ST. PETER, Minn. �Arbor Day was celebrated on April 24 this year. The goal of this project is to help revitalize the observation of Arbor Day in Americas schools.
Fourth graders at about a dozen schools, including St. Peter Elementary and St. Peter Catholic, received over 600 tree seedlings to take home and plant from SouthPoint Federal Credit Union.
"This is a wonderful project to get young people aware of our environment so they can begin to do their part to help preserve our planet," said�Troy Diedrich of the credit union. SouthPoint started giving tree seedlings to area fourth graders in 2011. Each fourth grader received an individually packaged 12- to 18-inch black spruce seedling.
ST. PETER, Minn. �Arbor Day was celebrated on April 24 this year. The goal of this project is to help revitalize the observation of Arbor Day in Americas schools.
Fourth graders at about a dozen schools, including St. Peter Elementary and St. Peter Catholic, received over 600 tree seedlings to take home and plant from SouthPoint Federal Credit Union.
"This is a wonderful project to get young people aware of our environment so they can begin to do their part to help preserve our planet," said�Troy Diedrich of the credit union. SouthPoint started giving tree seedlings to area fourth graders in 2011. Each fourth grader received an individually packaged 12- to 18-inch black spruce seedling.