Duquesne Light celebrated Arbor Day by planting trees and participating in related
activities designed to teach youngsters about tree care on April 26-27 at five Pittsburgh sites:
Woods Run branch of the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh;
Liberty Elementary School in Shadyside;
Chartiers Early Childhood Center in Sheraden;
Phillips Elementary School on the South Side; and
Martin Luther King Accelerated Academy in Fineview.
At each location, representatives of Vegetation Management, along with employee volunteers, planted
a tree, provided a lesson in tree growth, and assisted with art projects and other activities. Trees
donated by the company included accolade elm, Cleveland select pear, redbud, serviceberry and Kentucky
coffeetree.
Pennsylvania traditionally observes Arbor Day on the last Friday of April. Collaborating with Duquesne
Light on this year's events were Friends of the Pittsburgh Urban Forest, the Pittsburgh Shade Tree Commission,
Conservation Consultants, Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh Public Schools, Pittsburgh City Forestry
and Pittsburgh City Parks.
Following are photographs taken at two of the Arbor Day sites:
Members of Duquesne Light's Vegetation Management department, along with employee volunteers, join students
from Liberty Elementary School in planting an accolade elm tree.
Pittsburgh Mayor Luke Ravenstahl speaks at Arbor Day celebration at Liberty Elementary.
Mayor Ravenstahl receives a Tree City USA flag recognizing Pittsburgh's urban and community forestry programs.
A youngster throws a small shovel of dirt during tree-planting ceremony at the Woods Run branch
of the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh.
Duquesne Light Vegetation Management's Andy Berchin encourages children at the Woods Run library to
help a serviceberry tree grow by chanting: "grow tree, grow."
Children at the Woods Run library learn how to count rings on cross-sections of tree trunks.
Duquesne Light employee volunteers help youngsters with their own planting, above, and tree-related art activities, below.
