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Home Page: Cambridge Tree Project
We are currently doing a weekly television show on Channel 9 on Cambridge Community Cable Television which is shown from 2- 2:27 p.m. on Fridays and is rebroadcast on Saturday a.m. at 10 a.m. Heard about the Poetry Contest? Tree Walks! Arbor Days?
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Cambridge Tree Project
is an organization composed of citizens' groups and individuals working together with the City of Cambridge in building support for the protection and management of community trees. Partial funding by Massachusetts Department of Environmental Management and the USDA Forest Service.
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For more information about Tree Talk, Green Talk click here
We are currently doing a weekly television show on Channel 9 on Cambridge Community Cable Television which is shown from 2- 2:27 p.m. on Fridays and is rebroadcast on Saturday a.m. at 10 a.m.Currently we are presenting informatin on the benefits of trees. This week we will be looking at ways of valuing trees in the city. We plan to interview someone who assesses the value of trees. For more information about other green organizations, see Cambridgegreen.org. For more information on events and research from last year, go to www.cambridgebnb.com and click on information at the bottom of the first page.
Arbor Day Plans. Poetry Contest! Read Poems from 1999 Contest on our "About Page" about Trees? If you write, submit to our poetry contest
Join us for Arbor Day celebrations in front of your neighborhood school. In preparation, students and people of all ages are invited to participate in the Favorite Tree Hunt and in the Poetry Contest. Prizes will be awarded.
Learn how to take care of a tree. You may have the chance to "Adopt a Tree" by your home, apartment, school or business. If you cannot attend, give favorite tree entries, tree poems & address to adopt tree to the parent/family liaison in your school.
The day of Arbor Day, we will include:
1.Tree care Demonstration by the Urban Forestry
2.Arbor Day Proclamation by Mayor/ City Councillor/State Representative or other City Official
3.Tree Hunt entries collected. Bring address, circumference at 36 inches, and kind of tree if you know it. Biggest trees and favorite trees in neighborhood announced.
4.Poet will read poetry about trees and
5.Poems from the poetry contest will be read.
6.Your chance to Adopt a Tree! Bring the address of the tree you would like to adopt.
7.Work of students and folks from your neighborhood on trees will be shared and honored.
Poets Jack Powers, Elizabeth McKim, Joanne Sunshower, Andy Levesque, Richard Cambridge and Molly Salans volunteered to participate last year. Gregory Maher, a high school senior and poet, is working with elementary school students to invite these and other poets again this year.
Total time will be 45 minutes includes leaving room & back. Location: in front of school
Monday May 1
High School, 459 Broadway
Tuesday, May 2
Kennedy School 158 Spring St. 8:15-9:00 a.m.
Harrington School 850 Cambridge St. 9:30- 10:15 a.m.
Wednesday, May 3
Fletcher School 89 Elm St 8:45-9:30 a.m. Maynard School also welcom if you RSVP to 547-1413
Fitzgerald School at Sennott Park 9:45-10:30 a.m.
Thursday, May 4
Longfellow School 359 Broadway 8:45-9:30 a.m.
King School 10- 10:45 a.m. 100 Putnam St. and Science Fair evening
Friday May 5
Haggerty School 8:15 - 9:00 a.m. 110 Cushing St.
Tobin School 9:30- 10 :15 a. m. 197 Vassal Lane
Saturday May 6
Arbor Day and City Tree Millennium Project at Columbia Park near Central Square. Everyone welcome. 10-1 p.m.
Tree Walk 9 a.m.- 11 a.m. Mid- Cambridge to Columbia Park.Bill Shutkin
Sunday May 7
Tree Walk of Fresh Pond. Meet Ranger Jean Rogers at Tobin School 4 p.m. Walk 4:30-6 p.m.
Monday May 8
Agassiz School 28 Sacramento Street. 1:00- 1:45 p.m.
Peabody School 44 Linnaean St. 2-2:45 p.m.
Tuesday May 9
Graham and Parks School 15 Upton St. 8:50-9:30 a.m.
Cambridgeport & Morse Schools also welcome 9:45-11if you RSVP to 547-1413)
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