By Laura Mazur
Community Post
Each year, Arbor Day is celebrated with the planting of trees.

Sixth graders at New Bremen Junior High School took some time last week to celebrate the holiday, including planting a tree of their own.
“They make for a very good resource for our town and that's why we plant them,” Principal Karen Smith told students during the morning's assembly.
Workers from the New Bremen Tree Commission visited the school on Friday to teach kids a little bit about Arbor Day. The tree commission plants between 35 and 75 trees in New Bremen each year, replacing damaged ones and planting new ones around new home developments, in parks and in tree lawns.
“You can always come back and see the growth of the tree and know you helped plant it,” said John Schwartz, a member of the commission.
And in return, students from Mrs. Tebbe's class taught fellow students, teachers, administration and tree commission members what they knew about trees and Arbor Day with a video presentation of Arbor Day Television, which included a news broadcast, a talkshow and game show and other TV parodies.
Students Taylor Bergman, Kim Brown and Tarynn Clune described their experience with this year's Labor Day celebration.
“It's a lot harder to make a movie than it looks,” said Bergman.
Clune said, “It was fun and challenging. It was fun thinking of all the show ideas.”
Brown said she learned about planting trees and about the founding of the holiday.
Students then went to Jaycee Park to help plant a Pin Oak tree by putting mulch around the freshly planted tree. The tree, which is currently between 14 and 16 feet tall, will grow to about 70 feet tall.
The tree will have a special plaque at its base commemorating the planting of the Class of 2014.