Send us your fourth grade Arbor Day program stories and photos
Volunteers wear "Yay! Trees!" T-shirts as students from Venture High School help with the annual Coeur d'Alene Arbor Day seedling bagging event in 2017. The Press is putting out a call for people to share "then and now" fourth grade Arbor Day tree photos and stories. Email pictures and details to [email protected].
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Ramsey Magnet School students Ruby Baker and Lane Churchill shovel dirt onto a new tree they helped plant during an Arbor Day celebration at Atlas Waterfront Park in 2024. In celebration of the 40th anniversary of the Coeur d'Alene fourth grade seedling giveaway program, The Press is seeking "then and now" photos to show how trees and students have grown through the years.
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Matthew Thayer, who was a Coeur d'Alene High freshman when this photo was taken, helps organize and bag trees during an Arbor Day seedling sacking event in 2022. The Press and the Arbor Day Organization of North Idaho are asking people to send in then-and-now photos of former fourth graders and their Arbor Day giveaway trees in honor of the 40th anniversary of the program.
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These buttons show examples of the results of the art contest the Arbor Day Organization of North Idaho held for 25 years.
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COEUR d'ALENE — Retired forest pathologist John Schwandt grew up in Illinois where he and his siblings received free trees for Arbor Day programs.
"One of them is still there 70 years later," Schwandt said Monday. "I got interested in forestry partly as a result of that and made that my career. I’ve been very fortunate to have been out in the forest for 40-something years."
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