Capitol Christmas Tree tour stops in Whitefish
Brenda Ahearn/ Daily Inter Lake | Hagadone News Network | UPDATED 7 years, 6 months AGO
Hundreds turned out in Whitefish on Monday afternoon for the arrival of the Capitol Christmas Tree, carefully packaged in a Plexiglas box and ready to travel to Washington, D.C. The tree was cut last week from the Kootenai National Forest and is an 81-foot-tall Engelmann spruce.
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