Festival of Trees hits record crowd

A record crowd filled the main room of the Boys & Girls Club of the Hi-Line on Saturday night for the annual Festival of the Trees.

This year's celebration - the eighth in the club's history - was entitled "Home for the Holidays."

Because of the success of past festivals, the club was recently able to make an addition to its 1st Street building for a massive all-purpose room large enough for the crowd of 260 people at the event.

Two-hundred-sixty tickets were printed. They were all purchased, said Krista Solomon, head of the HELP Committee, the club's parent group.

And there was still room to...