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Show Locals help at Festival of Trees By JUDY JENSEN Asst. Managing Editor Scores of local volunteers have helped create this year's Primary Children's Medical Center's Festival Fes-tival of Trees which begins Nov. 28 at the Salt Palace Exhibition Hall. This is the 20th year for the annual an-nual event which began in 197 1 as a project of Primary Children's Medical Center's Women's En dowment Board. According to the directors this will be one of the biggest big-gest and "best festivals yet." Julie Summers of Centerville is in charge of the "Kids Komer" again tins year. "I've been with the Festival for seven years and it just gets better and better," she said. Summers explained that the Kids Komer is designed to provide a place for children to enjoy themselves them-selves by creating a variety of pro jects. "We're especially excited about a new opportunity we're offering the children this year," said Summers. For a $5 fee, children may select clothing for any of 175 eight-inch-tall dolls. The child may then dress the doll, name it, and attach a card to the doll with the child's name printed on it. The child will then donate the doll to the festival to be distributed to children orated and donated one of the 300 trees that will be sold at the festival. Their creation carries a "nature theme" and is decorated with birds, nests and berries. During the previous 19 festivals, more than $5 million has been raised rais-ed for charity care. Last year's Festival Fes-tival of Trees raised $468,000 which was combined with other funds to provide care for 1,426 children. All proceeds from this year's event will be used to provide charity chari-ty care for needy children from throughout the Intermountain Area at Primary Children ' s Medical Center. The festival is produced by an 80-member, all volunteer board from throughout the state of Utah which in turn recruits 10 more each, for a basic organization of approx imately 800. Hundreds more donate the items for sale. Other Davis County volunteers who are chairing various areas of this year's festival include, Dorie Beck, Layton, Hostessing; Jeanette Goodson, Layton, Creative Cookies; Janie Heaps, Kaysville, Sweet Shoppe; Norma Jensen, Woods Cross, Speakers Bureau; Beth Kitchen, Centerville. Gallery of Gifts; Kaylene Mower, North Salt Lake, Kids Korner Co-chair; Helen Porter, Bountiful, Sweet Shoppe Co-chair. The public is invited to attend the festival which will be open from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. on Wednesday, Nov. 28 through Saturday, Dec. 1. Tickets purchased at the door are $3 for adults and $ 1 .75 for children 1 1 and younger. Discount tickets are also available at all Zions Bank branches. who will be spending Christmas in the hospital. "This is an opportunity for kids to give to kids and we think it will be very rewarding for all of the children involved," said Summers. For the past 12 years the Festival of Trees has been a part of the Stubbs family Christmas celebration. celebra-tion. Marjean Stubbs of Bountiful is once again chairing the "Aisle of Wreaths." "We have five boys and we are all involved in the project," said Byron Stubbs, Marjean's husband. "My wife is gone from early morning morn-ing till late at night during this time of year, but we all love it," he said. This year's "involvement" of the Stubbs family includes setting up the 1 10 doors that are decorated with donated wreaths. The Aisle of Wreaths is an area of the festival which has grown each year. The doors are usually decorated with not only a wreath, but many times the entire door and doorstep is adorned with items complementing the wreath's theme. Sisters-in-law, Julie White and Karen Banks of Woods Cross are both chairing separate areas this year. White is in charge of "Small Fry," and Banks is once again organizing the ' 'Gingerbread Village." White said she loves being involved in-volved with the festival. "The Small Fry area caters to the youngest visitors at the festival, and to their budgets," explained White. Thousands of small, handmade, felt containers are stuffed with candy and sold at a nominal cost. This year Ninja Turtles will most likely be the big seller, said White. They also have candy cane mice and a variety of other packages. "Last year we sold 20,000 popcorn pop-corn balls and 20,000 homemade suckers, and we expect to top that this year," said White. The gingerbread villages get bigger and more creative each year, according to Banks. "This year we have a house that is decorated not only on the outside, but on the inside too," she said. The donor has used wall paper to decorate dec-orate the rooms on the inside of the creation. A gingerbread carrousel is also part of this year's gingerbread village. Over 40 gingerbread creations crea-tions are available for sale. Banks and White have also dec- if . j r - - -; w ? vV i f 3 I '-Vk I I ' vv -f" r 4t v :- v w v' ! 1 ; i 4 : J ; ' 4 1 H v LaS f of , , . Or ' Xi ' - - ' ' ,.. ., .... w,..,....,!... Hundreds of beautifully decorated Christmas trees will highlight this year's Festival of Trees in Salt Lake City. The annual event provides medical care for needy children at the hospital. |