Travis and Reon, both 10, and Hadlee Priddle, 9, of Pleasant Point get ready to walk their Christmas tree home. A Pleasant Point pest management company has raised $9000 for a youth and community focused support group by selling unwanted pest trees. High Country Contracting (HCC) staff members gathered about 200 of the invasive wilding pine trees and sold them for $25 a piece in the South Canterbury township on Saturday. He said the team chose I Am Hope because the company was made up of a “whole lot of young people”. “We are always talking about mental health at work.”Adam said there had been an ongoing joke at work that wilding pines make good Christmas trees.

Source: Stuff December 06, 2020 02:15 UTC