Clinton students celebrate Arbor Day
North Clinton Elementary students and staff, Clinton Tree Board members, city officials, and other guests are shown with the Shumard oak tree they planted on the NCES campus as part of the city’s 2023 Arbor Day celebration.
Students participated in the event by exhibiting artwork, reading poems, and sharing short essays about trees.
Diane Warwick, Tennessee Division of Forestry (retired), presented the city with its 2022 Tree City USA award from the National Arbor Day Society. This is the seventh consecutive year that Clinton has earned recognition as a Tree City USA.
Finally, Vice Mayor Larry Gann officially proclaimed Oct. 19 as Arbor Day in the city of Clinton.
The group then moved outside where the students helped plant an oak tree in honor of Arbor Day.
Tim West, Tree Board member and CUB arborist, spoke to the students about careers in the tree care industry, and supervised the planting of the tree.
The Tree City USA program was founded in 1976 to celebrate towns and cities committed to growing their urban canopies.
There are more than 3,600 Tree Cities across the U.S.
To receive recognition, a community must form a tree board or department, establish a tree-care ordinance, maintain a community forestry program with an annual budget of at least $2 per capita, and proclaim and observe Arbor Day.