Festival of Trees in Forks this weekend — breakfast with Santa, music, auction

FORKS — The 19th annual Festival of Trees sponsored by Soroptimist International of the Olympic Rain Forest is planned for First Congregational Church, 280 S. Spartan Ave., on Saturday and Sunday.

The theme of this year’s event is “The Twelve Days of Christmas.”

A breakfast with Santa will open the festival from 8 a.m. to 11 a.m. Saturday.

The festival then will close for lunch and reopen for an open house with refreshments, live music, a silent auction, decorated wreaths, a RADA knife sale and a raffle tree.

The raffle tree has a “Sound of Music” theme and will be decorated with both toy and fully functional musical instruments, musical notes and other items.

Soroptimist members will be back at the church at 7 p.m. for Moonlight Madness.

A live auction of decorated trees, most with accompanying premiums, begins at 1 p.m. Sunday.

For more information, phone 360-327-3609 or 360-374-6700.

Items for the silent auction can be donated by phoning Debbie McIntyre at 360-374-7535.

The festival serves as the group’s main fundraiser to fund the club’s charitable projects.

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