The 150th annual Fall River Arbor Day Fair and Proclamation Ceremony was held on April 30, 2022. The event featured community partners such as Louis Tree, a contractor with National Grid, who demonstrated lifting and lowering logs, and Davey Resource Group, contracted arborists, who reviewed tree benefits and demonstrated tree climbing. Speakers highlighted the significant economic and environmental advantages of Fall River's over 6,500 public trees, noting they contribute almost $330,000 to real estate values, clean water, retain stormwater runoff, and reduce heating and cooling costs for residents. Mayor Paul Coogan read an official proclamation, declaring Friday, April 29th, as Arbor Day in Fall River. He acknowledged the efforts of DCM workers and Chris Pereno, Director of Cemetery, for their work in the city's tree programs. The ceremony also recognized Marianne Wardell for her instrumental role in establishing the Fall River Street Tree Planting Program and encouraged residents to volunteer for tree planting initiatives.
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hello everyone welcome to uh farver's arbor day fair we're excited to be here today we've got a lot of great community partners i'm here to celebrate what i believe is the 150th annual arbor day uh celebration we're joined by uh louis tree uh who's a contractor with national grid they're gonna do some uh demonstrations for uh families about uh lifting logs and lowering logs after
0:26they trim trees davey resource group is here there are contracted arborists they're going to review some tree benefits in the city as well as demonstrate tree climbing just behind me we've got some food trucks ice cream so families can come on down have a great time we're really looking forward to it arbor day is an important day to celebrate trees in the city we're lucky enough to have over
0:546 500 public trees in the city of fall river that provide great economic benefits adding almost 330 thousand dollars to real estate values they help clean our water and retain storm water runoff and reduce heating and cooling costs for city residents so really excited and now i'd like to invite mayor paul coogan up to give the arbor day proclamation mayor coogan thank you thank you chris
1:25we have a i want to thank everybody for coming out today as chris said there's a lot of great events here and we'd love to see some people come down it'll be going on until about two right um fall river has a wonderful park system and uh north park is going to be getting some attention shortly we have a great dcm and we have a great program going on with our tree people and chris does a
1:44fabulous job especially putting arbor day together it's uh it's very important and it's the kind of things we want and plus because of chris forsyth he was able to order this weather so that the ice cream he's going to give away later won't melt he was thinking ahead all the time because it's freezing out here chris but let's do this proclamation whereas the forefathers of our city had
2:07the foresight to plant numerous trees throughout the city so the fall river now enjoys thousands of trees along our streets many more in our parks playground cemeteries and of course on private property and trees are a most valuable natural resource of our city providing oxygen to the air we breathe absorbing carbon dioxide providing shade during the heat of the summer and offering a home to birds and small animals
2:33and it gives our city an aesthetic uplift by covering our city in a canopy of color during the autumn months the many positive benefits of trees result in an increase of property values to all of our residential and business properties making fall river a better place to live and it is important for the children to recognize the multitude of advantages provided by trees so that they may carry
2:59on this commitment to planting and maintaining trees the city of fall river in its effort to incorporate our children into the stewardship of an urban forest will be celebrating arbor day in all of our elementary schools now therefore be it resolved that i paul coogan mayor of the city of fall river do hereby proclaim friday april 29th arbor day and i want to recognize all of our dcm workers and obviously our direct
3:28one of our directors of the cemetery chris pereno and his work in the tree area for the great things they do in the city of fall river thank you
3:50tell me the history of marianne and how the city became a tree city and like we talked earlier about that wonderful tree farm we have that kind of just continues to recycle yeah marianne wardell was instrumental in creating the flow river street tree planting program they're still here they're still active and maintaining our tree farm down on bay street that allows the city to bring
4:12in tree stock care for it before it can be planted either in our parks or on our streets how can people get involved people can get involved by reaching out to the farver street tree planting program or my office at oak grove cemetery we're always looking for volunteers to help us with street tree plantings plantings in the parks we'll be doing some planting demonstrations today so people can learn how to do that
4:36thank you thank you
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