In one of Youngstown's annual events, a donated tree is taken downtown to be decorated for the upcoming holiday season. At top, Ruth Long snaps a picture as a 36-foot Colorado blue spruce is taken

In one of Youngstown's annual events, a donated tree is taken downtown to be decorated for the upcoming holiday season. At top, Ruth Long snaps a picture as a 36-foot Colorado blue spruce is taken from the front of her Pinehurst Avenue home and loaded onto a flatbed truck. At left, Marty Martin, an employee of Diamond Steel Construction Co., Boardman, gives directions to the crane operator who was putting the tree on the truck.