'Our schools need funding, this is a way we can help'
LEABURG, Ore. -- For many families celebrating Christmas, it is a tradition to venture out to a farm and pick the tree you take home and decorate.
Families can pick out their tree at Spring Creek Holly Farm, with half of the purchase price going to a worthy cause.
For each tree purchased, Spring Creek Holly Farm donates 50% of the money to any school the buyer chooses.
Farm manager Jim Russel said that the farm gave away $4,600 to schools in the Eugene and Springfield.
"Our schools need funding," Russel said. "If this is a way we can help the schools then we are doing a service to the community."
Soriah Ellison went out to Spring Creek Holly Farm on Sunday to pick out a tree with her grandparents.
"I felt good about it because my school does a lot of fundraisers and they don't usually make enough money for what they want so my school could close." Soriah said.
The farm is open from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. each day until Christmas.
It's for a good cause....the money goes to buy coffee and smokes for the teachers break room.Â
 @flor3nc3 Obviously, you do not have children in school. All of the money our PTO brings in goes for supplies for our art and science projects, PE specialists (yes, we need to pay for one ourselves now) and helps out families who need help at different times of the year. This is how we bridge the gap left by the budget cuts we've experienced over the last 20+ years.Â
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@SAB17 @flor3nc3 Are you absolutely certain that you know where the money goes. Do you get a receipt showing the amounts purchased? If you do fine. If the money goes to the general budget is is paying for a lot more that art supplies. You speak of budget cut gaps. Do you believe that the average private sector worker should be paying for something they could only dream of having (PERS). Is that fair? You people are all into this fair share stuff, right?
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