The City of Fall River held an Arbor Day celebration at Britland Park on a Saturday morning. The event was led by Mayor Paul Coogan, who was joined by City Councilor Andrew Reposa. The mayor welcomed attendees and thanked Chris and his crew for their work, noting that many tree plantings would be occurring across the city throughout the summer. Mayor Coogan read a formal proclamation detailing the numerous benefits of trees to the city, including providing oxygen, absorbing carbon dioxide, offering shade, increasing property values, and enhancing the city's aesthetic beauty. The proclamation also emphasized the importance of involving children in the stewardship of the urban forest and announced that Arbor Day would be celebrated in elementary schools. The mayor officially proclaimed the previous day, April 24th, as Arbor Day in the City of Fall River. The ceremony was set to conclude with the planting of a tree in the park.
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First of all, we want to welcome everybody to Arbor Day down at Britland Park in the city of Fall River. I'm joined by one of my colleagues in government, Andrew Reposa from the city council. Nice end to come out on a on a beautiful Saturday morning in Fall River. I'm going to read a proclamation and then we're going to plant a tree.
0:16There's going to be a lot of tree plantings going on across the city of Far River this summer. I want to thank Chris and his crew. Uh they really do a great job and uh it's something we want to really keep promoting.
0:28Whereas the forefathers of our city had the foresight to plant numerous trees throughout our city. So the Fall River now enjoys thousands of trees along our streets and many more in parks like this one, playgrounds, cemeteries, and on private property. And whereas trees are the most valuable natural resource of our city, providing oxygen to the air we breathe, absorbing carbon dioxide,
0:50providing shade during the heat of the summer, offering a home to birds and small animals, and giving our city an aesthetic uplift by covering our city in a canopy of colors in our autumn months.
1:02And whereas the many positive benefits of trees result in an increase of property values to all our residential and business properties, making Fall River a better place to live. And whereas it is important that our children to recognize the multitude of advantages provided by our trees so that they may carry on our commitment to planting and maintaining trees. and whereas the city of Fall River to
1:27incorporate our children in the stewardship of an urban forest and we will be celebrating Arbor Day in our elementary schools. So therefore, be it resolved that I, Paul Coogan, mayor of the city of Fall River, do hereby proclaim yesterday, April 24th, Arbor Day, we're celebrating it today, signed and witnessed by my hand, Paul Coogan, mayor of the city of Fall River. Again, thanks everybody for coming out today.