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20 THE DAVEY BULLETIN | May/June 2024 ARBOR DAY 1: FOUR SEASONS TREE CARE, A DAVEY COMPANY, AND TORONTO NORTHWEST RESIDENTIAL OFFICE Pictured from left are Conor Foley, crew leader, Kyle Bowler, climber, and Tim Lebel, groundperson, from Four Seasons Tree Care. They were joined by Matt Colangelo, foreman, and Justin Kay, climber, from the Toronto Northwest Residential office, to conduct hazardous tree removals and pruning around the Woodland Trails Scout Camp in Whitchurch-Stouffville, Ontario for Arbor Day, organized by the Ontario Commercial Arborists Association. CANADA RESIDENTIAL 2: LONDON RESIDENTIAL OFFICE Pictured from the left are Eli Meloche, climber, Jason Sawyer, crew leader, Tim Holley, district manager, and Josh MacDonald, PHC technician. The crew volunteered their pruning and fertilization services at the Ronald McDonald House Charities Southwestern Ontario in London, Ontario for Arbor Day. 3: MUSKOKA NORTH RESIDENTIAL OFFICE Pictured from left are Derrick Pierre, foreman, Ian McLean, groundperson, Mitchell Everett, district manager, Josh Fournier, groundperson, Jarod Long, groundperson, Hunter Bowers, climber, Scott Torrance, climber, and Nick Freely, groundperson. At Fish Hatchery Park in Utterson, Ontario, the crew had bucket trucks, a chip truck, a chipper all-terrain vehicle, and a defender on tracks for students from Watt Public School to look at. Bowers also demonstrated climbing and pruning a white pine tree. Students asked the crew questions about trees and equipment, and they received Norway spruce tree seed kits and biannual flower seed packets to take home. When the students left, the crew trimmed and removed dead trees and put 35 yards of wood chips down the walking trail. 1 2 3 4 4: VICTORIA RESIDENTIAL OFFICE Theodore Waite, district manager, joined Township of Esquimalt community members and the Greater Victoria Green Team in revitalizing 550 square meters of Highrock Cairn Park. They removed 19 cubic meters of invasive Himalayan blackberry shrubs for Esquimalt's Earth Day celebration in Esquimalt, British Columbia. DAVEY TREE SURGERY COMPANY AND DRG UTILITY VEGETATION MANAGEMENT Southern California Edison (SCE) trimming account Surgery Company employees Alberto Abrego, general foreman, Abelardo Contreras, general foreman, Oscar Escarcega, safety coordinator (helping a child zip up their safety vest), Wendoly Guerrero, work planner, Zoe Jacobson, supervisor, and Sherwood Sanz, coordinator, along with Davey Resource Group (DRG) UVM technicians Noemi Esparza, Daisy Loera and Annabel Rossi, were invited by SCE to attend the City of Whittier's 40th annual Arbor Day celebration on March 14th at Penn Park in Whittier, California. They set up a pop-up tent with Davey merchandise for the Hoover Elementary first graders that attended, and SCE provided oak, willow, crape myrtle, and Carolina cherry tree saplings that they could transplant into small pots and take home. In addition, Jacobson and Loera, along with Lucas Lagola, project manager, UVM, DRG, and Daine Willis, safety coordinator, SCE trimming account, attended a residential tree giveaway event hosted by SCE at Magic Johnson Park in Los Angeles, California. Davey and SCE employees assisted residents who had questions about planting and caring for the trees they received, which were strawberry, eastern redbud, desert willow, and Indian rosewood trees. UTILITY 1: CLEVELAND EAST TERRITORY Kyle Smedi, account manager (on the far left), collaborated with the Davey Nursery to donate a celebration maple tree to the Akron-Summit County Public Library Green Branch in Green, Ohio. The tree was planted on Arbor Day, and the mayor of Green recognized Davey for their efforts and donation. 1 2: DAVEY BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT TEAM AND COMMERCIAL LANDSCAPE SERVICES Herb Landmann, project manager, Davey BDT (in the white hardhat), and Mark Nielsen, operations manager, CLS, planted a sycamore tree and blueberry shrubs with Bronx, New York, community members at Woodlawn Cemetery & Conservancy's annual Earth Day celebration. In addition, students Landmann teaches from Woodlawn's Landscape Restoration Program assisted Woodlawn staff by planting a white oak tree near American novelist Herman Melville's gravesite. 2 CLS

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