Huntington Beach celebrates Arbor Day with tree planting
Mike Rehberger from the Huntington Beach Public Works Department helps students from S.A. Moffett Elementary School plant a melaleuca tree during an Arbor Day event at Drew Park on Wednesday.
(Don Leach / Staff Photographer)Students from S.A. Moffett Elementary School grab shovels and plant a melaleuca tree during an Arbor Day celebration Wednesday at Drew Park in Huntington Beach.
(Don Leach / Staff Photographer)Moffett Elementary students Mia Bertron, Leah Guskos and Grace Seals, from left, read about Arbor Day and the importance of trees during a tree-planting ceremony at Drew Park in Huntington Beach on Wednesday.
(Don Leach / Staff Photographer)Two volunteers from the Huntington Beach Tree Society watch students from S.A. Moffett Elementary School read tree-related poetry during an Arbor Day celebration and tree planting at Drew Park in Huntington Beach on Wednesday.
(Don Leach / Staff Photographer)Moffett Elementary students including Saxon Baltzer, rights, plant a melaleuca tree during an Arbor Day ceremony Wednesday at Drew Park in Huntington Beach.
(Don Leach / Staff Photographer)Moffett Elementary students help Gil Brito of the Huntington Beach Public Works Department plant a shoestring acacia tree Wednesday at Drew Park in Huntington Beach to commemorate Arbor Day.
(Don Leach / Staff Photographer)Mike Rehberger of the Huntington Beach Public Works Department tells students from S.A. Moffett Elementary School about the melaleuca tree they were planting during an Arbor Day event Wednesday at Drew Park in Huntington Beach.
(Don Leach / Staff Photographer)Moffett Elementary School students join Mike Rehberger from Huntington Beach Public Works in planting a melaleuca tree as the Huntington Beach Tree Society mascot looks on during an Arbor Day ceremony at Drew Park on Wednesday.
(Don Leach / Staff Photographer)Members of the Huntington Beach Tree Society help their mascot with its costume during Wednesday’s Arbor Day celebration at Drew Park in Huntington Beach.
(Don Leach / Staff Photographer)Huntington Beach celebrated Arbor Day on Wednesday with a ceremony at Drew Park.
Students from nearby S.A. Moffett Elementary School planted trees at the city park off Cape Cottage Lane.
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Bradley Zint left Times Community News in 2018. He was a general assignment reporter for the Daily Pilot, where he worked since 2010. At the Pilot, he also was a copy editor, classical music columnist and reporter covering Costa Mesa and Newport Beach. He previously worked in Hermosa Beach, Long Beach, Alaska and Massachusetts. He is a graduate of Cal State Long Beach, where he served as editor-in-chief of its campus newspaper, the Daily 49er.