[SandRat]

Joanne and Ron Wagner look at the Christmas ornament Kelly VanRompacy, a seventh-grader at Sierra Vista Middle School, made for the recent Festival of Trees at the Mall at Sierra Vista. The Wagners purchased the tree and donated it back to the school. (Ed Honda-Herald/Review

[CAluvdubya]

Now that puts me in the Christmas mood!

[ladyjane]

So they have a Festival of Trees and a Holiday Parade at the local mall.

Sounds more like a marketing scheme rather than a celebration of Christ’s birth.