Festival of Trees 2019 Breaks Record
ZANESVILLE, Ohio – Christmas is nearly here and as halls are
decked, the Zanesville Muskingum County Chamber of Commerce has
tallied final numbers from their annual yuletide fundraiser. The 27th
annual Festival of Trees took place last week and saw a record
breaking number of entries and a record breaking amount of funds
raised to support economic development as a result. Dana Matz,
Director of the Chamber of Commerce, says the event was a success.
“We had a record
amount of entries this year—223—that resulted in a record number
for us. We had 59 thousand 600 dollars. It was a great turnout by our
community. We’d like to thank everybody that had an entry, that bid
on trees, that purchased trees—wreaths and stockings. And of
course, to all the volunteers that gave their time and effort to make
this a success.”
The Chamber of
Commerce is a non-profit organization and all $59,600 raised last
week will go towards improving the local economy through the support
of area businesses.
“We are a
not-for-profit business; and this helps run our organization and what
we do—in the most simplest sense is we are in business for
businesses. We do advocacy at the city, county, state, and federal
level. We answer questions to help people with discount programs with
workers comp and on insurance. We are connecting people—and that’s
probably what we do every day.”
There are currently
699 member organizations that belong to the Chamber of Commerce.
Entries in the large tree division that brought in the highest volume
of bids were the Continuing Healthcare Solutions tree, the Dutro
tree, and the WHIZ tree.
