The Black Rock Garden Club and the Black Rock School’s Student Garden Club are pleased to announce a very special Arbor Day celebration to be held at the school on 545 Brewster Street at 10 AM on April 27, 2007. The event is to proclaim the First Annual Black Rock Arbor Day. The program will include presentations by elected officials, school personnel, the students’ Garden Club, and the Black Rock Garden Club. There will be a tree planting ceremony to commemorate the special day. The Black Rock Garden Club was awarded grants by RYASAP and the International Society of Arboriculture to fund the event.

The Proclamation will state that the 27th day of April, 2007, will be the first Annual Black Rock Arbor Day, and additionally, that on each last Friday of April, Black Rock, as a community, shall celebrate Arbor Day for years to come. 

The Black Rock Garden Club, students, and faculty of the school have worked to develop this Arbor Day program into an annual community event. In addition, the grants will allow the students to receive educational materials for the school’s newly formed garden club’s activities. The goal is to create an educational garden on the school grounds which students will maintain, demonstrating composting, food crop cultivation, and hands-on participation in the care and growth of trees. The program will underline the significance of trees as an essential component of a healthy environment.

A portion of the new garden will become a miniature working tree nursery.  Donations of tree saplings, perennials and garden plants have been secured to insure the area will be sustained for future classes. Trees grown in the nursery will be planted in the community, donated to students, and used in future Arbor Day events. 

Both Garden Clubs invite those interested to attend. For more information call 203-576-1123.

ARBOR DAY PROCLAMATION

CITY OF BRIDGEPORT

Whereas:  In 1872, J. Sterling Morton proposed that a special day be set aside for the planting of trees to recognize their importance to our society and to our quality of life, and the holiday known as Arbor Day was first celebrated with the planting of more than one million trees in the state of Nebraska, its birth place;

Whereas:  Arbor Day is now officially observed throughout our nation on this, the last Friday of April;

Whereas:  All citizens of a community benefit from its trees, the urban forest must hold a place of high esteem in the hearts and minds of its members and elected officials. Private citizens, the young and old alike, bear the responsibility of maintaining and renewing this precious resource;

Whereas:  As a grateful community, we recognize that trees cleanse the air we breathe, enhance the beauty of our neighborhoods, increase the value of our properties, and standing in silence, they provide shelter from the summer sun and the winter’s winds;

BE IT THEREFORE RESOLVED, I, John M. Fabrizi, Mayor of the City of Bridgeport, do hereby proclaim this, the 27^th day of April, 2007, the first annual Black Rock Arbor Day, and additionally that on each last Friday of April, we as a community shall celebrate Arbor Day for years to come.

Given this 27^th day of April in the Year 2007

to

Black Rock School and the Black Rock Garden Club

by

 

John M. Fabrizi, Mayor of Bridgeport

 

I urge all citizens of this community and the entire city to celebrate Arbor Day and support the efforts to protect and preserve our urban forest for subsequent generations.

Further, I urge all citizens to plant and care for the trees of our city understanding that the trees we plant today are not solely for our enjoyment but for the enjoyment, health and well-being of generations to come.

Recall the words from an Arbor Day speech given in1907; they remain true to the day:

It is well that you should celebrate your Arbor Day thoughtfully, for within your lifetime the nation's need of trees will become serious. We of an older generation can get along with what we have, though with growing hardship; but in your full manhood and womanhood you will want what nature once so bountifully supplied and man so thoughtlessly destroyed; and because of that want, you will reproach us, not for what we have used, but for what we have wasted.

Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States.

Remember on this day our state motto, “Qui transtulit sustinet”, “He who transplanted still sustains.”

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