After months of working and planning, Douglas Mayor Dr. Michael Gomez announced that the National Christmas tree will travel through Douglas on its way to Washington, D.C.
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The tree will be making it’s way into Douglas Saturday, November 14, around 3:30pm and will be staged for the community’s viewing pleasure in between 10th and 11th St. on G. Ave.
National Forest and City officials will be in attendance to make brief speeches and announcements to kick off this holiday season. Musical entertainment will also be being performed by the Douglas High School Marching Band. A youth choir will also be on hand to grace the community with their angelic voices. Food and beverages will be sold on site to help raise funds for a local community youth group.
The entire community is invited to take part of this historic event on November 14th at 4pm in the historic downtown Douglas.
As part of the event:
√ Public works will leave barricades out on the corners of 10th and 11th so DPD can close off the streets.
√ DPD will encounter the tree either on Chino Rd or K-mart parking lot- 3:30-4pm
√ DPD will escort tree into town and stage it in between 10th and 11th St-3:30-4pm
√ Fire will be on hand to water the tree if needed
√ Douglas Cub Scout Pack 430 to start things off with the pledge of allegiance- 4:00pm
√ Jason Magnum, Capitol tree coordinator: will make a presentation and speak to the community then will introduce Mayor and Council- 4:10
√ Mayor Gomez speech- 4:15pm
√ The DHS Marching band will be performance- 4:25pm
√ Mexican youth music performance – 4:40pm
√ Mayor Gomez thanking all performers and capitol tree coordinators.4:55pm
√ Tree will be escorted out of town by DPD
√ The police explorers will be raising funds by selling food and beverages
√ Recreation staff will be decorating the placita area.
Background
TheNational Christmas tree is an 85-foot blue spruce from the White Mountains of Arizona.
The trip to Washington D.C. began Saturday when “the people’s Christmas tree” was cut down from its eastern Arizona home about 5 miles west of Alpine, in the Apache-Sitgreaves National Forests. Over the next week and a half, the specimen blue spruce will tour the state on a 105-foot flatbed truck before beginning its cross-country trip to the Capitol in time for a lighting ceremony in early December. At that time, U.S. Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi will flip the switch to illuminate the tree’s 10,000 decorative lights, culminating a tree-selection process that began more than two years ago.
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