The IMU will welcome some foliage this week when Campus Activities Board sponsors the annual Festival of Trees. On Monday morning, the student organization transformed 30 trees with a flurry of decoration. The trees can be viewed in the Hubbard Commons through Friday.

After that, they will be displayed during the Fine Art Council’s Holiday Thieves’ Market in the IMU. Between 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Saturday and 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Dec. 6, shoppers can bid on the displayed trees while browsing the market’s handcrafted pieces. The auction winners will be called Dec. 6 to arrange a pickup time.

“All of the auction money is going to the Johnson County Crisis Center,” said junior Alexis Nguyen, the Campus Activities Board tradition director. “We’re volunteering our time to decorate so we can give it something for the holidays.”

— by Tessa Solomon