Festival of Trees 7th year in London Ontario

The Ontario Lung Association is hosting it’s 7th Annual winter holiday event, The Festival of Trees. The fundraiser started Wednesday and runs until the end of today.

Visitors can view beautifully decorated artificial Christmas trees, wreaths, and other items donated by local businesses and individuals. People can purchase raffle tickets for the opportunity to win a beautiful holiday gift. The winners ticket will be drawn on Sunday evening, there are lots of artificial trees to be won.

 

Its not the only reason the celebrate the event. Its national Lung month in November. It’s an

national health campaign organized by the Lung Association. “Its actually quite perfect we do this fundraiser in November”. Pallens says. ” To make the public aware of these facts that they might not know about right around the holidays”

 Their was a lot of different actives they ran throughout the week including carol singalong. Irene was one of these carolers. Shes battled with Lung disease for many years but that doesn’t stop her from singing along with the crowd. ” It’s about having fun while informing people of something that didn’t know before”. Irene said that “Its meeting all these people who’s lives changed and stories she’s heard from this fundraiser and the Lung Association” that is the reason she volunteers for the festival of trees.

 

The fundraiser made around 12’000 dollars last year but it’s not the money that’s Pallen’s concern, its about raising awareness to the public . The majority of the money went towards research and tobacco prevention programs.

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