By: Jordyn Cooper 

     The holidays are here, which means all your favorite holiday treats are in season. There are numerous different recipes to try out, although you can never go wrong with store bought desserts if you do not have time to make your own.  

By: Dillon Benson 

     The debate between decorating for Christmas with a real or artificial tree has a long and interesting history. According to www.dotcomwomen.com , 1882 is when people first started decorating, what we call, “real” Christmas trees. This is when Edward H. Johnson patented the use of electric lights on a string to decorate a tree. Although decorating real trees has been around for a while now, before that artificial trees were common. According to Wikipedia, “These first trees were wooden, tree-shaped pyramids lit by candles. They were developed in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, by the German Moravian Church in 1747.” Artificial trees were used long before real trees became popular…