Supervisor Sweeton: Preparing for Arbor Day – The Warwick Valley Dispatch

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The Town of Warwick will celebrate Arbor Day on Fri., Apr. 30, at 9 a.m. at the Union Corners Dog Park in partnership with the Warwick Valley Gardeners. The Gardeners will be joined by our Shade Tree Commission in planting a flowering crabapple. We are grateful to the Commission and the Warwick Valley Gardeners for all they do to beautify our town.

Arbor Day had its beginnings in an area not always associated with trees or forests—the Great Plains. In 1872 on April 10, Morton Arboretum founder Joy Morton’s father, living in Nebraska at the time, decided to set aside a day for planting and calling attention to trees, as the newly formed territory was a land almost entirely devoid of trees. That date became the first Arbor Day, when it is said that Nebraskans planted one million trees. The birthplace of Arbor Day was Nebraska City, where the Mortons lived in their home called Arbor Lodge. In 1885, Nebraska officially declared April 22, as Arbor Day.

Today, all 50 states, as well as many countries around the world, recognize Arbor Day in some manner. The day of its observance varies, depending on the best time of year to plant trees in each locale. In Illinois, Arbor Day is the last Friday of April.

Join in Operation Clean Sweep this weekend by picking up some bags at the Warwick Valley Chamber Caboose on Sat., Apr. 24, and help clean up your roadside to help keep Warwick beautiful and environmentally healthy. Leave the full bags near an intersection and our DPW will pick them up on Mon., Apr. 26. Thanks for your help and civic pride!

A Public Hearing to amend Chapter 164 of the Town Code entitled “Zoning” to make technical corrections to definitions and the bulk table will be held on Thurs., Apr. 22, 2021 at 7:15 p.m. in the Warwick Town Hall.

The next regular meeting of the Town Board will be held on Thurs., Apr. 22, at 7:30 p.m. in the Warwick Town Hall, 132 Kings Highway. Meeting can be viewed live on the Town of Warwick YouTube channel.