|
May 4, 2006
 RAHWAY–
Representing
Mayor
James J. Kennedy,
Third Ward
Councilman Jerry Scaturo joined over 100 Roosevelt School third
graders and Principal Rocco Collucci on May 3 to celebrate Arbor
Day in Rahway with the planting of a flowering redbud tree on
school grounds and reading a proclamation about the holiday.
The tree
was provided through a generous donation from
Public Service Electric and Gas, which gave $500 to the city
for planting of utility-friendly trees. Students read the poem
“Trees” by New Jersey poet Joyce Kilmer and were given evergreen
tubelings to take home.
“Rahway
has been named ‘Tree City U.S.A.’ for several years due to our
efforts toward managing a successful urban forestry program here
in Rahway,” said Kennedy. “Thanks to the support of PSE&G and
the county’s ‘Greening Union County’ program, we have planted
over 200 street trees in Rahway since 2004 and plan to plant
another 170 trees this fall.”
Arbor Day
was first established in Nebraska in 1872 by J. Sterling Norton
and has spread to all fifty states and dozens of countries
around the globe.
The
National Arbor Day Foundation estimates that each street
tree adds $5,000 to the value of a nearby home, in addition to
reducing topsoil erosion, cleaning the air and reducing home
energy costs. |
