MANHATTAN — You can’t have Christmas without a Christmas tree. One local organization has been busy selling them this season in an effort to raise money for youth activities in the Manhattan area.
The Manhattan Breakfast Optimists Club shut down tree sales this week and club president Keith Behnke says they nearly sold out all their inventory, even despite the blizzard the area experienced the weekend they opened after Thanksgiving.
Behnke said the sale, which usually garners between $8,000 to $9,000, wrapped up with less than 30 trees left.
The remaining trees will be left outside the gate on Plymate Lane, and anything not sold will be delivered to a tree collection area that uses them for a fish habitat .
