Litchfield Park employees teamed up with West Coast Arborists, the city’s tree maintenance company to plant a tree in observance of Arbor Day, April 24.
The holiday held the last Friday in …
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Litchfield Park plants a tree for Arbor Day
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Arbor Day ... which has already
transplanted itself ... to every state in
the American Union and has even been
adopted in foreign lands … is not like
other holidays. Each of those reposes
on the past, while Arbor Day proposes
for the future.”
Arbor Day founder J. Sterling Morton, courtesy of ArborDay.org
Litchfield Park employees teamed up with West Coast Arborists, the city’s tree maintenance company, to plant a tree in observance of Arbor Day, April 24.
The holiday held the last Friday in April was founded in 1872 by J. Sterling Morton, a Nebraska City, Nebraska, newspaper editor and nature lover who served as President Grover Cleveland’s secretary of agriculture from 1893-97.
City Manager Bill Stephens and Assistant City Manager Matthew Williams joined city Public Works employees and a crew from WCA of Glendale led by Area Manager Justin Menzel to plant the Chinese elm at Camelback Park, a 4.3-acre greenspace and play area at 1185 N. Villa Nueva Drive.
WCA donated the tree, as well as a stool made from a fallen tree.
“We were really surprised” to receive the stool, which will be kept at the Public Works office, Mr. Stephens said.
