Snow in September - Calgary remembers “Snowtember” 2014

A tree planting to commemorate the one year anniversary of ‘Snowtember’ and kick-off a year of tree education at this year’s Arbour Day school takes place at 10 a.m. Thursday September 10th, 2015. Expected speakers include: Naheed Nenshi, Mayor; The City of Calgary, Nico Bernard; Manager of the ReTree YYC project and school Principal David Gustavson.   Transcript / Time Code 1 00:00:02,910 --> 00:00:07,630 DAVID: We're very happy to be hosting this "Snowtember" commemoration   2 00:00:07,630 --> 00:00:10,560 and were really happy to be the recipients   3 00:00:10,560 --> 00:00:13,560 of these two beautiful trees that have been planted for us   4 00:00:13,560 --> 00:00:17,780 it (really) represents the rebuilding of the urban forest in Calgary   5 00:00:17,780 --> 00:00:22,660 NENSHI: Over one million trees in the city (one per citizen) were damaged   6 00:00:22,660 --> 00:00:26,990 let's remember that about three times as many trees were damaged   7 00:00:26,990 --> 00:00:29,560 on private property as [compared] to public property   8 00:00:29,560 --> 00:00:31,060 so this is really a community effort   9 00:00:31,060 --> 00:00:35,180 since January 1st of this year we planted over 6,500 trees   10 00:00:35,180 --> 00:00:38,840 we've assesed and/or pruned 64,000 trees   11 00:00:38,840 --> 00:00:41,520 but we have lots and lots of work left to do   12 00:00:41,530 --> 00:00:46,809 working together to rebuild our city to replant our city to #ReTree our city   13 00:00:46,809 --> 00:00:52,770 NICO: We've handed out 1,200 bags of mulch and we've also handed out about 800 saplings   14 00:00:52,770 --> 00:00:56,989 or small pine trees - what is really important and the reason we are here   15 00:00:56,989 --> 00:01:02,349 today is to try and create a love for trees from a young age and it is about   16 00:01:02,349 --> 00:01:06,740 kids learning to appreciate trees and when they grow up   17 00:01:06,750 --> 00:01:08,080 in the next generation that   18 00:01:08,080 --> 00:01:10,180 they will also look after the trees