September/October 2017 | The Davey Bulletin 27
"
Safety is a huge part of the job. We have a meeting every
Friday to discuss safety with the team. They really preach
safety here at Davey, which I appreciate. I pass on what I
learn to the guys. When I see someone without safety glass-
es on, I'll remind them the importance of PPE."
— Tom Swartz
mechanic, Kent Shop
Kent, Ohio
OWNER'S BOX
'HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU'
Elementary school students from Weston, Massachusetts, sang
"Happy Birthday" to a newly planted sugar maple tree on Arbor Day.
"They spontaneously broke out into singing happy birthday to this tree,"
Russell Holman, sales arborist with the Hartney Greymont, a Davey
company, Concord office, said.
Holman inserted the planting he did with the students into their lesson
about making maple sugar. He worked with Woodland and Country
Elementary Schools in Weston.
Russell Holman spoke to the students about
the basic biology of trees, parts of the trees
and the students' connection to them.
Three Cleveland select pear trees
replaced dead maple trees at the
Moore Township Recreational Fields
in Bath, Pennsylvania, on Arbor Day.
Dustin Rhoades, UVM senior specialist
with the Davey Resource Group (DRG),
said 20 township residents, three
township supervisors and five DRG
employees attended the planting.
The crew conducted a tree planting
seminar and taught residents the
proper way to plant a tree,
Rhoades said.
SWITCHING OUT
MAPLES FOR PEARS
Pictured from left, DRG employees Dustin Rhoades,
Eric Gauer, David Shaffer and Robert Spampinato.
