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First plans for 1999 Arbor Day in Cambridge:
Arborist Larry Acosta plans to have Arbor day celebrations at elementary schools on different days.
Summerbridge students are willing to work with elementary school to teach them about trees.
Poets Richard Cambridge and Jack Powers, as well as Andy Levesque, Molly Salans, Elizabeth McKim are willing to come into the schools to bring poetry about trees as part of the elementary Arbor Days.

Poetry Contest
Ideas for Arbor Day
History of Arbor Day
State trees and date of Arbor day in various states

ARBOR DAYS IN CAMBRIDGE 1999

Join us for Arbor Day celebrations in your neighborhood school. In preparation, students are invited to participate in the Tree Scavenger Hunt and in the Poetry Contest. Prizes will be awarded. the day of Arbor Day, we will include:

Tree Care Demonstration by the Urban Forestry, Park Department of Team EAT students from Summerbridge
Proclamation for Arbor Days by Mayor/City Councillors
Scavenger Tree Hunt entries will be collected- biggest trees in neighborhood announced which were submitted by April 16
Poet will read poetry about trees and
Poems from Poetry Contest will be read
You may Adopt a Tree! Bring the address of a tree at your home, apartment, school, or local business. You will learn how to take care of the tree.

Total time is 45 min. including 5 minutes to gather and get back to classroom. The Event will occur outside the school. As soon as we have the date and time for the Arbor Day at the elementary schools we will post them here:

ARBOR DAYS in CAMBRIDGE
Join us in front of the school for a tree demo, poetry reading, collection of the Tree Scavenger Hunt entries, and the chance to "Adopt a Tree" by your home, apartment, school or business.
Monday May 3:
    Tobin noon
    Agassiz: 1:30 p.m.
Tuesday May 4
    Fitzgerald School: 9 a.m.
Wed. May 5
     Harrington School 8:45 am
     Graham & Parks School 10 a.m. Cambridgeport and Morse may join.
Tuesday May 11
     Kennedy School 8 a.m.
     Fletcher School 9 a.m. Maynard may join.
Wednesday May 12
     King noon
     Longfellow School 1:15 p.m. Maynard may join.
Thursday May 13
     Haggerty School 8:15 a.m.
     Peabody School 9:30 a.m.

Arbor Day Proclamation

Whereas, In 1872 J. Sterling Morton proposed to the Nebraska Board of Agriculture that a special day be set aside for the planting of trees, and

Whereas, this holiday, called Arbor Day, was first observed with the planting of more than a million trees in Nebraska, and

Whereas, Arbor Day is now observed throughout the nation and the world, and

Whereas, Cambridge’s City Arborist, Larry Acosta, brings with him a vision for renewed celebration of our trees and urban forest area and tree maintenance;

Whereas, Urban Forestry Department in Cambridge is involved in teaching us all how to
Take care of trees in Cambridge through demonstrations at Arbor Day, Tree Walks and Green teams with Cambridge Tree Project,

Whereas Mr. Acosta brings to Cambridge a focus on the education of children as central to the maintenance of the urban forest of the future,

Whereas Arbor Day is celebrated in Cambridge Common Saturday April 25, 1998 from 10-3 with the help of tree lovers, artists and poets, the Sycamore Centennial is celebrated at JFK Park on Memorial Drive Sunday, April 26 at 3:00 p.m. and Mount Auburn Cemetery is celebrating Arbor Day Weekend and Bird Migration Celebration Saturday and Sunday May 2 and 3 with a Tree Planting Saturday May 2 at 3 p.m.,

Whereas, trees can reduce the erosion of our precious topsoil by wind and water, cut heating and cooling costs, moderate the temperature, clean the air, produce life-giving oxygen, and provide habitat for wildlife, and

Whereas, trees are a renewable resource giving us paper, wood for our homes, fuel for our fires, and beautify our community, and

Whereas, trees, wherever they are planted, are a source of joy and spiritual renewal.

Now, Therefore,

I, Frank Duehay, Mayor of the City

of Cambridge, do hereby proclaim Saturday April 25, 1998

as the 126th anniversary celebration of Arbor Day

The plans for Arbor Day , 1997:

. Schedule of events for Arbor Day Cambridge 1997 

Scheduled events
11:00   John O'Connor: Celtic tales of trees
11:20   Richard Cambridge, poetry on trees
11:30:  Anthony Sanchez of Eagle Eye Institute Sing-Along: 
Songs about Trees
12:00:  Mayor's Proclamation on trees
12:20   More poetry reading  then singing
1:00    Tree planting and composting:
        Tales of composting: Robert Winters
2:00    Mulching of Old Oak Tree: 
2:30    Anthony Sanchez Sing-Along
3:00    Good-bye until next year

Ongoing Events:
Landscapes of the Imagination: art exhibition  at Zeitgeist 
Gallery Alan or Karen Nidle
Taking care of trees: City Arborist about choice, planting,
 feeding and pruning
Tree information tables and collecting names for those 
interested in trees: Joanna     Burnette, Cambridge Tree Project, 
has a Bending wood with steam: Mitch Ryerson: 
Photos on trees by Liz Linder
Specific projects we need help on from volunteers. Joanna 
Burnette will collect names on a sign-up sheet.
        Neighborhood contacts for information &  support of trees
        Green volunteers; Mulching and weeding trees
        Watering strategy: moveable watering tank
        Tree walks and tree assessment in local neighborhoods
Some works of Art on Trees will be for sale. Proceeds for this 
sale will be donated to the Cambridge Tree Project. 100% of 
the money will be for the planting and preservation of trees.
or before: John O'Connor reading Celtic tales on trees