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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
April 27, 2004
Arbor Day Festivities To Be Held April
30
Public Invited To Celebrate "Trees
Are Terrific In Cities And Towns"
Rochester, MN—As the weather warms and
signs of spring appear, RPU and Maier Forest
and Tree will celebrate Arbor Day 2004 on Friday,
April 30 at Peace Plaza and Gage Elementary
in Rochester.
The day’s festivities will begin at Peace
Plaza in downtown Rochester. From 11 a.m.-1
p.m., Mayor Ardell Brede will speak, tree seedlings
from the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources
(DNR) will be available free to the first 300
people, lunch of hotdogs and soda will be provided,
the Paul Mayasich Trio will provide music, and
Whiting's Nursery will give away 500 bare-root
crab apple trees. Information on tree planting
and city forestry will be on display.
At 2 p.m., the activity will move to Gage Elementary,
where this year's tree planting ceremony
will take place. Demarie Kapler, a fifth-grader
at Gage, is the 2004 elementary poster contest
winner. Kapler’s poster will be the logo
for the 2005 Arbor Day celebration.
The Arbor Day celebration is sponsored by RPU
and Maier Forest and Tree. Also participating
in the celebration will be the DNR, Whiting's
Nursery and Rochester Park and Recreation.
The scheduled rain date is May 7.
Partners in Planting, RPU's new offering
to encourage tree planting for conservation,
is sponsored by Maier Forest and Tree, Rochester
Area Foundation, Committee for Urban Design
and Environment, and Whiting's, Sargent's
and Willow Creek Nurseries. |
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