The City of Fond du lac will be celebrating its Arbor Day at 1 p.m. on Thursday, April 27 at the Park Pavilion in Lakeside Park. A third-grade class from Lakeshore School will be planting the Arbor Day tree on the west lakefront in Lakeside Park. Festival Foods will donate the Arbor Day tree and tree seedlings for the students. This will be a joint Arbor Day celebration for the City of Fond du Lac and UW Oshkosh, Fond du Lac campus. The University will receive the award for its fourth year of Tree Campus Higher Education status. UW Oshkosh is the only UW System school with all three of its campuses holding Tree Campus Higher Education status. The city will receive its 35th Tree City Award. Tracy Salisbury, the northeast urban forestry coordinator of the Department of Natural Resources, will present the awards on behalf of the National Arbor Foundation.