When the Colorado blue spruce that Bill and Deanna Ellingson planted almost 30 years ago in their front yard in Roseville stretched too tall for them to easily string holiday lights around it, they came up with a clever solution:

“I got a couple of projectors and projected lights up on the tree and the neighbors seemed to really like that,” Bill says.

The neighbors are in for a bigger light show this year for the approximately 40- to 45-foot evergreen: The tree has been chosen as the 2025 Union Depot Holiday Tree.

The neighbors — and everyone else — are invited to attend the annual Holiday Tree Lighting and Movie Night at Union Depot in Lowertown on Saturday, Dec. 6. For those who can’t wait for their holiday cheer, the annual Salvation Army “Tree of Lights” — a digital tree — is being

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