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Fantasy of Trees Auction
The East Tennessee Children’s Hospital of Knoxville sponsors an annual Fantasy of Trees dinner and auction, whose proceeds benefit the needs of the patients and their families. Two teacher-sponsored clubs at St. Mary’s School—Fantasy of Trees club and Gingerbread House club—create student-designed and constructed items for this event. This year’s tree was the “Farmyard Country Christmas Tree,” complete with a menagerie of cows, horses, pigs, sheep, chickens—and a red barn tree topper! In keeping with the event theme of “Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree,” the school’s gingerbread “Brenda Lee’s Diner” won a blue ribbon in the amateur division!
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The Giving Tree/Crazy Quilt Friendship Center
Every year St. Mary's School 8th graders make ornaments with the names and ages of needy children from the Jellico area of northeast Tennessee and ask that school and parish families take one ornament from either tree and purchase an appropriate gift for that child. About 600 children benefit from this project, and St. Mary's is the main supplier of these gifts--the only gift most of these children will receive.
The Crazy Quilt Friendship Center in Jellico sponsors the Christmas party at which these gifts are distributed. Crazy Quilt is a community action center for the rurally impoverished mountain community and allows low- and fixed-income families to obtain clothing and other items and low or no cost.
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