May 2025 Redbud Celebration Prodamatt'jan
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WHEREAS, in 1937, L.H. Hubbard, President of the College of Industrial Arts, now Texas
Woman's University,started an extensive program to make Denton a redbud city;
and
WHEREAS, the City of Denton has a long and distinguished history and part of that history is
associated with the redbud tree holding annual festivals,crowning a Redbud queen
and identified trails lined with redbud trees in our City;and
WHEREAS, Keep Denton Beautiful has distributed approximately 25,000 redbud trees and
seedlings to residents;and
NOW,THEREFORE, I,Gerard Hudspeth,Mayor of the City of Denton,Texas,do hereby proclaim and
celebrate Denon's 31 u annual Denton Redbud Festival in celebration of Arbor Day
in the City of Denton.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and
caused the official seal of the City of Denton,Texas to be affixed
this the13th day of May 2025.
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GERARD HUDSPETH,MAYOR
ATTEST:
LAUREN THODEN,CITY SECRETARY
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