{"id":26815,"date":"2019-04-11T16:46:22","date_gmt":"2019-04-11T20:46:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/?p=26815"},"modified":"2019-04-11T16:46:22","modified_gmt":"2019-04-11T20:46:22","slug":"kent-county-arbor-day-celebration-set-for-april-23","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/2019\/04\/11\/kent-county-arbor-day-celebration-set-for-april-23\/","title":{"rendered":"Kent County Arbor Day Celebration Set for April 23"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Partners to Name Poster Contest Winners, Provide Free Seedlings<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 358px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/1925\/43835521560_cef0272c04.jpg\" alt=\"Photo of budding red bud trees. \" width=\"348\" height=\"232\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: &#8220;Budding Red Bud&#8221; by Ashley Stubbs<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The <a href=\"http:\/\/dnr.maryland.gov\/Pages\/default.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Maryland Department of Natural Resources<\/a> is partnering with Kent County Commissioners and the Kent County Forest Board for the annual Arbor Day celebration, at 1:15 p.m. April 23 in the Kent County Courthouse Courtyard, 103 N. Cross St., Chestertown.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">As part of the event, partners will celebrate Chestertown\u2019s 38th anniversary as a Tree City USA participant and announce the winners of the county\u2019s 2019 Arbor Day Poster Contest.<\/span><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Each year, third and fifth graders from across the county are invited to create posters honoring Arbor Day. Third graders showcased &#8220;How Trees Benefit Kent County&#8221; and fifth graders followed the statewide theme \u201cTrees are Terrific\u2026and Forests Are Too!\u201d \u00a0The top five winners per grade will receive cash prizes up to $50 and their posters featured on a T-shirt.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In case of inclement weather, the ceremony will be held at Garnet Elementary School, 320 Calvert St. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Also in celebration of Arbor Day, Kent County landowners can get free tree seedlings at various times and locations throughout the county the week of April 22. This year, four species of tree seedlings will be given away \u2500 bald cypress, common hackberry, red bud and white oak. These one-year-old seedlings are approximately 10 inches tall and packaged two per bundle. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Limited quantities are available to be given on a first come, first served basis from at these locations and times:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Betterton Town Office: 8 a.m. to 3 p.m., April 22, 23, 25 and 26<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Chestertown Town Office: 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., April 22-26<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Galena Town Office: 9:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m., April 22-26<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Kent County Commissioners office: Weekdays, 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., April 22-26<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Kent County Parks and Recreation, Worton: 8:30 a.m.to 9:30 p.m., April 22-26; 8:30 a.m. to 6 p.m., April 27<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Kent Soil and Water Conservation District Office: 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., April 22-26<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Millington Town Office: 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., April 22-26<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Rock Hall Town Office: 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., April 22-26<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Partners to Name Poster Contest Winners, Provide Free Seedlings The Maryland Department of Natural Resources is partnering with Kent County Commissioners and the Kent County Forest Board for the annual Arbor Day celebration, at 1:15 p.m. April 23 in the Kent County Courthouse Courtyard, 103 N. Cross St., Chestertown. As part of the event, partners<a href=\"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/2019\/04\/11\/kent-county-arbor-day-celebration-set-for-april-23\/\">&nbsp;&nbsp;Read the Rest&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[957,1965],"tags":[2940,3063,3091],"class_list":["post-26815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-appnews","category-maryland-forest-service","tag-arbor-day","tag-kent-county","tag-trees"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26815","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/146"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26815"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26815\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26818,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26815\/revisions\/26818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}