Davey Tree Flipbooks

6 THE DAVEY BULLETIN | May/June 2026 R/C ARBOR DAY 5: HAMDEN OFFICE A crew of Henry Perez, foreman; Ruben Mendoza, trimmer; and Jose Jimenez, foreman, along with coordination from Megan Joseph, sales arborist, planted a Red Bud at Branford Community House. After the planting, the fourth-grade student council from the local public school came out to welcome the new tree to the community. The group talked about Arbor Day, community, and kindness, painted rocks around the tree with words and symbols representing kindness, and each student took home a sapling. 3: EAST SAN ANTONIO OFFICE For the sixth Earth Day during his time with Davey, Jess Divin, district manager, helped the City of New Braunfels, Texas, pass out 1,760 one-gallon trees consisting of red, lacy, and bur oaks, mulberries, pawpaw, wild plum, western soapberry, sycamore, American elm, Texas buckeye, Mexican buckeye, bald cypress and flameleaf sumac. Throughout the year, he helped a local planter collect seeds from local trees and shrubs, weed the tree pots and move and water tree pots to make this happen. 1: BOSTON NORTH SHORE OFFICE Travis Grace, plant health care technician, performed an application of beech leaf disease treatments as a donation to Endicott Wildlife Sanctuary in Wenham, Massachusetts. Samuel Craig, trimmer; Misael Flores, foreman; and Chris Reardon, trimmer, donated a day of tree work on Moraine Farm, a historic Frederick Law Olmsted estate, completing structural pruning on a large oak and some white pines. 2: Johnny O'Neal, assistant district manager, visited his alma mater, North Andover High School, where he, Samuel Craig, trimmer, and Chris Reardon, trimmer, worked with staff and students on the school's Green Team to plant a scarlet oak. The school is a part of a program that takes food waste from the cafeteria and creates compost, which the crew used in the planting. O'Neal also demonstrated to the students how to properly plant a tree. Maggie Graves, sales arborist trainee, accompanied the Manchester Friends of Trees to an Arbor Day celebration at Manchester Memorial Elementary School, where she walked a fifth-grade class through planting a sugar maple. The class also took home some bare root maple saplings to plant in their backyards. 3 CHARLOTTE OFFICE Sales arborists Hunter Campbell and Matt Tovey, along with Leah Shertzer, sales arborist, and Dan Gillen, district manager, planted a red maple tree with first graders at Peabody School in Charlottesville, Virginia, and handed out tree saplings for students of all ages to take home. 2 4: EASTERN SHORE OFFICE Kevin Schroeder, Sr., sales arborist, supervised fourth and fifth-grade students from Galena Elementary School's Green Team during a planting of a weeping cherry tree in the town's park. After the planting, Schroeder, also the town's Park and Tree Committee chairman, gave a presentation to the students about the history and importance of Arbor Day. 5 6: NORTH PHILADELPHIA OFFICE Shane Farrell, assistant district manager, discusses the importance of planting and caring for trees with 200 first and fifth-grade students from Goodnoe Elementary School in Newtown, Pennsylvania. Davey also donated 200 eastern red cedar seedlings that were passed out to students. 1 4 6

• Cover