WAKEFIELD — Third grade students in the Walton School helped Wakefield’s Public Works Department celebrate Arbor Day by hosting a poster contest. This year’s winners were Lucy Mattera and Madalyn Ryan. Both winners will have the opportunity to have a tree planted at their home and their artwork will be proudly displayed at Town Hall.
The Arbor Day holiday began in Nebraska City, NE. According to the Arbor Day Foundation, J. Sterling Morton first proposed a tree planting holiday to be called “Arbor Day” at a meeting of the State Board of Agriculture in 1872. More than one million trees were planted in Nebraska during that first celebration. Today, the holiday is observed in all 50 states.