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Show The "FestivaT-of Trees," Salt Lake City's traditional Christmas season opener, is scheduled Wednesday through Saturday, Dec. 5-8, at the Salt Palace. ONE OF the most unique Christmas events anywhere in the country, the ninth annual an-nual Christmas benefit for Primary Children's Medical Center will be open from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. each day with over 200 trees creating a virtual vir-tual "enchanted forest" for visitors. Tickets will be on sale at the door. Tickets are priced at $1.50 for adults and 50 cents for children so everyone can enjoy the spectacle. BESIDES THE lighted trees the "Festival" features a Gift Boutique with thousands of handmade items, a brimming Sweet Shoppe, and continuous musical entertainment performing per-forming onstage. Each tree donated is original, one-of-a-kind. They are created and decorated by generous individuals, service and business organizations, churches and schools, for resale at the "Festival." Unusual trees this year feature fea-ture 1001 golden origami cranes, glittering machine gears, ice cream cones, turkey eggs designed with a dentist's drill, 130 tole-paint-ed Christmas bells, home-blown home-blown glass ornaments. ESPECIALLY for children will be Goldilocks and the Three Bears, Mr. and Mrs. Santa, gingerbread houses. Gnomes, . 200 elves, and enough animals in various shapes and sizes to fill several arks. After strolling through the aisles of "enchanted trees," a fine place for Christmas shopping is in the Gift Boutique Bou-tique and Sweet Shoppe. Hundreds of individuals from the intermountain area have been working for months on handsewn quilts, afghans, children's clothing, toys, Christmas decorations, and other gifts in the Gift Boutique. Bou-tique. tHE SWEET Shoppe will be crammed with homemade breads, cakes, cookies, gingerbread gin-gerbread men and houses, candies, and popcorn balls. A Small-Fry Shop has inexpensive inex-pensive treats for the youngsters. young-sters. Outstanding musical groups are scheduled for continuous musical delight. These include BYU's "Young Ambassadors", Small World Entertainers, award-winning Sweet Adelines and a'cap-pella a'cap-pella choirs from many area high schools. SPONSORED BY the Women's Endowment Committee, Com-mittee, the "Festival" was orginally conceived and organized or-ganized as a "Gift of Love" for the children at Primary Children's Medical Center. Funds raised will be used for medical treatment of children at Primary Children's. Primary Children's provides specialized medical treatment treat-ment for thousands of children each year coming from the intermountain area. Under the leadership of chairman Annette Ghiz, with Carla Vietti and Barbara Frazier as cochairmen, the following committee members work throughout the year preparing for the Festival: Mary Lou Arveseth, Wendy Ashton, Jen Ban-gerter, Ban-gerter, LaVon Barton, Nancy Bennion, Carol Bertoch, Cherie Best, Dorene Brimhall, Lenore Brockbank, Carolyn Brooks, DeeAnn Brown, Nora Creer, Lynda Christensen, Thelma Davis, Sharon Day, Margaret Eberhardt, Chris Findlay, Fran Fish, Stephani Froisland. ALSO, NORMA Gephart, Sharon Goodrich, Laura Hayes, Janice Irwin, Pat Jackson, Mary Jolley, Maureen Kinsman, Shannon Larsen, Faye Layton, Susan Ludlow, Jeanne Martin, Kathie McArthur, ReNee McLelland, Marsha McNeil, Ardith Miller, Vickie Morgan. Mor-gan. Susan Palmer. Melissa Phillips, Norma Rasmussen, Judy Riley, Kathy Ringger, Loraine Spiers, Mary Taylor, Annette Uhrhan, Sandra Wilkins and Sharon Severe. BOARD MEMBERS of the Women's Endowment Committee Com-mittee include women from as far north as Huntsville and as far south as SDanish Fork. Any individuals or businesses interested in purchasing special trees, please call 968-2582 To donate tickets for underprivileged or handicapped children to attend at-tend the "Festival," call 295-8907. |
