Lakes Area Students Go Green
Crosslake Community Students Celebrate Earth Day
Crosslake Community School students celebrated Earth Day Tuesday, April 22nd. Seventh and eighth grade teacher Angela Schultz said the day was spent learning how to conserve energy and planting trees. Listen to a special KLKS presentation at the Crosslake Community School . Arbor Day was established in Nebraska in 1872 and is celebrated on the last Friday in April.
It is well that you should celebrate your Arbor Day thoughtfully, for within your lifetime the nation's need of trees will become serious. We of an older generation can get along with what we have, though with growing hardship; but in your full manhood and womanhood you will want what nature once so bountifully supplied and man so thoughtlessly destroyed; and because of that want you will reproach us, not for what we have used, but for what we have wasted.
~Theodore Roosevelt, 1907 Arbor Day Message
Emily Charter School Celebrates Arbor Month
The students at Emily Charter School will celebrate Arbor Month again this year and use the nearby Emily Charter Forest to learn natural science lessons. Instructor Robin Ward said students will learn about tree planting, identification, and bud-capping among other topics. Ward said the forest serves as a learning tool for students and community members alike. She said the next step for the Emily Charter School Forest is to find ways to get other community groups to become involved in the school forest program. Listen to a special KLKS presentation at the Emily Charter School.
