With two days of November remaining, it was beginning to look a lot like Christmas on Friday morning as dozens of volunteers from the Rotary Club of Nashua and the Interact Club from Nashua High School South set up hundreds of Christmas trees for sale in Somerset Plaza.

The clubs’ annual Christmas tree fundraiser began Friday afternoon. The profits will help support the clubs’ activities.

“When you buy your Christmas tree from the Rotary Club of Nashua, you will be giving money to help fund the club’s international projects, community grants and scholarship program,” Rotary Club President Charlie Hall said.

“Rotarians and their family members will volunteer many hours between Thanksgiving and Christmas selling trees to raise money for community projects.”

Club members unloaded about 900 Christmas trees on Friday morning and are expecting another shipment of 700-800 trees in two weeks, Hall said.

“We pretty much sell out every year,” he said. “Some people have bought their trees from us for 30 years.”

Hall said some families have even passed down the tradition of buying a Christmas tree from the Rotary Club of Nashua through the generations.

Norm Bouthilette, of Brookline, helped unload Christmas trees from a flatbed truck Friday morning.

“I think it’s important to give back,” Bouthilette said, “because the community gives back to us all the time.”

As Bouthilette unloaded Christmas trees, other volunteers chipped in by erecting advertising signs and building stands to hold the trees.

Students such as Jimmy Trinh, 17, and Ricky Thai, 14, from the Interact Club pitched in by helping to unload and remove netting from Christmas trees. The Interact Club is for students ages 12-18, and is affiliated with the Rotary Club of Nashua.

The Rotary Club of Nashua sold Christmas trees along Route 101A at the former site of Kessler Farm for nearly three decades. This year, the trees will be in front of the Market Basket on Route 101A.

Trees are on sale from 1-9 p.m. Mondays-Fridays and 9 a.m.-9 p.m. Saturdays.

Trees are also on sale at Hayward’s Ice Cream and various other locations in the city.

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