Christmas is still more than a month away but designers have less than two weeks to create and deliver their holiday trees for the annual Hospice of Wrangell Christmas Tree Lane fundraising display and sale.
Holiday décor and decorated trees of most any material except real trees can be delivered between 10 a.m. and 1 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 21, and 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Monday, Nov. 23, at the Nolan Center.
The trees will be sold in a silent auction to support Hospice of Wrangell.
Bidding opens Tuesday, Nov. 24, and closes at 1 p.m. Friday, Dec. 18. Winning bidders can pick up their trees the next day.
Until the trees are sold and taken to their new homes, they will be on public display at the Nolan Center.
Hospice encourages people to get creative in their trees. Past entries have included trees made from plastic pipe and covered in garlands, as well as a tree built from driftwood.
Past sales of the donated, decorated trees usually raise about $1,000 a year, which goes toward medical equipment for people in town — a community loan closet — and printing costs for the organization’s information booklet.
