TORCHING WON'T STOP RETURN OF TREE.Byline: EUGENE TONG Staff Writer GLENDALE -- Bells, stars and a few security guards will be on hand today as the city Christmas tree Christmas tree Evergreen tree, usually decorated with lights and ornaments, to celebrate the Christmas season. The use of evergreen trees, wreaths, and garlands as symbols of eternal life was common among the ancient Egyptians, Chinese, and Hebrews. returns to the civic center after a vandal torched it last year. Officials are expecting hundreds at the 22nd Holiday Tree Lighting at City Hall's central plaza, where a crew has erected a 28-foot noble fir The Noble Fir (Abies procera) is a western North American fir, native to the Cascade Range and Coast Range mountains of extreme northwest California and western Oregon and Washington in the United States. decorated with 10,000 lights and 6,000 bells. City park rangers will be standing guard and providing crowd control. The tree is returning after a man that police said was disgruntled dis·grun·tle tr.v. dis·grun·tled, dis·grun·tling, dis·grun·tles To make discontented. [dis- + gruntle, to grumble (from Middle English gruntelen; see over a parking ticket set the previous tree ablaze in January. A Superior Court judge sentenced Bruce Morrison This article is about the American politician. For the New Zealand cricketer, see Bruce Morrison (cricketer). Bruce Andrew Morrison (b. October 8, 1944 in New York City) is a former U.S. of Glendale to three years' probation and ordered him to pay the city $6,300 in restitution. ``Hopefully last year was a fluke fluke, parasitic flatworm of the trematoda class, related to the tapeworm. Instead of the cilia, external sense organs, and epidermis of the free-living flatworms, adult flukes have sucking disks with which they cling to their hosts and an external cuticle that ,'' said Karen Fries, the city's community services supervisor. Lisa Nolan, an operations supervisor overseeing tree purchase and decoration, takes comfort in the tree's proximity to police headquarters. ``Nobody would be dumb enough to torch it,'' she said. ``There's such a police presence.'' To hold this year's event, Nolan said she had to purchase new decorations, and acquire a tree, which usually costs between $1,500 to $2,000. It will stand until Jan. 8. ``It's starting over,'' she said. ``It's no big deal. We can't stop Christmas. ... We do it for the kids. But the adults, you sit back and watch them and they enjoy it every bit as much as the children do.'' The event is set for 7 tonight at City Hall, 613 E. Broadway. Singers from Balboa Elementary School Balboa Elementary School is an elementary school serves students in Kindergarten through sixth grade in the San Diego, California, United States, as part of the San Diego City Schools. and Glendale High are slated to perform. Call (818) 548-2002 for more information. eugene.tong(at)dailynews.com (818) 546-3304 |
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