Mtn. View Garden Club celebrates Arbor Day

On April 9 the Mountain View Garden Club celebrated Arbor Day with fifth grade students at Mountain View Elementary. Each year the staff at the Missouri Department of Conservation Twin Pines Education Center, located in Winona, Mo., prepare and deliver 100 native trees to the school to be given to the students and staff. This year the tree was the Downy Serviceberry tree. Club President Robi Tanner introduced Mayor Charry McCann who read the Arbor Day Declaration. She was followed by Wendy Lott, a Naturalist from Twin Pines, who spent a half hour talking about the reason there is an Arbor Day, the importance of trees to the community, and the part trees play in everyone's daily life. She talked about the Down Serviceberry tree that the students would be taking home, and how to plant and care for it. A lively question and answer period ended the presentation.