Salida Sunrise Rotary Gets Ready for Holiday Park  

The Salida Sunrise Rotary Club is excited to announce we will be coordinating Holiday Park this year.  This wonderful Community Tradition for Salida is the annual event that lets anyone adopt a Christmas tree at Riverside Park to decorate for their business or non-profit or to remember loved ones. Proceeds from the park are used to fund scholarships.

Friday, October 16^th, Adoption Application Cards were sent to all 2019 Holiday Park participants to encourage participation again this year.  Additional Adoption Application Cards are also available at the Salida Chamber of Commerce, 406 West US Highway 5, Salida or by downloading the Application Form on this website.  

This year’s coordinators are Janet Franz and Cecil Rhodes.  According to Rhodes, “a huge THANK YOU goes to ‘the Sisterhood’ who have created a hugely popular annual event, and they have provided us with tremendous support to help guide us in the planning of this year’s event.”

Holiday Park will continue as it has in the past with individuals being able to “Adopt a Tree” through the Adoption Application Cards being distributed or by filling out a form found in The Mountain Mail.  Anyone with questions about Tree Adoption can call Julie Richardson at (913) 209-3960. Completed Adoption Application Cards may be mailed back to PO Box 1092, Salida, CO.

Anyone interested in helping as a volunteer can call Cecil Rhodes at (214) 493-8157.  Volunteers are helpful in setting up and taking down.  At 9 a.m. Nov. 2 volunteers will take the trees from the Touber Building to Riverside Park. At 9 a.m. Nov. 3 and 10 a.m. Nov. 4 volunteers will check the trees to make sure the lights work.  “If someone has extra hours and would like to help, we’d appreciate it,” Rhodes said. 

This year, Holiday Park will comply with all the Chaffee County Public Health Guidelines. 

The Salida Sunrise Rotary Club gives a special thank you to Altamont Landscaping, Chris Lake of Collegiate Peak Electric, The Mountain Mail, and the Salida High School Students for helping with Holiday Park.