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he switch will be flipped to illuminate Holladay City’s Christmas tree on Monday, Dec. 1. The festivities begin at 7 p.m. at the Holladay Village Plaza, 4660 South 2300 East. The tree lighting ceremony will include free hot cocoa and cookies. Santa and Mrs. Claus will also be there to visit with children. This is the fourth annual event, but this year, new shops and restaurants will be open at the plaza for the estimated 300 people who are expected to attend. This year the tree comes from Kathryn Nielson’s yard. She is a longtime Holladay resident who said the tree was planted almost 30 years ago after it served as the Christmas tree in their home. “We called the city to see if they would like to use our tree because we needed to cut it down. It was blocking much of our patio. But the city said it already had a tree. Then, we got a call that they wanted our tree and they showed up to cut it down a couple of days later,” she said. Nielson doesn’t know the exact age of the tree. “We don’t remember the exact year it was our Christmas tree, but we counted 30 definite rings after the tree was cut down,” she said. Nielson said the tree was originally 6 feet tall. “But it grew and grew and grew and covered half of our patio.” Nielson said they planted the tree too close to their home and now, without the tree, the yard looks pretty bare. l
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Holladay City Set To Light Up Its Christmas Tree By Tammy Nakamura
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This tree, donated by Kathryn Nielson, will soon be covered in Christmas lights in anticipation of Holladay City’s tree lighting ceremony.
Holladay Teacher Brings Christmas To The Classroom By Marci Heugly
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olladay resident Kaylene White loves her job as a teacher at the Jordan Applied Technology Center. This year, it’s really helping her get in the Christmas spirit as she helps the 19 members of her teacher education class decorate and donate a Christmas tree and a gingerbread house to the Festival of Trees. “Because this is a teacher education program, and because these students want to be either general or special education teachers, and because this helps Primary Children’s Hospital, that’s a great connection,” White said. “We decided to do this as part of our
FCCLA service project.” All 19 are members of Family, Career and Community Leaders of America. The white Christmas tree entitled “Candy Cane Christmas” will be decorated in red, white and green decorations and will be surrounded by a big candy cane fence. The gingerbread house, made by four of the students, will be called “The Candy Cane Palace,”
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“If there’s going to be a million more people coming through
our community in the coming years to get to the canyons, how are we going to accommodate them? ”
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