Parsippany Comes Together to Celebrate Arbor Day

The Township of Parsippany celebrated being named “Tree City USA” for the forty-seventh year on Arbor Day.

Second-grade students from Northvail Elementary School read the poem “The Giving Tree,” Second-grade students from Rockaway Meadow School recited “Trees of the Fragrant Forest,” and the second-grade class students from Lake Hiawatha Schoool recited “Trees.”

Representative Mikie Sherrill presented a “Certificate of Congressional Recognition” to the Township.

Council President Loretta Gragnani presented the Arbor Day Flag to Mayor James Barberio, Director of Public Works Department James Walsh, and Township Council members.

Parsippany has thirty-one parks throughout the Township. The park system has preserved over 800 acres ranging from the 0.32 Lake Hiawatha Park to the 352-acre Knoll Park. This total surpasses the nationally recognized standard of having one acre of par land for every 100 residents, The goal has been to provide recreation within walking distance of every resident.

The origin of Arbor Day dates back to the early 1870s in Nebraska. The firstever Arbor Day, held on April 10, 1872, was a success.