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Fire department sells nearly 400 Christmas trees

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Submitted by admin1 on Wed, 01/11/2017 - 11:16

By Correne Martin

The Prairie du Chien Fire Department’s Christmas tree sales are one of its biggest fundraisers. This year, nearly 400 fraziers, white pines and balsams made the department about $7,000. Those funds will be used for equipment, training, fire prevention and more.

“We had about 70 trees that were preordered,” Chief Harry Remz said, noting that the Fort Crawford Museum, McGregor Festival of Trees, Crossing Rivers Health and Sawmill Saloon are among the regular customers. “The rest are sold in the lot.”

Nelson True Value in Prairie du Chien has allowed the fire department free use of its garden center grounds for Christmas tree sales since the very beginning of this fire department endeavor. Remz believes the department has been selling trees for around 25 years.

“When it started out, the fire department was actually working for somebody else. Then, they took it over on their own,” he stated.

In addition to True Value’s in-kind donation, Mediacom and Alliant Energy have supplied utilities for the department. Plus, Bassett Trucking, of Wauzeka, provides a semi, a driver and time to travel to Hancock, pick up and deliver the trees.

Tate’s Tree Farm in Hancock, which is a member of the Wisconsin and national Christmas tree growers associations, is the supplier.

“We’ve been told our prices are too low,” Remz said. “But our supplier gives us a deal and we pass it on to our customers.”

In addition to the Christmas trees, the fire department sells fresh wreaths of different sizes that have become quite popular as well.

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