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"We do a fresh cut on the bottom of the tree, drill it and put it in water so they are just as fresh as they can be and we will be ready to open to the public to start selling on Friday at 4:30 p.m. and then we will be open all day on Saturday from noon to 7:30 p.m. on Sunday and then everyday of the week after that from 4:30 to 7 p.m. until we are out of trees," said Maddox. Maddox says the club works hard to ensure that the trees are affordable and that all families can enjoy. "We do have some modest, smaller trees that are modestly priced and there's some of the larger trees (that) do get up in price a little bit but we believe that we have
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Christmas Tree Festival set for Saturday
The group will continue its long standing tradition by opening the lot this Friday on the lawn of the First Presbyterian Church. Lions member Marvel Maddox says a variety of trees are on their way this week to Seguin.
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Christmas tree lot to open (Seguin) -- The Seguin Sunrise Lions Club will be looking to spruce things up this holiday season with the operation of its annual Christmas tree lot.
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enough variety to meet everybody's financial needs," said Maddox. To help celebrate the opening of the lot, Maddox says the Lions Club in partnership with the First Presbyterian Church will be hostingAChristmas Tree Festival this Saturday at the tree lot. Maddox says the group deeply appreciates the church's partnership in preserving a deeply rooted tradition in Seguin. "Traditionally for a longtime, we were doing our lot at Plaza Del Rey and a new management company there changed their policy on not allowing outside folks to come and take up parking spot areas and so the First Presbyterian Church was kind enough to come to our rescue and allow us to have our lot their at the church and what we are really sponsoring together is the Christmas Tree Festival which will be Nov. 30 from 10 o'clock in the morning to 1 o'clock and the church helps us out with that. The ladies of the church make cookies and stuff like that and help us out and so that's been a real nice partnership that we've appreciated there," said Maddox. See TREES, page 3
(Seguin) -- In 2014, 45 percent of TLU’s first-year students were first generation.
these students often have to choose between going home for Thanksgiving or going home for Christmas. Since they almost always choose Christmas, the Office of First-Year and Campus Programs started hosting a special Thanksgiving dinner in 2014.
That number jumped to 65 percent in 2018. With more than half of the overall student body identifying as first generation, the Office of Student Life and Learning (SL&L) is focused on serving the needs of this growing group, specifically when it comes to university holidays. Many of
“We now call it Firstgiving,” Samira López, director of TLU’s First-Year and Campus Programs said. “When our office started really getting to know our growing first-gen population, we noticed that going home for the holiday was an added expense for some. Also, many of them who live
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here don’t have vehicles and know their family may not be in a financial place to provide transportation for both trips.” They quickly realized how having a Thanksgiving event on campus would give them a place to celebrate with their TLU family, including many first-generation faculty and staff who also attend. Lopez even orders extra food and provides to-go containers for students to take back to their dorms. Moving to Seguin from McAllen, Texas was a major change for recent graduate Leslie Flores ’19. See DINNER, page 3
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