Fall River celebrated Arbor Day on April 27th at Kennedy Park, an event that marked its third year. Mayor Paul Coogan issued a city proclamation, officially declaring Friday, April 27th, as Arbor Day in Fall River. The proclamation highlighted the numerous benefits of trees, including providing oxygen, absorbing carbon dioxide, offering shade, increasing property values, and enhancing the city's aesthetics. During the event, 15 trees were planted around the skating rink pond at Kennedy Park, which also saw cleanup crews and food trucks. Chris Pirano, the city's Planner and Tree Warden, announced plans to plant at least another 120 trees this spring, with more to follow in the coming year. City Councilor Andrew Aposa, Nancy from the Parks Department, Darren from DCM, Al Alera, and Demitri were also present, emphasizing the community's commitment to maintaining and expanding the city's urban forest.
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hi I'm Cody cabal and today I'm at Kennedy Park for one thing Arbor Day Arbor Day is a way to help the environment by planting over a 100 trees all right we're here at Arbor Day at Kennedy Park God liked us cuz we got some beautiful weather here today to plant 15 trees around our skating rink Pond uh Kandy Park I don't know if it's ever looked this good at is clean we got
0:26cleanup Crews here we got food trucks if you want to come by and see something that would be great but this is really a traditional day a to day and I want to acknowledge it with a city Proclamation but before I do that I want to thank uh our city councelor Andrew aosa for coming down to join us today we have Nancy from the parks Darren from DCM Chris pirano Al alera and Demitri all
0:47here um trying again to keep this park beautiful so everybody in the city gets an opportunity to come down and have some fun with that being said let's look at the official City Proclamation whereas our forefathers of our city had the foresight to plant numerous trees throughout our city so the Fall River now enjoys thousands of trees along the streets many more in the Parks playgrounds cemeteries and on private
1:12property and trees are a most valuable natural resource to our city providing oxygen that we breathe absorbing carbon dioxide providing shade from the heat in the summer and offering a home to birds and small animals and giving our city an aesthetic uplift by covering our city and a canopy of color through the the Autumn months and that many of the positive benefits of trees result in the
1:34increase in property value so all our residential and business properties making Fall River a better place to live and it is important for our children to recognize the multitude of advantages provided by our trees so that we may carry our commitment to planting and maintaining trees onward the city of Fall River in an effort to incorporate our children in the stewardship of an urban Forest will'll be celebrating
1:57Arbor Day in our elementary school also now therefore be it resolved that I Paul Coogan Mayor of the city of fora do hereby Proclaim Friday April 27th Arbor Day in the city of Fall River and I'll present this to Chris pirano our planner and our tree War anybody want to say a few words thank you everybody thanks for the uh support from the parks and DCM uh for making this event happen this is the third year
2:30um we're doing a lot of uh great tree initiatives in the city both with maintaining our existing trees um and planting new ones we'll have uh at least another 120 in the ground this spring um and many more to come in the next year or so councilor posa just want to thank everybody for being here today thanks to Mayor kougan and his team the great work they're doing it's a beautiful day here
2:50at Kennedy Park and we continue to move forward the city and make it a great place to live and breathe thank you Al good good again thanks everybody you get a chance go by and look at the new trees there's League Baseball up the top pickle ball down the bottom come on by and enjoy some fun at ceny Park thank you everybody we we try to raise awareness about the importance of trees
3:11in our community um they do a lot to beautify uh the city that we live in but also provide um you know protection from Urban heat island effect they help clean uh storm water and prevent runoff uh so there's a lot of environmental and ecological benefits to our tree canopy uh so we want to raise awareness so people understand the tremendous benefits that trees have to offer and hopefully um help us uh maintain and
3:38advocate for uh future tree plantings I'm Cody cabal reporting for Fred TV thank you for coming with me to Arbor Day