Shop St. Michael Group and St. Michael-Albertville Rotary Plant Holiday Tree
The Shop St. Michael group and the St. Michael-Albertville Rotary planted this year's holiday tree at St. Michael City Center for November 27 tree lighting ceremony.
The Shop St. Michael and St. Michael-Albertville Rotary groups combined efforts and planted a holiday tree Wednesday at St. Michael City Center.
The groups have planned a Holiday Tree Lighting celebration for November 27. The event will include caroling by St. Michael-Albertville High School’s Choir, caroling and a sing-a-long led by the Crow River Senior Center Choir, holiday stories read by Friends of the Library and local Rotarians, and a special visit from Santa. The event will include a toy and children’s book drive for the Hanover Area Food Shelf. Free hot dogs, chili, cookies and cocoa will be served.
The tree will be lit by St. Michael’s very own “Holiday Cheermeister” who will be nominated by the community and selected by Shop Saint Michael and St. Michael-Albertville Rotary. Nomination forms will available at member Shop Saint Michael businesses, St. Michael City Hall, and at www.stmarotary.org. Nominations will be accepted through Oct. 31.
St. Michael’s Holiday Tree Project is being funded through a $6,200 grant from Rotary District 5950. The tree, a Serbian Spruce, was donated by Shop Saint Michael and provided by Schulte’s Greenhouse & Nursery.
In addition to the tree, the project includes LED lights (blue, white and gold in honor of Rotary and STMA Schools), two public benches, a decorative trash receptacle, and electric service. St. Michael-Albertville High School’s industrial technology class is making a commemorative sign for the tree with materials funded by St. Michael-Albertville Rotary.
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St. Michael City Hall
11800 Town Center Driver, St. Michael, MN -
St. Michael-Albertville High School
5800 Jamison Ave NE, Saint Michael, MN -
Crow River Senior Center
11800 Town Center Dr Suite 200, Saint Michael, MN -
Schulte's Greenhouse and Nursery
2960 Labeaux Ave NE, Saint Michael, MN
Bex
1:59 pm on Thursday, September 20, 2012
A "holiday" tree? I'm no expert on what symbols are use on which holidays, but the only one that I know that uses a conifeous tree is Christmas.
STMA Parent
2:23 pm on Thursday, September 20, 2012
Sounds like a CHRISTMAS tree to me when they refer to Santa stopping by during their lighting cermony in November. Call it for what it is; don't worry about upseting the 5% of the population that have to be "politically correct". Their politically correctness of calling it a "holiday tree" now upsets me and I find it to be an offensive term to use when it is clearly a CHRISTMAS tree.
Willow
6:52 pm on Thursday, September 20, 2012
That will make for a very pretty Christmas tree this December!
Homegrown
8:53 am on Friday, September 21, 2012
I was lucky enough to witness the planting of the tree and see first hand how excited those involved in the planning and organizing process were to be able to do this for the STMA community. Call it what you want, but until someone donates private land and private funding it has to be labeled a Holiday Tree. Let's just be thankful that we have Shop St. Michael and the Rotary around to try to bring our community together. So THANK YOU to everyone who was involved in making this happen. I for one am excited and think that it looks great!
Mike Schoemer
8:56 am on Friday, September 21, 2012
I believe "Homegrown" has hit the nail on the head - It's on city property, therefore there has to be sensitivity. I'm sure the Shop St. Michael and Rotary groups would be happy if you called it whatever you want. It's a very nice tree and a good community project. Excited to see them light it up in November.
STMA Parent
9:45 am on Friday, September 21, 2012
Sensitivity? Calling a CHRISTMAS tree a holiday tree is offensive to 95% of the population; so who is the sensitivity for?
Linda Borchardt
11:10 am on Monday, September 24, 2012
I am Catholic and DO NOT find the Holiday Tree offensive. I will refer to it as the Christmas tree among my friends and family. I am proud to have been part of funding this project and hope that we, as a community, can celebrate our wonderful town, our beautiful facilities, and build commradery around our Town Tree this November. Celebrate the fact that we can celebrate whatever Holiday we choose here in the USA. Pray for world PEACE..... LB