For the seventh year, Montgomery County Community College’s Student Nursing Club has participated in the national Trees for Troops initiative, providing 170 Christmas trees for military families to make their holidays brighter and happier.

Each year, nursing students hold fundraisers to purchase the trees at a discounted price. This year, the students raised $600 by selling raffle tickets for a donated HP 15” laptop at the annual Whitpain Community Festival, according to a press release from MCCC. 

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On Nov. 30, nursing students Kimberly Fortino-Chaples of Lansdale, Sunday Bassey of Norristown and Kendra Schultz of Birdsboro, along with Dr. Concetta Fiorentino, Nursing Faculty/Student Nurse Club Advisor, and Dr. Linda Roy, the Director of the Nursing Program joined members of the Pennsylvania National Guard, legislators, state and local officials and other community members at Bustard’s Christmas Trees in Lansdale to launch the national Trees for Troops weekend campaign.

Owners Jay and Glenn Bustard invited the students because they are “one of the most active groups” to partner with Bustard’s to support this special initiative that sends Christmas trees to military families and troops.

Trees for Troops was launched by the Christmas SPIRIT Foundation in 2005. Since then, more than 193,237 real trees have been delivered to military families throughout the United States and overseas. Trees are contributed by Bustard’s and about 30 other Christmas tree growers and retail lots in the U.S. To learn more, visit http://www.treesfortroops.org.

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