FAIRBANKS, Alaska (KTUU) – Leaders from the nonprofit Kiwanis Club of Fairbanks say they’ve been able to keep prices stable during their annual Tanana Valley Fairgrounds Christmas tree sale, even as the U.S. has seen higher-than-average inflation.
It means they’re able to keep supporting efforts to help children in the Fairbanks community.
“So the funds from this sale go directly back into our own community,“ Kiwanis Club of Fairbanks President Michael Ladouceur said. ”We don’t have anything outside of the Fairbanks North Star Borough at this point that we contribute to. Every now and then if there’s a large organization or a natural disaster or something like that, we might make a donation towards the youth of that, that they’d be focusing on. That’s the main, that’s the main goal of the Kiwanis Club, is to make sure that, you know, the youth of the community is helped.”
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