PHOTO OF THE DAY: LITTLE ONES

Students at Freeman Academy examine a sapling being shown by kindergarten instructor Lynnelle Hofer during a special visit from members of Freeman’s branch of Tree City USA Friday morning, April 21. The classroom visit by Lance Edwards, Charly Waltner, Micah Graber and Mark Harberts, who all have an association with ecology in the Freeman community, was designed to inform the children about the importance of trees and the management of trees in conjunction with Arbor Day, which will be observed next Friday, April 28. The four men also paid a visit to Freeman Public’s second grade classroom on Friday — an alternative to the scheduled tree-planting ceremony on the northwestern corner of the Freeman Public campus, which was postponed because of the wet and cool weather.