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Hancock Bank’s ‘Perseverance Oaks’ project nurtures Future opportunities for communities, children Hancock Bank recently launched “Perseverance Oaks.” The multi-year, multifaceted partnership will help replenish live oak populations, primarily with offspring of genetically superior landmark live oaks, in Gulf Coast communities hit by major storms. The 500-year-old Friendship Oak, majestic centerpiece of the University of Southern Mississippi (USM) Gulf Park campus in Long Beach, produced the first Perseverance Oaks to go in the ground. Hancock Bank executives, project partners Mississippi State University Coastal Research and Extension Center and The Sun Herald, and USM and community leaders planted three Friendship Oak saplings in each of two sprawling Coast green spaces, the Long Beach Town Green and Gulfport’s waterfront Jones Park.
Elementary school students from Long Beach and students from Gaston Point Elementary School in Gulfport attended the Perseverance Oaks treeplantings in their respective cities. They also participated in Class in the Grass, an outdoor financial education series that is part of the live oak program and designed to help students learn how to save for and grow future financial Perseverance Oaks partners plant saplings of the security and success. Hancock Holding Company Presi- mighty Friendship Oak in Long Beach’s Town Green to launch the multi-year, multi-phase project. dent and CEO John Hairston said the tree-plantings showed the first signs “One day, these students’ grandchilof this long-term effort to help preserve, dren may play beneath the branches of green, and grow the local landscape for the trees we plant today. We hope they future generations. He and the bank’s as- will be as awed and inspired by the adult sociates hope Perseverance Oaks saplings trees as we are by the Friendship Oak and will grow and thrive with local communi- other live oaks across our footprint,” he ties and young people. told event guests.
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