Celebrate Arbor Day at Mills-Parole Elementary

ANNAPOLIS, MD — Residents are invited to attend the city’s Arbor Day Celebration at the Walter S. Mills Parole Elementary School.

The city’s event will be held from 1 to 2 p.m. on Friday, April 8, at the Walter S. Mills Parole Elementary School, located at 1 George and Marion Phelps Lane in Annapolis.

Students will participate in the celebration by singing a John Denver song and the Arbor Day event will include a tree planting with an American dogwood tree donated by BGE.

Arbor Day was first observed in 1872 with the planting of more than a million trees in Nebraska.

For more information on the Annapolis celebration, contact the Department of Neighborhood and Environmental Programs at 410-263-7946.

»Photo of Mills Parole Elementary School, courtesy of Anne Arundel County Public Schools