There will be lots of school kids digging today.
The Grey Sauble Conservation Authority is holding its annual Arbor Day school program at the Arboretum.
That is when dozens of students from Grey Highlands Secondary School will help a group of elementary students from Sullivan Community School plant hundreds of trees at at the Grey Sauble Conservation Authority headquarters area.
Property Manager Chris Hachey says this is a day long educational event that is more than just planting trees.
He says there will be guided hikes to show the young people the different species of trees that grow at the Arboretum and how they interact and relate to the Niagara Escarpment.
Hachey says more than 12 hundred trees have been planted in the expanded Arboretum area since 2000.
A similar event also is taking place at Grey Roots Museum.
Two classes from Derby Community School and their teachers will join with Schoolhouse Project volunteers, retired teachers of Grey County, and Grey Roots staff to begin the new story of the almost-ready schoolhouse.
Beginning at 10 AM — they will engage in painting rocks to be used in garden trimming, planting trees and shrubs in the front yard, prepare and plant flower beds, and tidying up the new school yard.