City of Gardens to provide seedlings to teachers for Arbor Day celebration

Staff Report

In celebration of Arbor Day, the Rockford Park District’s City of Gardens will provide white pine seedlings to interested teachers to distribute to their classrooms. Seedlings will be given out on a first-come, first-served basis and will be available for pick-up between 8:30 a.m. and 5 p.m., Thursday, April 28, at the Rockford Park District’s Webbs Norman Center at 401 S. Main St., Rockford.

“Let’s Get Growing” is a series of events offered by the Rockford Park District’s City of Gardens program. The City of Gardens mission is to provide community-wide enhancement of public and private places to create a beautiful, healthy and safe environment in which to live, work and play.

For more information, contact Clayton Guler at (815) 987-8888 or Ruth Miller at (815) 987-1689 or e-mail ruthmiller@rockfordparkdistrict.org.

From the April 27-May 3, 2011 issue