AKRON, Ohio – One of Northeast Ohio’s most breathtaking holiday events, the Akron Children’s Hospital Holiday Tree Festival, officially kicks off this weekend.
The John S. Knight Center will be filled with nearly 150 ornately decorated christmas trees.
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“Every year I think it can’t get any prettier, and it always does,” said Festival Chairperson Mary Leuka.
“The trees are blank when they first come in, and they start decorating to whatever theme they have in mind,” said Leuka.
This year’s themes are wide ranging from nutcrackers to clowns, elves, sports, and Halloween.
They are created by families, by clubs and organizations including Boy Scouts, corporations, and schools.
A tree created by an art class from Green High School inspired by an effort to collect used aluminum cans to raise money to help burn victims.
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Another tree donated by the RTA was fashioned out of old buttons.