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as part of the annual school calendar, which included the planting of shade trees or flowering shrubs. The day has been celebrated since the year of the school's opening in 1925. On Arbor Day in 1925, the students, parents and neighbours of the school planted trees on the school grounds, with the trees being planted along the fence line that bordered both
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