Trees for Troops – The Cornwall Local

Community helps ‘deliver the spirit of Christmas’

December 6, 2023 Mary Jane Pitt

This week ten years ago, The Cornwall Local reported that Farmside Acres, a Christmas tree farm located on Angola Rd. in Cornwall had collected 200 Christmas trees to be donated to American servicemen and women and their families.

Trees for Troops an annual holiday tradition

November 14, 2019 Ken Cashman

Tree-loading day has become a community event. Some kids get out of school on the morning when the trucks arrive at Farmside Acres…

Nearly 800 trees collected for military families

November 30, 2018 Jason Kaplan

In the last 10 years, thousands of Christmas trees have been donated in support of the Trees for Troops program. On Monday, Farmside Acres celebrated a decade of collecting trees for the cause. Close to

Four hundred trees shipped to troops

November 30, 2015 Ken Cashman

Since 2009, Bob Nannini has used his property on Angola Road as a drop-off point for Christmas trees going to troops on active duty.

Kids Korner

November 12, 2015 Ken Cashman

Katherine DiLillo won the Cornwall Lions Club Peace Poster contest with Quinn Andrews the runner-up. Both girls are in the seventh grade.

Stacking strategy fits trees in truck

December 6, 2013 Ken Cashman

As the FedEx truck pulled into Farmside Acres, Leigh Rivas turned to her father with a question. “What’s the strategy?” she asked