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THE DAVEY BULLETIN
DAVEY JOINS GIRL SCOUTS FOR SPARK DAY
Davey joined the Girl Scouts of Greater Chicago and
Northwest Indiana for Spark Day, an educational event with
activities centered around trees. The event was held at
Camp Greene Wood in Naperville, Illinois.
Fifty local Girl Scouts and their families joined Tony Brugger,
assistant district manager, Naperville offi ce; Jessica
McCarthy, sales arborist, South Chicago offi ce; Pete Ritenour,
sales arborist, Naperville offi ce; and Charles Shonts,
district manager, Naperville offi ce, along with his daughter,
Davey employees
are pictured with
the Girl Scouts
on Spark Day.
Tom Anderson, district manager,
Buffalo offi ce, joined seventh grade
students at Franklin Middle School in
planting an American sycamore tree
sapling at the school's playground in
Buffalo, New York in late spring.
The sapling, an Artemis I Moon Tree,
was grown from one of 50 seeds
that traveled to the moon on National
DISTRICT MANAGER PLANTS 'MOON TREE' WITH STUDENTS
Aeronautics and Space Administration's
(NASA) unmanned Orion spacecraft
Artemis I mission in November 2022.
"Everyone was really excited about it,"
Anderson said. "There were a lot of
people in the community there as well
as the local news. It was a happy story,
and it was nice to be involved with it."
Tom Anderson assisted students in
planting this American sycamore tree sapling,
an Artemis I Moon Tree. Anderson gave
the students advice on how to properly
plant and take care of the tree, and the
students assisted him by shoveling dirt and
fi lling the hole.
STEWARDSHIP
Gabby Shonts, to learn about native trees and invasive
species, experience a limb-walking simulation, and plant
a tree. The scouts earned a special Davey Tree patch for
their participation.
"During a workshop like this, I enjoy seeing the
transformation in confi dence from the beginning of the day
to the end of the day," McCarthy said. "The Girl Scouts tried
things that take them out of their comfort zone, and you
can watch that instant, small moment of personal growth."
Fifteen years ago, Davey supported the 40th anniversary of the 1969 moon landing "Celebrate
Apollo: Exploring the Moon, Discovering Earth" event at the Smithsonian National Air and Space
Museum in Washington, D.C., by partnering with American Forests to provide attendees with
a seed kit. The kits contained seeds from sycamore trees that had grown from seeds taken to
the moon and back by NASA astronaut Stuart Roosa in 1971 during the Apollo 14 mission.
Roosa, a former U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest
Services smoke jumper, was the command module pilot
for Apollo 14, and carried the original tree seeds into
lunar orbit on that mission.
Today, the NASA Artemis Program is a nod to the legacy
of the 1971 Apollo 14 mission, and a celebration of the
future of space exploration, according to NASA.gov.
MOON LANDING ANNIVERSARY ATTENDEES RECEIVED SEED KIT
