021. Under the slogan "Green Our Earth Save Our Future Generations, the project hopes to create awareness to the public on the importance of planting trees to increase carbon sequestration, reduce earth temperature and improve air quality. 

Mooted by Clr. Dr. Richard Ng, who is also the Ipoh City Councillor for Zone 14 Pasir Pinji, he wanted to make Pasir Pinji a low carbon zone by planting more trees. He hope that the people will support this effort so as to preserve our environment and help reduce carbon emission which have great impact on Climate Change by 2050.

The trees supplied by the Landscape Department are called Hopea Odorata or Merawan Siput, which is a native tree grown in Malaysian forest. It can grow up to 35m and able to absorb more than 4,600 tonnes of carbon dioxide per year.

This is tree number 23 and 24 respectively planted by Clr Dr. Richard Ng and Tuan SM Ramlee Bin Isa.

 

Green Our Earth, Save Our Future Generations - Tree Planting Programme at Kinta Heights on 22 April 2021

April 19 2021: Lions Club of Perak Silver State and Ipoh City Watch will jointly organise the Tree Planting programme in conjunction with World Earth Day on 22 April 2021 starting at 8.30am.

The programme is supported by Ipoh City Council as part of its objective of planting 1,500 trees this year. This is also part of the Perak State aspiration of planting 100 million trees in Malaysia in 5 years.

Four trees will be planted here to provide shade to senior citizen. This is in addition to the 29 trees already been planted here by Ipoh City Council since it was build 30 years ago giving a total of 33 trees.

The tree planting effort forms part of World Earth Day 2021 with the theme "Restore Our Earth". We want our future generations to enjoy the natural environment besides helping to lower earth temperature so as to prevent disaster and hardship to poorly who are expected to be badly affected by serious impact of climate change in 30 years time. 

YB Sivasubramaniam A/L Athinarayanan, State Assemblyman for Buntong is our guest of honour. Also present include Clr Mohamad Iskandar Abdul Rahman who will also plant a tree. The other two trees will be planted by Clr. Dr. Richard Ng, who is also the President of Lions Club of Perak Silver State and Ipoh City Watch and Datuk Dr. Denison Jeyasooria, Head of the All-Party Parliamentary Group Malaysia (APPGM) Secretariat on sustainable development goals.

These trees planted will be given a QR code with serial number as follows:

Tree  # 1

Tree Serial Number: LCPSS-MBI/ 019/04/21

Family Name: Caesalpinia ferrea now known as Libidibia ferrea or Brazilian Iron Wood

Genus: Libidibia

Common Name: Brazilian Iron Wood

Height: 15m to 25m

Planted by: Clr. Dr. Richard Ng, Ipoh City Councillor cum President of Lions Club of Perak Silver State and President of Ipoh City Watch

Date Planted: 22 April 2021

Place: Pangsapuri Kinta Heights, Ipoh, Perak

Programme name: Green Our Earth Save Our Future Generations / World Earth Day 2021

Tree  # 2

Tree Serial Number: LCPSS-MBI/ 020/04/21

Family Name: Caesalpinia ferrea now known as Libidibia ferrea or Brazilian Iron Tree

Genus: Libidibia

Common Name: Brazilian Iron Wood

Height: 15m to 25m

Planted by: Datuk Denision Jeyasooria, Head of the All-Party Parliamentary Group Malaysia (APPGM) Secretariat  

Date Planted: 22 April 2021

Place: Pangsapuri Kinta Heights, Ipoh, Perak

Programme name: Green Our Earth Save Our Future Generations / World Earth Day 2021

Tree  # 3

Tree Serial Number: LCPSS-MBI/ 021/04/21

Family Name: Tecoma (Bignoniaceae)

Genus: Tecoma

Common Name: Tecoma

Height: 15m to 25m

Planted by: YB Sivasubramaniam A/L Athinarayanan, State Assemblyman for Buntong 

Date Planted: 22 April 2021

Place: Pangsapuri Kinta Heights, Ipoh, Perak

Programme name: Green Our Earth Save Our Future Generations / World Earth Day 2021

Tree  # 4

Tree Serial Number: LCPSS-MBI/ 022/04/21

Family Name: Tecoma (Bignoniaceae)

Genus: 

Common Name: Tecoma

Height: 15m to 25m

Planted by: Clr. Mohamad Iskandar Abdul Rahman, Ketua Bahagian PPBM Ipoh Barat

Date Planted: 22 April 2021

Place: Pangsapuri Kinta Heights, Ipoh, Perak

Programme name: Green Our Earth Save Our Future Generations / World Earth Day 2021

Description of Caesalpinia ferrea now known as Libidibia ferrea or Brazilian Iron Wood:

Most species of Caesalpinia s.l. have poorly defined growth rings, with isolated vessels arranged in radial multiples. Pitting between vessels is alternate and covered, and fibres are generally not divided by a septum. The axial (i.e., longitudinal) parenchyma varies from a winged shape to confluent, and is irregularly storied (i.e., layered), while the rays (perpendicular to growth rings) are of variable height and generally comprise a single or double cell width.^[2] Libidibia in particular has layered longitudinal parenchyma and narrow homocellular (i.e., of uniform type) rays without crystals in the ray cells

Its wood is often used for making fingerboards for electric basses and guitars. It has a similar feel and similar tonal attributes to rosewood, but is harder and has a slightly lighter colour.^[4] The wood may also be used for flooring, fancy furniture, and handgun grips. It is also known by the names morado, palo santo, caviuna, Brazilian ironwood, and Bolivian rosewood, though it is not actually rosewood.

In guitar making, pau ferro is mainly used for fingerboards and bridges. Some luthiers also use it for the back and sides of acoustic guitars. The Brazilian guitar company Giannini uses laminated pau ferro in many of their classical guitars.^[5] Although similar in many ways to rosewood, pau ferro has slightly different qualities: Its colouration ranges from coffee brown to yellow brown and purple. The tonal characteristics are said to be between rosewood and ebony, with a slightly "snappier" sound, being "slightly brighter than rosewood but with the same depth and warmth".

Fender has utilized pau ferro on many of their instruments in recent years due to the increasing cost of rosewood due to CITES laws.^[6] The Stevie Ray Vaughan Signature Fender Stratocaster was one of the company's first instruments to feature a pau ferro fingerboard.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libidibia_ferrea

Description of Tecoma Tree:

Tecoma is a genus of 14^[3] species of shrubs or small trees in the trumpet vine family, Bignoniaceae. Twelve species are from the Americas, while the other two species are African. The American species range from the extreme southern United States through Central America and the Antilles south through Andean South America to northern Argentina. The generic name is derived from the Nahuatl word tecomaxochitl, which was applied by the indigenous peoples of Mexico to plants with tubular flowers.^[4] Trumpetbush is a common name for plants in this genus.^[5]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tecoma