Archive for February, 2007

February 25th, 2007

Hospice honors local man’s generosity – Cadillac News

Hospice honors local man’s generosityCadillac News, MI - Feb 21, 2007He chose to sell Christmas trees because he likes to be outdoors. In high school he used to get permission to leave school to harvest and trim the trees. …

February 25th, 2007

Christmas cheer continues at council – Sommerset County Gazette

Christmas cheer continues at councilSommerset County Gazette, UK - 14 hours agoThe scheme has helped the Trust to save woods and trees, as well as cutting down the amount of waste that traditionally gets binned over Christmas. …

February 25th, 2007

Icy winters devastate tiny birds – Canyon Courier

Icy winters devastate tiny birdsCanyon Courier, CO - Feb 22, 2007The ponderosa pines looked like flocked Christmas trees, but even more magical were the willows and cottonwoods. The next morning, the coloring of the …

February 25th, 2007

My mailbox runneth over, and that's good – Orlando Sentinel

My mailbox runneth over, and that's goodOrlando Sentinel, FL - 16 hours ago… of my story on the ever-popular passed-down-in-families ceramic Christmas trees that ran during the holidays, the e-mail inbox kept me busy last week. …

February 25th, 2007

Christmas loses top billing at forest – Los Angeles Daily News

Christmas loses top billing at forestLos Angeles Daily News, CA - Feb 23, 2007Nowadays, families want their Christmas trees to be Douglas fir or noble fir instead, and those are imported from Oregon and Washington. …Small trees may be a perfect fit OCRegisterall 2 news articles

February 25th, 2007

DKMM facility open Saturday (The Marion Star)

MARION — The DKMM Compost Facility on Herr Road will be open from 8 a.m. to noon on Saturday, Feb. 24. Bring in your yard waste, Christmas trees for recycling. The recycling drop-off will also be open for aluminum cans, steel cans, newspaper, plastics #1 or #2, paperboard, and cardboard.

February 25th, 2007

Chapter One of Ravi Howard’s “Like Trees, Walking” (Montgomery Advertiser)

Early Saturday Morning, March 21, 1981

February 25th, 2007

The gift of giving (The Pantagraph)

For most of us, at least part of the meaning of Christmas involves giving, and many of us feel inclined to give outside the ritual of family exchange.

February 25th, 2007

The (fake?) war on Christmas (The Pantagraph)

This year, the City of Chicago pushed New Line Cinemas out of a sponsorship of a recent event because the company would have used it as an advertising vehicle for the movie “The Nativity Scene.”

February 25th, 2007

Christmas loses top billing at forest (Los Angeles Daily News)

SANTA CLARITA – Frosty’s Forest Christmas Tree Farm will be offering a tad fewer trees and a lot more plants as the owner converts half the farm to a nursery operation.