Rooting for change: Climate-focused pep rally brings Maryvale community together (opens in new tab)

This past weekend in the West Phoenix community of Maryvale, a brass band blared, Maryvale High School cheerleaders and a theater troupe fired up the crowd, and a pair of young trees rolled through the celebration on a cart, pulled by a miniature horse that was welcomed like a hometown hero.This was not a football game.It was a pep rally — for trees.