Toddler-proof Christmas tree has a soft touch
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There won’t be any broken glass ornaments at Barbara Lacy-Whalen’s house this year. Nor will her 3-year-old son, Jack, get into trouble for playing with the Christmas tree. Not since Ms. Lacy-Whalen’s gone bananas, so to speak, with her holiday tree trimmings.
She decorates the entire tree with sock monkeys in all shapes and sizes. This […]

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Building a better Christmas tree
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A research project at the Nova Scotia Agricultural College in Truro, N.S., hopes to reverse the move to artificial trees with balsam firs that hold their needles.
The balsam fir is lush, full and fragrant, which makes it a popular choice for Christmas and a mainstay of Nova Scotia’s $30-million-a-year Christmas tree industry.
Industry officials say one […]

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Bugs in Christmas Trees
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Marsha Williams’ Christmas tree is decorated and she’s in the Spirit of the Season.
Williams says, “I’ve never had a problem until this Christmas.”
But a few days ago, a six legged grinch showed up…lots of them
“I woke up and saw bugs everywhere and wanted to know what’s going on,” says Williams.
What was going on is her […]

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Long Island Christmas Tree Is Too Small
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Residents didn’t want to have themselves a merry little Christmas tree. They wanted a big one.
When city officials planted a 7-foot-tall Christmas tree next to a 20-foot-tall menorah in the plaza in front of City Hall, some residents barked. They telephoned City Hall, wrote letters and testified at a public hearing that the tiny tree […]

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Christmas Trees Can Make You Sneeze
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Some people who have a live Christmas tree for the scent or the tradition find there are side-effects.
Michelle Bagley of Henrietta has suffered from asthma and allergies for 20 years.
She puts up an artificial tree in her home each holiday season because she’s allergic.
“It’s the smell, for me, because I have such […]

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Which artificial Christmas tree rated best?
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Is it real, or is it fake? These days, from a distance, it’s harder than ever to tell. A good artificial tree can almost pass for a real one.
Most artificial trees range in price from about $70 to $400. Although, if you want to go top of the line, expect to spend a lot […]

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Holiday guide: Christmas tree expert
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Thomas Sullivan never gets sick of the smell of pine needles.
The 21-year-old Michigan State University student has worked at the Anna Lovisa Tree Farm in Bath for six years. This means he can speak authoritatively about Fraser firs, balsam firs, white pines, Scotch pines and more.
And during his tenure, no one has ever lost a […]

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Rockefeller tree celebrates 75th
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It started with an impromptu display of holiday spirit.
Depression-era workers demolishing the brownstones and buildings that stood in the way of what would become the British Empire Building, part of the future Rockefeller Center, erected a 20-foot Christmas tree in 1931 to break the monotony of their hard labor.
Little did they know that they gave […]

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Keep Your Christmas Tree Fresh
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There is a little more than a slight concern about the condition of Christmas trees this year.
This is especially true where your prized Christmas tree may have come from an area that was in a severe drought.
Up front, most of our trees have come from areas that weren’t in a drought stricken area. […]

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Christmas tree farm puts ‘green’ in its evergreens
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A family run Christmas tree farm has been lauded for putting the green in its evergreens.
The Michigan Farm Bureau this week presented the Candy Cane Christmas Tree Farm its Proactive Leader in Ecology Management award. The farm in the Oakland County community of Oxford, about 30 miles north of Detroit, also has been certified […]

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Mini-global warming splits Christmas tree
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Christmas will be coming a little late to Belfast this year after a mini global warming disaster struck the city’s Christmas tree.
The 45ft Norway Spruce tree from Parkanaur near Dungannon, was cut down last week.
However, it quickly began to split in two.
A council spokesman said: “The wet summer and unseasonally dry autumn […]

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Rockefeller Christmas tree is a big one: 84 feet tall
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This year’s Rockefeller Center tree is 84 feet tall and 48 feet in diameter.
It’s scheduled to be cut down today by a two-man crew using a giant hand saw at the Shelton, Connecticut home of Joe and Judy Rivnyak.
The tree will then be hoisted by a huge crane onto a 115-foot long trailer […]

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Artificial Christmas tree for Point St Lucie City Hall
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An artificial Christmas tree will grace the front lawn of City Hall this year — whether the City Council wants it or not.
City Manager Don Cooper asked city staff to cancel a lease agreement for the tree with Tavares-based Clark Sales Display after council members balked at the $11,750 price tag.
But the agreement required the […]

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Norway you’re having my Xmas tree
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THE tree had been selected and the axe was ready to fall.
But a last-minute change of heart has scuppered plans for a 40ft spruce from Norway to take pride of place at Edinburgh’s Christmas celebrations.
The Norwegian region of Hordaland, based around the city of Bergen, has made an annual gift of a Christmas […]

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Christmas trees to help spread some joy this holiday season
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Christmas morning will come a little early this year.
That’s the theme of next weekend’s Christmas Gala sponsored by the Junior Civic League.
“This is the largest fundraiser of the year, and we’re all excited about it,” said Kris Ramsey, publicist chairwoman for the 19th annual gala.
More than $450,000 will be given back the local organizations that […]

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Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree Selected
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A 60-year-old Norway spruce from Shelton will be heading to New York City as this year’s Rockefeller Center Christmas tree.
The 84-foot-tall tree in Joseph and Judy Rivnyak’s backyard is being prepared to make the trip to the Big Apple next week. The Rivnyaks have lived at the home on Soundview Avenue for 32 years and […]

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City stuck with $11,750 fake Christmas tree
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Port St. Lucie City employees tried to cancel plans for an $11,750 fake Christmas tree today after city council members balked at the price tag but were told it’s too late: the faux fir has already been ordered and is scheduled for delivery to city hall next week.
“It’s just Christmas in Port St. Lucie,” sighed […]

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How Long Does it Take to Assemble Your Christmas Tree?
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Decorating for the holidays is a tradition for many families that centers around the Christmas tree. For many of us, this means dragging various boxes full of branches out of storage only to be confused by time-consuming assembly.
As you dump the different sizes of branches on the floor, sorting through numbered and alphabetical codes […]

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Don’t pine for the fake one.. a real tree is best
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IT can be a tricky operation, but putting up the Christmas tree does not normally involve removing the front door or abseiling from the ceiling.
However, when the first real tree in five years was installed and decorated at Jenners department store over the weekend, a military-style effort was required to get 40-foot Norwegian spruce […]

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Fashion Island’s Christmas tree arrives
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Fashion Island’s traditional two-month celebration of Christmas officially began Thursday, as 115 feet of holiday cheer arrived on a flatbed truck.
The towering white fir, shipped from Mt. Shasta and said to be the largest Christmas tree in the country, will be adorned with thousands of ornaments, bows, ribbons and white lights during the […]

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“HandyCane” inventor finds way to make Xmas tree watering eas
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It’s one of those mundane chores that annoys even the most cheerful Christmas enthusiast but is quickly forgotten shortly after completion in the glow of the holiday spirit: watering the Christmas tree.
Everyone knows the drill. Fill up whatever container that has been designated to do the job year after year with water, get down on […]

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Drought hasn’t hurt Christmas trees
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Cline Church has been in the Christmas tree business for 30 years.
“We grow strictly the Frasier fur. Which here in North Carolina we like to call the Cadillac of Christmas trees,” Church said.
His 400 acre farm has about 150,000 Christmas trees. Around 20,000 will be cut for this holiday season.
“It’s really pleasing to know you’re […]

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Flood victims may need Christmas trees
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When the July flood in Osawatomie washed away the contents of nearly 300 homes, Christmas was far from their minds.
But with the holidays quickly approaching, many of those families have lost all their holiday decorations and Christmas trees.
Osawatomie residents, along with Kansas Assisting Recovery Efforts officials, are planning an event to give decorated Christmas trees […]

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Despite wildfires, yule trees will be plentiful this holiday season
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The county’s largest Christmas tree farm was scorched by last week’s wildfires, but local growers and retailers said they do not expect the destruction of the Pinery in Rancho Bernardo to make Christmas trees especially scarce or expensive this holiday season.
There will still be plenty of trees available at the Christmas tree lots popping up […]

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Denmark: Fewer Christmas trees cost more
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Danish Christmas tree buyers this year are paying for a soft tree market several years ago, when fewer trees were planted.
Earlier this decade the country’s Christmas tree growers cut back the number of saplings they planted annually from 25 million to 10 million to counter lower prices, the Copenhagen Post reported.
Now the first of the […]

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