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For the forth year in a row the North Georgia LEGO® Train Club (NGLTC) has
sponsored a holiday tree at the Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta’s (CHOA)
Festival of Trees.
     
The NGLTC tree is decorated with LEGO® ornaments built by patients of the CHOA,
local school children and NGLTC club members. Second graders from Matt
Elementary School in Forsyth County spent a morning building ornaments to help
decorate the tree. The students were excited to have the opportunity to play and
at the same time help out other children who where in need.
We held two building sessions with the patients of Egleston children’s hospital.
The patients and family members gathered in the hospital’s activity room for an
afternoon of LEGO® ornament building and some fun time away from being sick.
Once all the ornaments were completed each one was prepared for the tree. This
year the NGLTC was given the honor once again of being a “Focus tree”, which
means that our tree was set away from the other 200 trees at the festival and
placed next to Santa’s area at the festival.
Our tree was a 10-foot tree decorated over 300 ornaments, 3,700 lights and
topped off with a shiny gothic LEGO cross. Also included was a peppermint
holiday train that traveled under the tree past two small LEGO villages.
The tree was on display to the over 900,000 vistors from December 4th – December
12th and then was sold to help support the Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta
system.
Plus December 9th was declared LEGO day at the festival, the NGLTC set up a
large free style building area where children could come and spend time building
their own LEGO creations. All of the children’s creations were put on display at
the festival. LEGO goodies and official LEGO Master builder cards were given to
all the children who participated in the fun.
The Festival of Trees, Atlanta’s premier holiday event, benefits Children’s
Healthcare of Atlanta. Visitors can stroll through 150,000 square feet of
decorated trees, wreaths and decorator vignettes created by the city’s top
artists and designers. The Festival also features magnificent gingerbread
houses, an assortment of specialty shops and an array of children’s activities.
This extraordinary event has become a tradition of Atlanta’s holiday season
while raising much needed money for quality services and facilities for children
at Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta. The NGLTC is proud to be a part of this
event and hope to continue supporting the CHOA in future events.
The NGLTC would like to thank LEGO® and LEGO® Retail for their support of this
project, the tree display could not have happened with out it.
jt
James J. Trobaugh
North Georgia LEGO Train Club
http://www.ngltc.org
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