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Article: Tree dealers wait for holiday spirit to hit; Sales vary, but some merchants say warm weather keeping buyers away.(NEWS)
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- Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
- Article date:
- December 8, 1998
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Clarification published 12/12/98: This article should have said that Tom Tweit was working at a Boy Scout Christmas tree lot in West St.
Paul.
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Melinda Smith and her son Brian, 10, were lone shoppers in rows of balsam firs at the Boy Scouts Trees lot on Lexington Avenue in St. Paul.
"Once we walked in and smelled the Christmas trees, it felt like Christmas," she said Friday.
"Yeah," Brian said. "All we need is snow."