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Neighbors | Alexis Bartolomucci.Fourth-grade students at Robinwood Lane Elementary listened to members of the Boardman Lions Club about Arbor Day on April 28.
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Neighbors | Submitted.Robinwood Lane Elementary student Alaura Malich planted the tree she got from the Boardman Lions on April 28 and named it Perry.
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Neighbors | Alexis Bartolomucci.Fourth-grade Robinwood Lane students Jimmy Carkido and Kyra Milano stood with members of .the Boardman Lions Club, Joni Blase, Kristen Dailey and Kathy Collins after the Arbor Day presentation on April 28.
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Neighbors | Alexis Bartolomucci.Robinwood Lane fourth-grade students learned about Arbor Day and how to care for a tree they received from the Boardman Lions Club on April 28.
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Neighbors | Alexis Bartolomucci.Joni Blase and Kristen Dailey explained how to plant and take care of their trees to the fourth-grade Robinwood students.
By ALEXIS BARTOLOMUCCI
The Boardman Lions Club introduced the fourth-grade students of Boardman elementary schools to the Fourth-Grade Foresters program on April 28.
Kathy Collins, member of the Boardman Lions Club, talked to the students about the history of Arbor Day and how it came about. Arbor Day began in 1872 - 145 years ago - in the state of Nebraska.
Collins referenced the book “The Lorax,” by Dr. Seuss about the importance of trees in everyday life. The book also showed how so many people cut down so many trees for personal use, that they need to constantly replant trees to keep up with the loss.
“In your lifetime, growing through all the paper and wood products, you’re going to use four great, big trees in your lifetime,” Collins told the students.
The Fourth-Grade Foresters program was created to provide a simple way to give the students a tree of their own to plant and care for. It helps the improve the environment that the students are growing up in.
At the end of the presentation, all of the students were given a tree, courtesy of the Boardman Lions Club, to take home and plant. Planting the trees is a simple, easy and inexpensive way to help improve the community.
Boardman Lions Club members Joni Blase and Kristen Dailey talked to the students about how to care for their trees. They told them how the trees need to be planted, watered and taken care of to grow into a big, healthy tree.
The Boardman Lions Club annual event is in it’s seventh year and continues to be a growing success.