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Happy Arbor Day, Wellesley

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Wellesley Rotary Club bags 400 Arbor Day saplings in record time

 

For the  past twenty years thanks to the Wellesley Rotary Club, every fourth grader in Wellesley has been given a tree to plant at home in honor of Arbor Day, which this year falls on Friday, April 28.

Suzy Jordan, Wellesley Town Horticultural technician, earlier this month led 15 volunteers in bagging 400 Sweet Gum saplings with dirt in plastic bags for distribution to the students. If this jogs your memory and you’re suddenly recalling a tree in your yard planted ages ago by your child, send us a picture. We’d love to show everyone how it’s coming along.

Volunteers gathered at the Department of Public Works, 30 Municipal Way to bag Sweet Gum saplings for distribution to Wellesley’s fourth graders. Judy Gertler, Raina McManus, Hartney Greymont’s Pat Boyle and Kevin Nardonne joined Rotary members Susan Bevilacqua, Cynthia Sibold, Fred Wright, Vin Spoto, Vin Juliani, Tom DeRiemer, Bill Westerman, Michael Price, Paul Simard, John Adams and Frank Rowbotham in setting a new record in bagging the trees in under 50 minutes, smashing the previous record of well over an hour.

 

Suzy Jordan, Wellesley Town Horticultural technician (upper left) with fourth-graders, showing off their saplings.
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