Avalon Garden Club Hosts Arbor Day Celebration

AVALON — The Avalon Garden Club held its annual Arbor Day celebration on Fri., April 28. The Club officially dedicated the new planting of a Honey Locust tree on the Dune Drive traffic median located at 66th Street.
Avalon Mayor Martin Pagliughi was joined by council members John McCorristin and Chuck Covington at the event. Mayor Pagliughi offered an official proclamation that designed Arbor Day in Avalon and encouraged all citizens to consider planting trees and celebrate the riches that they provide to the community.
Arbor Day was first observed in 1872 as J. Sterling Morton proposed to the Nebraska Board of Agriculture a special day to be set aside for the planting of trees. Morton’s idea resulted in more than one million trees being planted in the State of Nebraska.
The Honey Locust tree is easy to plant, grows quickly, has strong branches and withstands elements and urban settings. Full sun is the ideal condition for this tree as it needs at least six hours of unfiltered sunlight each day, which it will experience on the Dune Drive median. Honey Locusts also tolerates wet and dry sites, salt, compacted soil, pollution and other urban stresses.
The Avalon Garden Club’s next project will be its popular plant sale to be held on Fri. and Sat., May 5 and 6, at Avalon Community Hall, 30th Street and the beach in Avalon. The Avalon Garden Club also sponsors Avalon’s annual community-wide yard sale event to be held on Sat., May 13 at dozens of properties throughout the Borough.
For more information regarding Avalon Garden Club events and activities, click on the “Avalon Garden Club” link at www.avalonboro.net.