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Scotchtown Hills gets a little bit greener on Arbor Day by Steve Earley | Staff Writer E-mail this article \ Print this article Speakers at an Arbor Day celebration at Scotchtown Hills Elementary School on Friday encouraged pupils to take ownership of the 29 trees they were planting that day, and by extension, the earth itself. ??These trees will be your trees,? R. Calvert Steuart, Prince George?s County?s Beautification Committee chairman, told the pupils during a morning assembly in the school cafeteria. ??You?ll be able to come back to Scotchtown Hills 10, 15, 20 years from now and say, ?Golly, there?s the tree I planted on Arbor Day.?? With those inspirational words, the school?s 630 pupils set out into sunny, 60-degree weather and took turns shoveling dirt over the roots of twoand- a-half-foot-tall trees including redwood, dogwood and maple. The trees, provided by the Maryland Department of Natural Resources? Tree-Mendous Maryland program, were planted......