Mountain Brook students receive Arbor Day accolades

Several Mountain Brook students received awards for their Arbor Day artwork.

Around 150 students across Mountain Brook’s four elementary schools participated in this year’s Alabama Arbor Day poster contest, creating artwork around the theme “Trees are terrific inside and out.” The contest is hosted by the Alabama Cooperative Extension System.

Winners and runners-up were recognized at Mountain Brook City Hall on Thursday, Feb. 4. They received Village Gold gift cards, and the winners’ posters will move on to the statewide competition.

Mountain Brook Tree Commission member Ruth Mears thanked the students for their hard work in the poster competition, which helps kick-off Arbor Day events.

“I thought this work was just so good,” she said.

Kenneth Key, also a member of the Mountain Brook Tree Commission, said the students’ participation will help Mountain Brook qualify to be a Tree City. It has been named a Tree City for the past 22 years.

The fifth graders who were recognized included Cherokee Bend Elementary students Lucy Kerr and Palin Wilkinson, Mountain Brook Elementary students Hayden Hawkins and Kendall Crabtree, Crestline Elementary students Mia Dunlap and Lucy Clapp and Brookwood Forest student Sarah Inskeep.

To celebrate Arbor Day, the tree commission will give away seedlings at Emmett O’Neal Library, Whole Foods, the Piggly Wiggly at River Run and Western Market. They expect to give out around 2,000 seedlings.