A nursery in Gobles is collecting Christmas trees for soldiers this weekend. For the third year in a row, Wahmhoff Farms is accepting donations for the "Trees For Troops" program, which sends free Christmas trees and greeting cards to military families all over the world. Wahmhoff's Betsy Perales says that if you go to the nursery on M-40 this weekend and buy a tree for 25 dollars, it will be sent to one of three possible US military bases:
Some trees have already been collected, but the big push will be this weekend:
Perales says that the trees will be loaded up and shipped out on Monday:
More than 700 farms around the country take part in Trees For Troops, which last year collected over 17-thousand Christmas trees for soldiers. You can find out more at www.treesfortroops.org .
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