Volunteers help ship trees to troops

Volunteers recently spent a pine-scented morning with red noses and hands, braving the 30-degree weather with U.S. Army recruiters at Wahmhoff Farms Nursery in Gobles to help ship hundreds of Christmas trees to troops and their families around the country, reports MLive.

It took 56 volunteers and six Army recruiters 20 minutes to help load about 700 6- to 7-foot-tall trees onto three FedEx trucks with the help of conveyor belts from flat-bed farm trucks for the Trees for Troops program. The national program sends Christmas trees to more than 60 U.S. military bases to give to military personnel and their families.

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“It can (usually) take about two to three hours; today it took 20 minutes,” said Dan Wahmhoff, one of the brothers who owns the tree farm. “We had a lot of volunteers out here today.” Most years the event gets between 10 and 15 volunteers to help load the trucks, Wahmhoff said. “(This year) was the biggest turn out I’ve ever seen,” he said.

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Source: MLive.com