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Lights, Camera, Adoration as Sugar Bear Gleams

A picture of the U.S. Capitol Christmas tree lit up in front of the U.S. Capitol.
This year Michael Mavris, a fifth grader from Del Norte, California who won a poetry contest about the US Capitol Christmas tree got the honors of flipping the switch that officially illuminated Sugar Bear. For over 50 years the USDA Forest Service’s Christmas gift to the nation, the US Capitol Christmas…
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