Education 27 April 2015

Arbor Day observed with first-graders on April 24

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Approximately 170 first-graders in the Greenfield Exempted Village School District were given redbud seedlings as part of Greenfield’s Arbor Day Observance on April 24, and trees were planted at two nursing homes in Greenfield as well.

Greenfield Council Chair Betty Jackman, who is also a member of the Tree Commission, Greenfield staff member Holly Ellinger and City Manager Ron Coffey visited first-graders at Buckskin, Rainsboro and Greenfield Elementary Schools to give the students redbud seedlings and talk about the importance of trees, which provide many benefits and help beautify the community.

Trees are a renewable resource and provide food and shelter for many types of wildlife. Trees give off oxygen, produce tasty fruit and a cooling shade canopy.

The history of Arbor Day dates to April 1872 in Nebraska City, Neb., when J. Sterling Morton encouraged the planting of trees. As a result, approximately a million trees were planted in Nebraska.

In 1907, President Theodore Roosevelt issued an Arbor Day proclamation to the school children of the United States, pointing out the importance of trees and encouraging the teaching of forestry.

For more on the benefits of trees visit this link:
http://www.arborday.org/trees/index-benefits.cfm



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