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Jerry Merrill REXBU RG
Mayor
mayor @ rexburg.org America's Family Community
PROCLAMATION
No. 2024-04
May 16, 2024, as Arbor Day
WHEREAS: In 1872, J. Sterling Morton proposed to the Nebraska Board of Agriculture
that a special day be set aside for the planting of trees, and
WHEREAS: The holiday, called Arbor Day, was first observed with the planting of more
than a million trees in Nebraska, and
WHEREAS: Arbor Day is now observed throughout the nation and the world, and
WHEREAS: Trees can reduce the erosion of our precious topsoil by wind and water,
lower our heating and cooling costs, moderate the temperature, clean the air, produce
oxygen and provide habitat for wildlife, and
WHEREAS: Trees are a renewable resource giving up paper, wood for our homes, fuel
for our fires and countless other wood products, and
WHEREAS: Trees in our city increase property values, enhance the economic vitality
of business areas, and beautify our community, and
WHEREAS: Trees, wherever they are planted, are a source of joy and spiritual
renewal,
NOW, THEREFORE: I, Jerry Merrill, Mayor of the City of Rexburg do hereby proclaim
May 16, 2024, as Arbor Day in the City of Rexburg, and I urge all citizens to celebrate
Arbor Day and to support efforts to protect our trees and woodlands, and
Further, I urge all citizens to plant and care for trees to gladden the heart and promote
the well-being of this and future generations.
ADOPTED by the City of Rexburg, State of Idaho, on this 1 sc day of May 2024.
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ATTEST:
Deborah Lovejoy, City CI rk
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, 1 have hereunto set my
hand and caused the Seal of the City of Rexburg to
be affixed this 1st day of May of the year of our Lord
two thousand twenty-four.
APPROVED:
Jer Merr' , May