Arbor Day at OECSD

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2008
Oppenheim-Ephratah Central School
Our 18th Annual Celebration!
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a holiday that celebrates the future!
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Julius Sterling Morton Founder of Arbor
Day Nebraska April 10, 1872
The cultivation of trees is the cultivation of
the good, the beautiful, and the ennobling in
man. J. Sterling Morton
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• New York 
• Last Friday in April
• Sugar Maple

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He that plants trees loves others beside
himself. Thomas Fuller English
Clergyman, Author, and Wit
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Dedication
Mrs. Weaver
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He who plants a tree plants a hope. Lucy
Larcom
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Dedication
Mrs. Sargalis
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To exist as a nation, to prosper as a state,
and to live as a people, we must have
trees. Theodore Roosevelt American
President
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Dedication
Ms. Vavra
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http//www.arborday.org
Balsam Fir (Abies balsamea)
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How To Plant Trees

• Bare Root Trees
• Balled Burlapped Trees
• Containerized Trees

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Trees may be the most important and useful plants
on earth. They provide us with oxygen we need
to breath water that is vital to all living
things food for both animals and
people wood that we depend on for our daily
lives the oasis of shade on a steamy, summer
day!
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We do not inherit the Earth from our parents
we borrow it from our children!
Old Indian Adage