Arbor Day trees: Where are they now?
Jessica Cenell is seen with the Douglas fir tree she planted in Hayden as a fourth grader after bringing home a seedling through the Coeur d'Alene Arbor Day program. Cenell planted the tree about 32 years ago.
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Coeur d'Alene mom Patty McGinnis sent The Press this photo of the pin oak her daughter, Makena, brought home from Borah Elementary in 2002.
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Alyssa Romero was in Mrs. Deremiah’s fourth grade class at Bryan Elementary when she brought home this hope crabapple tree during the Coeur d'Alene Arbor Day program in 2009. The tree is seen here in 2021.
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Forty years ago, a small program was launched to send local fourth graders home with free seedlings in celebration of Arbor Day.
It began with a few hundred seedlings given away to a few Coeur d'Alene schools. Now, nearly 2,000 seedlings are distributed to fourth graders across Kootenai County each year.
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