The sponsor-bearing tree plaques found at the base of the jacaranda trees throughout Point Loma Village have showcased community members for the past 40 years. The Point Loma Association (PLA) is now looking to add to the roster of community icons and loved ones with a reinvigorated tree-plaque project. “When you’re down there walking around in the village, you see a chain of history in the community,” said PLA member Robert Tripp Jackson. “It’s kind of neat and with this latest effort we’re just really enhancing that.” The PLA hopes to outfit all of the existing jacaranda and gold medallion trees on Cañon and Rosecrans streets with 5-by-7-inch plaques as part of the campaign. Jackson said there are about 50 trees in the area that are currently without plaques. “Basically what we’re doing is the people who are interested go down, pick out a tree, we mark it and then we’ll have the plaque made and then installed [with their names or the names of a loved one],” Jackson said. Proceeds from the $350 bronze plaques will support the PLA and their various beautification projects within the community. Many of the trees in Point Loma Village were actually planted by the PLA. “Every Friday, the Beautification Committee of the association goes out and works throughout the community,” Jackson said. “To find funding and budgeting for these enhancement projects is often difficult.” For more information, call (619) 987-1970, or visit www.plaweb.org.