By Patrick McCready
When it comes to trees, it doesn’t matter if it comes from an arc welder’s torch or if it was chopped down by hand.
This year for the Peninsula College traditional Tree Lighting Ceremony, Dec. 3, the tree was very different from the metal tree from last year.
“The guy who did the tree last year isn’t here this year,” Jeremiah Johnson, adviser to the Associated Student Council, said.
Jaedyn Joers, vice president of programming for the said that they would be getting a tree cut down from the Lazy-J Tree Farm.
“We will be donating the tree after the event,” Joers said. The tree will be up until Dec. 10 in the Pirate Union Building.
Joers also stated that the purpose of the Tree Lighting Ceremony is that it allows the international students from all the different countries represented here on campus to partake in the American tradition.
Joers said that there will also be cookie decorating during the lighting ceremony.
The PC Welding Program made the tree last year and then it was sent off to Festival of Trees to be auctioned.
Jeramie O’Dell, instructor of the Welding Program, said that the only trees this year made by his program were commissioned.
“We have done what we need to do,” O’Dell said.
The trees this year is going to go to the Festival of Trees, which is an event, hosted by the Olympic Medical Center Foundation.
The welding program trees, named “Cosmos” and “A Parisian Christmas,” were sponsored by the two businesses Necessities and Temptations and Price Ford/Lincoln. They sold for a total of $4,800, “Cosmos” made $3,100,i, and “A Parisian Christmas” made $1,700 respectively. All of the proceeds went to the OMCF.
