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Coastal Federation invites community to deck its halls

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For the North Carolina Coastal Federation’s first holiday season in the Fred and Alice Stanbeck Coastal Education Center, the organization is inviting the community to recycle nautical-themed items to decorate the center.

“We were having a staff meeting talking about what we wanted to do for the holidays and Tracy [Skrabal] and Mike [Giles] came up with the idea of making it a community effort and seeing if we can continue the theme of repurposing, reusing and recycling,” said Ted Wilgis, coastal federation coastal education coordinator.

The exterior of the building will be wrapped in a holiday nautical garland constructed of recycled items like fishing line, buoys, life rings and shells.

Decorating will begin Monday, Dec. 1, from 3-5 p.m. and the display will remain throughout the holiday season.

“Monday will kick it off with the hanging of the garland, which will be a blank slate for people to add to, and then we will start the interior decorating that afternoon, which will be a little more traditional,” Wilgis said. “We are trying to make sure people understand Monday is the kick-off day, but we really hope people will drop by any time to contribute to it.”

So far the Harbor Island Garden Club has contributed wreaths to the federation’s decorations and Wilgis said those interested could bring additional recycled nautical items to decorate any time.

“We are just trying to make it a community effort to represent how much the community has given to the house and center,” Wilgis said.

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