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4 December 2009 | Posted inBlog News & Updates

All Aboard!

The HOK St Louis office has been quite busy lately. So busy, some may say, we’ve been just a Chuggin-Along. Asked by one of our clients, Peabody Energy, to design a tree for inclusion in the Children’s Holiday Festival, we happily hopped on board (man, the puns just keep coming!)

The Children’s Holiday Festival is an annual event to benefit St Louis Children’s Hospital, one of the premier children’s hospitals in the United States. Trees are elaborately decorated and then auctioned off to the highest bidder. The winner gets to take home the tree and the hospital gets a bump in funding.

Peabody Tree

The theme for the tree this year …

A Few Dozen Slices

The memories of family camping trips are still a source of strength for me. I remember my first time quite vividly, kind of like the first time I drank a cup of water. Waking up early in the morning. Climbing into the back seat of the car. Getting something to eat – probably Tim Horton’s. We’d drive and drive and drive, until we finally stopped. I didn’t really know where we were, but there were some trees there. The rush of blood to my feet from running to the washroom always made me feel all tingly inside after a long car ride. I think we ate some kind of food, maybe played …