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Article: Christmas tree makes comeback: City council restores evergreen's name.
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- The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, WI)
- Article date:
- October 25, 2006
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Byline: Larry Sandler
Oct. 25--O Christmas tree, O Christmas tree, thy name is not unchanging.
Maybe it was the chill in the air that had aldermen thinking about Christmas in October, but the Milwaukee Common Council voted 9-5 Tuesday to rename the large green object in Red Arrow Park as the city's "Christmas tree," dumping the "holiday tree" label that has been used since 1995.
That action was praised by a Christian group in Florida and condemned by an atheist organization in Madison.
Aldermen uprooted the measure from a council committee, where it had been planted for 10 months. Aldermen Jim Bohl and Terry Witkowski had introduced ...