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16 THE DAVEY BULLETIN | May/June 2022 6 8 4 R/C ARBOR DAY 4: NORTH AMERICAN TREE SERVICE, INC. The North American Tree Service, a Davey company, (NATS) office's Mitchell King, sales arborist, Jim Watson, district manager, and Amanda Geary, project manager, marketing, attended the Arbor Day celebration at Rocky Branch Elementary School in Bogart, Ga. King gave a short speech about the meaning of Arbor Day. "I enjoyed answering questions and gave some simple facts to the fourth and fifth grade teachers and students, a total of approximately 180-190 people. The kids were excited to receive the 200 saplings in small bags with NATS business cards attached. They kept one sapling to plant on the campus to remind them of Arbor Day and the importance of trees," King added. 6: GREENSBORO OFFICE High Point University (HPU) celebrated 13 years of receiving the Tree Campus Higher Education award, as well as their recent Level II Accreditation, awarded by The ArbNet Arboretum Accreditation Program and the Morton Arboretum, at their annual Arbor Day celebration this year. Davey was the presenting sponsor of the event, with the sponsorship managed by Scott Wyatt, district manager, Greensboro office. HPU's Mariana H. Qubein Arboretum and Botanical Gardens feature 30 gardens and 3,700 different plants, including more than 700 varieties of trees, featuring several tree collections. 8: NORTH PHILADELPHIA OFFICE Located in Doylestown, Pa., Delaware Valley University (DelVal) holds an annual A-Day event, to bring the campus and surrounding communities together for educational exhibits, food trucks and vendors, a farm and livestock show, agricultural demonstration classes, and tractor and pony rides. Originally held as a single day event in 1949 to showcase agricultural displays, the tradition continues today as a three-day event, largely organized by DelVal's students. Sales arborists from the North Philadelphia office Chris Marshall and Shane Farrell held a truck exhibit. Children were allowed to explore Davey trucks and pose for pictures. Marshall and Farrell gave away Davey branded items to attendees, answered questions and scheduled consultations with arborists from Davey. 5: LAKE BLUFF, BARRINGTON, AND GLEN ELLYN OFFICES The Lake Bluff office's sales arborists Tyler Vogel and Patrick Etherington (pictured second and third from the left in the back row; the photo was captured at the edge of the parking lot the volunteers were set up in) joined the Park District of Highland Park, Illinois, and other city foresters in Highland Park's annual Arbor Day celebration. Etherington and Vogel gave away 200 native hazelnut and buttonbush shrub saplings. The city of Highland Park handed out oak and spruce saplings, and the Park District handed out milkweed plugs. A QR code was available for the residents to scan that linked them to planting and watering instructions, the importance of using native plants, as well as Arbor Day activities for the kids. Barrington Area Conservation Trust celebrated Earth Day in Pederson Preserve. During the event, Barrington office employees Erik Barrera, trimmer, Ernesto Patino, foreman, and Jorman Quintana, trimmer trainee, planted an 800-pound bald cypress tree. Retired Davey employee Charlie Keppel led the project. Barrington office volunteers returned on Arbor Day to assist with additional plantings. The Glen Ellyn office's Nick Falkiewicz, trimmer, Kyle Omholt, assistant district manager, and Sean Zieche, district manager, hosted a truck exhibit in the village of Glen Ellyn on Arbor Day. Children were allowed to explore Davey trucks. Volunteers handed out more than 100 white pine saplings as well as sunflower seeds to the community. 5 7: HARTNEY GREYMONT The city of New Bedford, Mass. and the all-volunteer nonprofit Friends of Buttonwood Park celebrated Arbor Day in Buttonwood Park. The city's largest and most-visited park, it is home to the 7-acre Buttonwood Park Zoo. Davey employees and Massachusetts Arborists Association members volunteered at the event. Davey donated a tree crew to prune some historic beech and white oak trees around the zoo and park playground. Pictured from left, employees from the Hartney Greymont, a Davey company, Cape Cod office volunteers were Gary Meredith, foreman, Tess Eastman, trimmer trainee, Caleb Fritz, trimmer, and Steve Mercer, district manager. Not pictured, James Murphy, trimmer trainee, also attended. 7 3: EAST SAN ANTONIO OFFICE To celebrate Arbor Day, the East San Antonio office donated and planted a 15-foot bur oak tree to the Bexar County Partners for Youth and the Children and Horses Always Produce Success (CHAPS) Equine facility. CHAPS, a program for at-risk youth in an equine environment, is managed by Bexar County Juvenile Probation Department (BCJPD). The bur oak was planted by: (pictured from left) Jessica Maupin, enrichment program coordinator, BCJPD, Joey Marks, trimmer, East San Antonio office, Chuck Shouse, market manager, and Joslin Rice, site manager and enrichment coordinator, BCJPD. 3

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