Giving Trees, Fireman's Toybox wrap up season

With Christmas fast approaching, the Giving Trees around Colfax are wrapping up and preparing to distribute presents.

Whitman County Developmental Services Department program coordinator Janel Goebel told the Gazette Tuesday that the department's trees have finished, and she is now preparing to distribute gifts.

“There aren't any stockings left on those trees,” she said. “The trees are down now.”

Goebel said the three trees her department had set up – at the Whitman County Courthouse, the Public Service Building and at Boost Collaborative in Pullman – were able to serve 65 people. Those trees...