<a href="http://www.yourislandnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/Christmas-tree1.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-4513" title="Christmas tree1" src="http://www.yourislandnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/Christmas-tree1-150x150.jpg" alt="" width="150" height="150" /></a>• The Beaufort Council of Garden Clubs, in collaboration with the City of Beaufort, will be planting Golden Rain Trees in the newly named Neils Christensen Park at Pigeon Point on Arbor Day,  Friday, December 2 at 10 a.m. The trees are to honor Arbor Day as well as to mark the historic 300th anniversary of Beaufort.

• On Saturday, December 10 at noon at the Beaufort National Cemetery, the national organization of Wreaths Across America Project will be placing wreaths during a ceremony honoring our heroes buried at the cemetery. The wreaths represent the U.S. Navy, U.S. Marine Corps, U.S. Army, U.S. Air Force, U.S. Coast Guard, U.S. Merchant Marines and POW/MIA. Wreaths can be sponsored by going to www.wreathsacrossamerica.org or contact Theresa Raley Trillo at 843-729-8291.