McManus Family keeps arboretum on solid ground

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Honoring gifts to the arboretum are, from left, front row, Charles and Nora McManus’ children, Mary, Carolyn, Philip, Patricia, and Kathleen; back row, Brodhead School District Superintendent Dave Novy, Albrecht Elementary School Principal Kelly Knox, School Board President Mike Krupke, and Middle School Principal Lisa Semrow.

By Paul Roemer, Brodhead School District

Thanks to the family of Charles and Nora McManus, the M.J. Blackford Brodhead School Arboretum Fund is on solid financial ground.

Besides a generous monetary contribution, the family also built six Aldo Leopold benches and donated them to the Brodhead School District for the Arboretum.

The 2.5 acre School Arboretum has been mostly funded by donations or fund raising efforts over the past 53 years. Most maintenance work has been donated as well.

The Arboretum was established in 1969 to educate Brodhead students about the environment.

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