Bay City downtown businesses offering Christmas wreaths to lucky shoppers

It took Christie Killey 20 minutes to paint a tiny toy soldier onto a saxophone reed. But once she got the hang of it, decorating the remaining reeds adorning Herter Music Center’s Christmas wreath went smoothly. “Once I knew what the soldiers looked like the rest of the project took as long as the first reed,” said Killey, a Linwood resident and employee at Herter Music Center, 901 Washington Ave. “Hopefully someone who loves saxophones is the winner.” Herter Music is one of 32 downtown businesses this year that created a one-of-a-kind wreath for The Festival of Wreaths. Shoppers have a chance to win one on Dec. 19.

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