Boardman students get lesson, gift on Arbor Day

BOARDMAN

Nearly 400 students in the township came home from school Friday with new additions for their yards and instructions on how to make them take root.

To mark Arbor Day, the Boardman Lions Club visited fourth-graders at Stadium Drive, Robinwood Lane, Market Street, West Boulevard and St. Charles elementary schools and sent them home with trees to plant as part of its participation in the “Fourth Grade Foresters” program.

“You’re now at the age where you can be responsible. ... You can take care of this earth,” Dave Green of the Lions Club told students at Market Street. “It takes one tree at a time. We’re hoping you take them home, plant them and help make the world a better place.”

Along with saplings, students got a lesson on the history of Arbor Day, including the role of children in helping to plant millions of trees around the country.

Read more about the event in Saturday's Vindicator or on Vindy.com.