A new 'One Day, One School' program, making trees on school properties safer, may be coming soon to a town near you

摘要

Walking his 10-year-old to elementary school every day, Tom "Ace" Gallagher of Hanover Township, NJ, felt confident his son was safe. Until, one day, he looked up. "There were a couple of obvious dead branches hanging over the path and a couple dead trees," says Gallagher, owner of Ace Gallagher Stump Grinding Services LLC in Whippany. "I said to my wife, 'I don't want to sound like a typical parent. But this is a really dangerous path.'" Gallagher turned his concern into action. He wrote a letter toHanover Township superintendent Scott Pepper and volunteered his company's services. Gallagher didn't realize it at the time, but the resulting hours of donated work was the unofficial launching of what has now grown into the volunteer ^program known locally as "One Day, One School."