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Published daily in Bend, Oregon, by Western Communications, Inc. Copyright 2007.
By Leon Pantenburg / The Bulletin
December 2, 2008
My Dad loved trees, and particularly enjoyed planting them. So, during the holiday season, he would buy a live Christmas tree.
We’d go to a tree farm near Gifford, Iowa, sometime in early December, look around for a pretty and well-shaped evergreen and dig it up. The root ball was....
