Volunteers For Arbor Day Celebration Needed To Help Plant Trees

HAVRE DE GRACE, MD — Volunteers are needed to help plant trees April 18 for Harford County's Arbor Day Celebration.

Approximately 130 trees will be planted at Chapel Road Park for Arbor Day. Since the celebrations began in 2003, Harford has planted more than 33,000 native trees, including red maple, tulip poplar, white oak, black walnut, eastern red cedar and redbud.

Families, civic organizations, school groups and Scouts are invited to help and everyone will receive a free native tree to take home. Participants should bring a hammer, shovel and work gloves, if they have them, and arrive at 9:30 a.m. in the parking area at Chapel Road Park, located at 2021 Chapel Road in Havre de Grace. Tree planting will begin at 10 a.m. and is expected to last two to three hours.

The celebration will include the presentation of the Arbor Day Foundation’s National Arbor Day Tree City USA Award to Harford County government. The award, which Harford will be presented for the 22nd time, recognizes the work of elected officials, staff and citizens who plant and care for the community forest, benefiting the environment and the economy.