The Fairmont Kea Lani’s 32nd annual Tree Lighting Ceremony on Dec. 1 will kick off the resortʻs 10th annual Tree of Hope Campaign, benefiting the Maui Food Bank’s Aloha Backpack Buddies Program.
About five years ago, local sculptor Lawrence Feir was living his best life. Not long separated from an unhappy marriage of 20-something years, he reconnected with himself by making new
Three years ago, a Middle Tennessee community experienced one of the most painful days in their history. Now, a symbol of hope has emerged to remember those lost.
Tree turned into hope following last year s tornadoes
Weakened by the tornado a year ago, and worried about the next one, a Mt. Juliet family decided in a time of struggle to turn their old tree into a new sign of hope.
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MT. JULIET, Tenn. (WTVF) â So much has changed in Mt. Juliet in just one year. In the Barrett Drive neighborhood, for all of the homes that have been rebuilt, there have been some that have chosen not to rebuild.
On these streets, a patchwork of old and new. Gloria and Jay Kirkland, now proudly display what the tornado, in a sense, left behind. The tree stump was carved and painted into a bald eagle with an American flag below it.