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Contact: Sherry MacDonald
Phone: (703) 736-9666
E-mail: sherrymacdonald@landcarenetwork.org

For Immediate Release

NEW PLANET AEF AMBASSADOR ANNOUNCED

HERNDON, Va., February 1, 2008 — The Professional Landcare Network (PLANET) is pleased to announce that Bermuda-based Sousa’s Landscape Management Co., Ltd., in honor of its 20-year membership with the association, and the Sousa Family pledged $25,000 to the PLANET Academic Excellence Foundation (PLANET AEF) scholarship fund. This contribution distinguishes them as a PLANET AEF Ambassador and entitles them to name and establish the criteria for their scholarship.

The PLANET AEF scholarship fund was formed to award scholarships and fund educational activities for the green industry. Promoting and advancing the lawn and landscape services industry by supporting academic excellence is the Foundation’s mission. To date Foundation assets total more than $2 million.

“It is truly my honor to be an Ambassador,” says Sousa’s Landscape Management President Jeff Sousa. He explains, “In 1988, I left my lovely island home of Bermuda and ventured to my first Green Industry Conference. There is no doubt in my mind that making that trip in 1988 and joining the Associated Landscape Contractors of America (ALCA), a PLANET legacy association, was one of the best business decisions I have ever made. I owe so much to ALCA/PLANET.”

In existence for more than 20 years, Sousa’s has evolved into a premier full-service landscape company with specialists in high-end landscape design/build, irrigation, and horticultural maintenance, and the only one-stop-shop design/build landscape company in Bermuda. “I am so proud that today our company is the largest landscape management company in our island’s history,” exclaims Sousa.

For more information about the PLANET AEF scholarship fund, please contact Cheryl Claborn at (800) 395-2522 or e-mail cherylclaborn@landcarenetwork.org, or visit LandcareNetwork.org.

PLANET is the association of members who create and maintain the QUALITY OF LIFE in communities across America. With more than 4,200 member companies and affiliates, these firms and their employees represent more than 100,000 green industry professionals.