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In recognition of Texas Arbor Day on Nov. 3, members of the Browning Community Garden Club planted a tree at Caraday of Lampasas. Pictured are, from left to right, Gail Eltgroth, Oleta Walls, Lanetta Sprott and Betty Seacrest. courtesy photo
Arbor Day looks with promise toward a future filled with trees, and celebrates all the ways trees enrich our lives and stabilize the environment.
In Texas, Arbor Day first was celebrated in Temple on Feb. 22, 1889, when W. Goodrich Jones led a mass meeting to call for a treeplanting campaign along the streets of the city. One year later, the first statewide observance of Arbor Day took place in…