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A dozen kids in Nicole Camel’s eighth-grade WEB class gathered at Boettcher Park Friday to plant a trio of flowering cherry trees. The Polson Middle School students are continuing a pre-pandemic tradition of planting trees in city parks on Arbor Day.
It’s mostly big old trees, grass, and the swish and murmur of Flathead Lake in the background at the eastern end of Boettcher Park. That’s why Suz Rittenhouse chose to put a Telephone of the Wind there.
On a sunny Arbor Day, 20 Polson Middle School students traipsed to O’Malley Park to plant a trio of purple robe locust trees, under the supervision of Polson Parks and Recreation employees.