White Plains Beautification
Foundation Presents
ARBOR DAY
CELEBRATION 2025

Friday, April 25, 10am
at Mamaroneck Avenue School

ILLUSTRATION BY
SOPHIE SANCHEZ, GRADE 2
White Plains School District
Mamaroneck Avenue School

April 25, 2025
MAS Nature Club Members Performing Hunter Even, “Redbud,” poem by Leah Even Olivia Zappala, “My Tree,” poem by Lenore
Hetrick
Alexis Ruiz-Mohammed, clarinet, “Lightly Row,”
“Hot Cross Buns,” “Mary Had a Little Lamb” Asher Saddiqui, “Climate Change,” Unknown
Author
Juliana Cerill, “Trees,” by Harry Behn

Schedule of Events
Welcome
Arbor Day Chair Nancy Giges
Director, White Plains Beautification
Foundation
Presentation of the Tree wpbf.org
Terry Hanson
President, White Plains Beautification
Foundation
Presentation of Westchester County
Proclamation
Ken Jenkins
County Executive, Westchester County
Presentation of City of White Plains
Proclamation
Thomas Roach
Mayor, City of White Plains
Presentation of the Tree City USA Flag
Stefania Mignone
Commissioner, Department of Public Works
City of White Plains
A Word on Behalf of Mamaroneck
Avenue School
Brendan McCarthy
Assistant Principal
Poetry Readings and Musical
Performance by MAS Nature Club
Members
Hunter Even, Olivia Zappala, Alexis Ruiz-Mohammed, Asher Saddiqui, Juliana Cerilli
Special Remarks Honoring the Memory of Ruth Manecke
Mary Beth Gruber
Ruth Manecke’s Daughter
Closing – Nancy Giges

For more information please visit:
https://wpbf.org/event/arbor-day-celebration-public-is-welcome-3/