Auburn University's plan to renovate Toomer's Corner by planting two new oak trees will come to a head on Valentine's Day morning.
According to AL.com, the planting ceremony will start at 7:30 a.m. with the closure of multiple downtown roads so fans can watch. Two 35-foot tall oaks will be driven in on flatbed trucks to replace the ones that had to be removed in 2013.
An Auburn football tradition, the oaks are "rolled" (covered in toilet paper) during times of celebration. The school requested the practice be abstained from until the fall 0f 2016 so the trees can take root.
"We are partnering with the City of Auburn to make this a special day," Mike Clardy, director of university communications, said in a statement. "Downtown merchants will be open early and three of Auburn's athletic teams will be in action that day. We are hoping people will come to the Plains and make a weekend out of it."
A 62-year-old Alabama Crimson Tide fan named Harvey Updyke Jr. was charged with a class C felony of criminal mischief for poisoning the oaks in Jan. 2011. He was arrested the following month and agreed to a plea deal in which he was banned from college sporting events, Auburn's campus and from speaking to the media.
Auburn tried to have the oak's restored, but ultimately had to cut them down in April 2013. The school announced the plan to plant two new oaks in Nov. 2014.
