A tree planting to commemorate the one year anniversary of ‘Snowtember’ and kick-off a year of tree education at this year’s Arbour Day school takes place at 10 a.m. Thursday September 10th, 2015. Expected speakers include: Naheed Nenshi, Mayor; The City of Calgary, Nico Bernard; Manager of the ReTree YYC project and school Principal David Gustavson.
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DAVID: We're very happy to be hosting this "Snowtember" commemoration
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and were really happy to be the recipients
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of these two beautiful trees that have been planted for us
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it (really) represents the rebuilding of the urban forest in Calgary
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NENSHI: Over one million trees in the
city (one per citizen) were damaged
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let's remember that about three times as
many trees were damaged
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on private property as [compared] to public property
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so this is really a community effort
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since January 1st of this year we
planted over 6,500 trees
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we've assesed and/or pruned 64,000 trees
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but we have lots and lots of work left to do
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working together to rebuild our city
to replant our city to #ReTree our city
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NICO: We've handed out 1,200 bags of mulch and we've also handed out about 800 saplings
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or small pine trees - what is really
important and the reason we are here
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today is to try and create a love for
trees from a young age and it is about
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kids learning to appreciate trees and
when they grow up
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in the next generation that
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they will also look after the trees
