Wednesday, May 12, 2021
Area residents turned out to Exeters city park recently in celebration of Arbor Day. The city of Exeter has been a member of the Arbor Day Foundations Tree City USA program since 1996.
During the celebration, the Exeter Tree Board was presented with the Tree City USA 25 year award by Jon Skinner, urban forester from the Missouri Department of Conservation.
In attendance for the event were: Sheila Raney, Exeter Tree Board president; Jennifer Taylor; Kirk Wynns, municipal arborist; Skinner; and Ashley Lowe, Tree Board vice president.
Taylor is the daughter of Wynns and served as a volunteer during the citys first few years of planting while she was in high school. She returned to Exeter for the presentation.
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Louisville officials mark Tree City USA status
The Alliance Review
With masks and social distancing on display, Louisville marked Arbor Day with a recent ceremony during which a buckeye tree was dedicated in the city’s Wilson Park.
City officials worked around the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic for a ceremony that helped to celebrate the spring season’s spirit of rebirth.
The city has been designated as a Tree City USA by the Arbor Day Foundation. To achieve the status, more than 3,400 American cities have satisfied requirements set by the foundation.
Arbor Day is a national day of honor for living things, created in the late 1800s, when American settlers were venturing west to occupy more of America’s lands.
Jamestown Parks Department Awarded $31,000 Tree Inventory & Management Grant
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Parks Manager
Dan Stone said the grant is to update the street tree inventory, “We had applied for and received a grant to update our street tree inventory. It was originally a $50,000 grant, non-matching, so that way it doesn’t really cost the city any money, through the Urban Forestry program at the DEC. And that will allow us to better manage and maintain and keep track of our urban forest here in the city.”
Stone said the City had previously received a $25-thousand dollar grant in 2018 to update the tree inventory in Wards one through 3. He said he hoped to complete the rest of the wards in this round.
The Destin Log
The shovels were a bit big, but children from Noah’s Ark Pre-School grabbed hold anyhow and tossed dirt on the trees planted at the Nancy Weidenhammer Dog Park in Destin on Thursday morning.
The tree planting was part of the city of Destin’s annual Arbor Day Celebration.
The trees for this year s event were donated by Compass Resorts, the Destin Chamber of Commerce s Destin Forward Class of 2021 and Trees on the Coast.
“It’s a good little field trip for the kids,” said Angela Hayles, a teacher at Noah’s Ark.
The staff walked the children over from the school on Indian Bayou Drive just around the corner from the dog park.