An Arbor Day Celebration will be held tomorrow in Osawatomie. The Miami County Conservation District is sponsoring the City of Osawatomie’s Arbor Day Tree Planting Celebration to honor the community’s 16th year to be recognized as a Tree City, U. S. A.
Volunteers are still needed. The group will start gathering at 8:00 Saturday morning at Anna January Park, at the corner of 10th and South Streets in Osawatomie. Doughnuts and coffee will be provided about 9:00 followed by a Tree Planting 101 class.
They will plant three legacy sugar maples and two Chinkapin oaks at the park. They will also four Bald Cypress, four Red Maple Brandywines and two Willow Oaks in the parking islands at the Flint Hills Trail Eastern Terminus.
