A little elf helps set up the Frosty Country Christmas tree at the Augusta Elks Club Festival of Trees Sunday afternoon. Some 25 trees, with a wide variety of themes, will be on display during the festival, which is 3-8 p.m. Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, Dec. 6-8, and 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Friday and Saturday, Dec. 10 and 11. Admission is $2, and tree raffle tickets are available for an additional fee. Attendees put tickets in containers for trees they’d like to win. Winners get the entire tree, what’s on it and what’s below it. Proceeds benefit the ongoing Colonial Theater restoration project, as well as Elks programs. Festival includes hot chocolate, cider, photos with Santa and more. For more information, visit the Augusta Elks Club Facebook event. Below, the Maine Crime Writers tree, which has more than two dozen crime and mystery novels, among other gifts, is one of the trees featured at the Augusta Elks Festival of Trees. Bottom, a variety of businesses, organizations and families set up trees Sunday. (Maureen Milliken photos)


