The Rockefeller Christmas Tree that is!
We at Habitat for Humanity of Southern Santa Barbara County love to share cool ways that people, companies and cities are helping Habitat complete the mission of providing safe, decent, and affordable housing. If you're like us and you love seeing the big Rockefeller Tree each Christmas, you'll love this story:
The 2010 Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree will help build a Habitat for Humanity home
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After the holiday season, the 78th annual Christmas Tree will be milled into lumber in Rockefeller Plaza. The lumber will be used for the framing of exterior walls of a home built by Habitat for Humanity of Greater Newburgh, located in the mid-Hudson Valley of New York, near the community of Mahopac where the tree grew.
"The Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree is a symbol of the holiday season for millions of people across the country and around the world," said Jonathan Reckford, CEO of Habitat for Humanity International. "Habitat for Humanity is both humbled and proud to have an ongoing role in this great tradition, and with the help of volunteers, we will see that the lumber is put to good use to bring hope to a family in the form of better housing."
Habitat used the 2007 Rockefeller Center Christmas tree lumber to help build a home in Pascagoula, Miss., in partnership with a Hurricane Katrina survivor. Lumber from the 2008 tree was used to help build shelving in a multi-unit building constructed by Habitat for Humanity New York City. The 2009 Rockefeller Christmas tree lumber was used in the construction of a home in Stamford, Conn.
Fun slideshow of this years Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree: habitat.org/photogallery/2010/Rockefeller/index.html
