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‘Tis the season!

‘Tis the season!

The holiday season is officially here and the smell of evergreen fills the Legislative Building with the arrival of this year’s Holiday Kids’ Tree! The tree, delivered November 28th, comes from Rainier, WA and was donated by Weyerhaeuser’s Vail Tree Farm. The Noble fir stands at 30-feet tall and will be adorned with over 7,000 LED lights and stuffed animals for this year’s theme of “Friends of the Forest”. The “Friends of the Forest” theme features animals native to the State of…

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Bye, Holiday Tree

Bye, Holiday Tree

As Blood Sweat & Tears once sang, what goes up must come down. That was the case with this year’s Holiday Kids’ Tree, which was removed by DES workers Monday morning after the 25-foot Noble fir stood tall in the Legislative Building rotunda the past four weeks. (Photo courtesy of Patrick McDonald)

Holiday Kids’ Tree is here, lighting event Friday

Holiday Kids’ Tree is here, lighting event Friday

Wearing his black overcoat, Gov. Inslee helps DES employees haul the Holiday Kids’ Tree into the Legislative Building. (Photo courtesy of Patrick McDonald) If you can’t tell by seeing it, you can by the evergreen scent: The state Holiday Kids’ Tree has arrived and is standing tall in the Legislative Building rotunda. Gov. Jay Inslee joined several Department of Enterprise Services workers Monday morning bringing in the 25-foot Noble fir, donated by Winkelman’s Tree Farm in Olympia. The tree will…

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