A Christmas tree seller describes a poor season: "It is disheartening for me but it has also affected the crafters who sell their wares on site, some who have reported sales down 60 to 70 per cent. I cried a lot last week." A portion of her sales is donated to Juan de Fuca Search and Rescue, so a drop in sales means less funds for the rescue group as well. [Mr.] Olender, partner Julie Holsworth [and] son Henry Olender came by on the Friday afternoon looking for a tree, preferring one about six feet tall.
Written from the article text only. Where the scan is hard to read, the summary was taken from the page image rather than the OCR.
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“Hundreds of Christmas trees at Luxton Hall still looking for a home” Not recorded in the catalogue — read from the clipping image. Check it against the clipping below before quoting it.
A minor item, but it records something the tree-chipping notices in this archive only imply: that the team's Christmas-tree fundraising depends on a seasonal retail trade, and that a bad year for the seller is a bad year for the team's funds. This page was recovered from inside the ProQuest bulk export already held in the archive, where it had been listed as referenced but not held.
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The full page. The article region could not be verified automatically, so the whole page is shown rather than risk a clipping that cuts off the article. the whole page is shown; the article region within it has not been isolated.
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ProQuest — the scanned page in the Times Colonist digital archive ↗subscription or library card Recorded exactly as captured, including the Greater Victoria Public Library proxy address — it needs a GVPL card or a ProQuest subscription. Without one, search ProQuest for the document ID in the address. This link opens through the Greater Victoria Public Library and asks for a library card number before showing the page. Cards are free for Greater Victoria residents — sign up on the GVPL site; an online temporary card is enough for the digital databases. Outside Greater Victoria, ask your own library whether it offers the ProQuest Times Colonist archive. http://search.proquest.com.proxy.gvpl.ca/pdntimescolonist/newspapers/december-242022-page-a5/docview/2761400377/sem-2?accountid=6051
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This is a full newspaper page and carries unrelated stories as well as the article summarised here. The text is the OCR made from the ProQuest bulk export during the 2026 research phase, not a fresh pass. Recovered from page 44 of the bulk export. The tree seller's name was not legible in the recovered text.
Record id 2022-12-24-times-colonist-pa5-page-scan. Original file in the project archive: 02_articles/2026-07-16_proquest_bulk_export_50_articles_2012-2026.pdf (page 46).
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